When The Cure Is Worse Than The Disease

As we count down the days to the election, I'm troubled by much of what I have seen and heard. I'm troubled more by what I haven't seen and haven't heard.

What I haven't seen or heard much about is America. I've heard a lot about the economy. I've heard a lot about governmental expansions, moving toward a one world bank, but haven't heard much about border security or illegal immigration.

I wonder if we will have a 2012 election. I came across a document put out by Islamic fascists that said by 2012 they will have control of America. You may be aware that the ancient Mayans forecast that the world will end in 2012. The first threat is real; the other a maybe.

We have taken incredible steps to shore up or bail out companies that mismanaged their resources and created this financial mess. We've given more power to the politicians who along with these companies created the lack of oversight and back room deals that took our country to the brink of disaster. CEOs and lobbyists and crooked politicians that consciously or unconsciously made this mess now have the power to make it even worse. To me it seems we have put the foxes in control of the chicken house and expect them to take care of things - that just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

I've talked to a lot of folks that blame the Democrats for the problem, all the way from President Carter through Clinton and up to House Speaker Pelosi, Barney Franks and the rest. I've talked to a lot of folks that put everything on Bush's front step. I've heard that it was the corrupt CEOs and corrupt politicians, yet the CEOs seemed to have skirted prosecution and the politicians are still in power. Change seems to be the buzz word for today and honestly I'm ready for a change. I've lost faith with most of the folks you and I have elected to represent us. I've lost faith with most of the news media. I've lost faith in some of the talk radio folks. The only things I have not lost faith in are the American people and the good Lord.

When I left home as a young adult to go to college, I made a decision. Never again in my life would I take Milk of Magnesia. Mother gave me MoM often as a child and I HATED IT WITH A PASSION, even though it was supposedly good for me. Her mother gave her and her sisters Castor Oil each Saturday just to insure they were regular. My mother no longer takes Castor Oil either. There are times when the cure is simply worse than the disease.

The "cure" of technology is an example of this. In my opinion we have too much of it. It makes us think we're smarter and better than those that came before us. We are losing our God given common sense. The reality is the golden age of philosophy was ancient Greece. Another reality is that human nature has not changed; we just have more gadgets to occupy us and make us feel better. They give us the illusion that we are smarter.

So who is looking out for our best interests? Most of our legally elected officials are no longer representing their constituents' best interests - they are representing their own. Neither major political party has put forth a presidential candidate that has a stated and documented primary goal of being the safety and sovereignty of this country. Our energy plan is still tied to oil - we have oil but can't get to it thanks to the environmentalists. We're giving money away as part of our foreign policy but not getting support back from our "friends. One good thing is coming from this turmoil - people are waking up and getting involved. Who knows, if we have enough time left, we might actually be able to get something accomplished for the long term.

The reality is that our borders are not in any better shape than they were in early September 2001. Airport security is more of a problem for American citizen passengers than it is for terrorists. The FBI and Homeland Security have both identified that we have Islamic terrorist in this country but can't say that because it is profiling!

We have Illegal Immigrants bankrupting our cities and states by stealing services that our own citizens can access. We can't call them Illegal as that might hurt their feelings. We have folks south of our southern border (and some in our own country) that believe Texas, California and the entire southwest still belongs to them - even though we paid for it and/or beat them in a war.

We've have spent more money supporting illegal freeloaders (medical care, criminal prosecutions, benefits that should be made only to U.S. citizens) than we have spent in both the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The current mayor of Houston, TX, Bill White (a city that spent over 34 million dollars for illegal health care in 2006) took a half million of tax payer dollars to build an air conditioned Worker's Center for illegals. The current Texas governor, Rick Perry, built his last re-election platform on "If Washington won't secure our borders, I will." Twenty-eight days after he was re-elected he threw it all out the window. That's when Pam and I decided it was time to move to Missouri.
Springfield talk show host Vincent David Jericho talks about his experiences as a citizen in Canada watching the Canadian government go Socialist. I am seeing very similar situations occurring now in this country and it scares the blue fire out of me.

I believe it was Thomas Jefferson that said, "You elect the kind of government you deserve." Today our election process is dominated by dollars and direction from folks I no longer believe are concerned about maintaining our national identity, values, traditions and sovereignty.
Therefore, I believe it is time to begin preparing for the 2012 election (provided the Islamic Fascists and the Mayans are wrong, we might be able to have one). It is time for you and me to put aside our differences and fight for this country. City folks and farmers, college students and burger flippers, truck drivers and house wives - we "deserve" better representation that what we are getting.

I don't have a problem with a "hand up" but I have a problem with a "hand out"! I don't have a problem with immigration but have a problem with ILLEGAL immigration. I don't have a problem with scientific research but have no interests in the mating habits of leaf monkeys. I don't have a problem with a free market economy but have a problem when the market is manipulated by folks that consider you and me too stupid to figure out what's going on.

I offer this quote from the Preamble of the Declaration of Independence, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security..."

How many more years will we have to listen to fraud perpetrated by ACORN? I'm getting a little tired of that especially since half of their budget is funded by tax payer dollars.
How many more times will Washington, D.C. tell us they are turning off their switch boards, telephones and emails because we poor dumb citizens, "don't understand what is really going on and need to let us just do our jobs"?

There still exists potential for some surprises in the 2008 election. I for one believe that it's time for some alternatives to the status quo, and business as usual. The status quo is not working and you and I are getting the "business".

With Russian war ships and bombers visiting Venezuela, with Chavez now being set up as an arms manufacturer for the Russians, with China purchasing dock space along our coasts, with Iran and North Korea playing with nukes, with England establishing Sheria (Islamic) law, with the European Union experiencing an economic meltdown (and they don't have Fannie May and Freddie Mac over there).

The reality is that we have more folks waiting for America to fall than are trying to catch us.