What Can You Do Something About?

Happy New Year! What did you resolve to do or not to do this year? A recent study showed most Americans were going to resolve to lose weight, exercise more, curse less, quit smoking, etc.; you know the same ole' stuff. I have resolved to not watch as many news shows and to focus on the good things we have - while we have them.

See, I have it figured like this. Israel will continue killing Hamas, until Hamas stops killing Israelites. Pakistan and India may or may not go to war (that has been a threat since I was young). In just a few days we will inaugurate our next President and find out what change is really going to be about. The Russians and the Venezuelans are still playing house down south, but no one seems to notice.

We still have open borders. We are going to bail out everyone in a leaky boat. The economy is collapsing or has collapsed. The bailout will either fix the problem or make it worse. To some God is dead; to others he is fixing to initiate the rapture. I have talked about crooked politicians who have no interests above their own and how Congress no longer cares what we the people think - and we just sent most of them back to Washington.

The Mayans, the Islamic terrorist and now Nostradamus have all predicted that 2012 will be the end, and I can't do much about any of it. See I have stood against tyranny, but we still have tyrants. I have spoken out against racism but we still have racists. I have fought for freedom, but freedom ain't free and it can be taken away at any time.

At my home however, I have a loving wife who keeps me centered. Recently, the economy hit us. We had a credit card with about four grand on it; we have never missed a payment, had it on auto pay and were even paying additional payments. Bang, we get a notice saying they were changing our interest rate from 6 percent to over 26 percent - for no reason - they were just doing it because they could. Pam fixed them and we no longer do business with them.

See that's the secret of where we are today. We have to take control, we have to get involved, we have to regain the power and we have to work together. We have to be a team; a team at work, a team at home, a team at school, a team at church. I know a lot but I don't know everything - that's why I married Pam - she does. If you don't believe it ask her, haha. Seriously, I made a good decision with her and that is part of the secret to success - making good decisions.

Someone once said, "If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you always have gotten." If you don't believe it look at Congress today. I am tired of the drama. I am tired of folks no smarter than me telling me how I should act and feel. I grew up in a world where I knew I did not understand every serious incident that occurred and that I didn't know everything but I had faith that somewhere in our government were people that did understand and did know. I've grown out of that.

I'm waiting for someone to get straight with the American people, someone that actually cares about this country.

I'm waiting for someone to say things like this again:

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so. I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress."

"Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under."

Or someone that would say things like this: "Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate."

"All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."

In the 2010 election cycles watch CNN, ABC, CBS and even FOX and you are liable to hear something like this, "An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry."

American politics had degenerated to the point that, "Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right."

See here's the problem, "There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen."

Please note, none of the statements in quotes are mine - although I do agree with them. Some are decades old, some centuries old - it has all been identified and talked about before - it just hasn't done any good. I don't care if you're Democrat or Republican - I'm looking for a real American.

Till I find one, I'm going to take care of my wife, my three dogs, one cat and the duck we have living in our lake - we call her Daffy. I'm focusing on what I can influence not on what I can't do anything about. I'm focusing on taking care of what I can take care of. Think about it, might be a good idea. I'll end with a few quotes to ponder.

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. ~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. ~Charles Krauthammer