This will be a different blog. Today I'll leave out tantalizing ways to lose and keep weight off. I won't bore you with Kincaid-like photos of this great country. No, today the winds of talk lead me to something entirely different.And that is: where in the heck is this country going? We were once so firmly secured by family values, church, competition and vision. We looked to the horizon of endless fortune instead of looking at the toes of despair. Where yesterday was filled with ideas and today filled with activity and tomorrow reaped the results. Now, it seems we have collectively forgotten why this country came into being in the first place, individual freedom to make life the way we want it.
Change is a good thing in moderation and it continues a pattern of individual growth and freedom. Such as, getting the education needed to gain a skill to make more money. Such as, changing appearance from goth to business dress. Such as, changing an attitude of selfish-ness to an attitude of giving-ness. Done on a societal basis raises all our boats. It's contagious. You see your neighbor doing well will make you want to achieve also. This nation was built on this type of rugged individualism. I fear however that we are now in a different change.
A change so radical from our roots that it may lead to a more devasting change. We are now a nation of dependant victims. We have become who we are not by choice but by some injustice done to us. Lawyers and men in black robes now decide for us what we will need to be, not happy, but somehow equally disappointed. What kind of vision is that? Why would you want to give up the decisions that make your life the way you want it and give it to some unknown government worker in a cubicle in a grey and decrepit office building in a town far away? Is this the legacy given to us by the greatest generation of all? Is this why George Washington crossed the Delaware? The War for Southern Independance was fought to prevent a national government unfettered by State's Rights to force its will upon the citizens. The South fought for the Constitution.Change is good. We now have a black president. Good. We all hope he is successful in all the areas that the Constitution allows a president to work. Secure our borders. Protect us from enemies both foreign and domestic. Protect and defend the Constitution. I firmly want him to fail in implementing policies that lead us all to a future of chained obeisance to a national government. That change is not good. That change leads to suffering. That change leads to mediocrity. That change may lead to, yes, armed revolt.
The United States became the greatest country ever seen because we freed the people to dream and to become the person they wanted to become unfettered by useless rules and laws. Free to invent the wares benefiting all of mankind; medicines, air conditioning, heating, indoor plumbing to mention a few. Incentives that made people rich but also advanced the well being of us all. I don't want to change that.
I'm betting that I'll not be alone after this storm of change has passed.
