Many families follow the old etiquette teaching: Three things civilized people don’t talk about – Politics, Religion, and Money. How dull! Not to mention how dumb! Our home has never been like that. The Stephenson Family has always been both opinionated and vocal.
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“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America ‘s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America ‘s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, “the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”
SURPRISE!
~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006
“The common sense and common decency of ordinary men and women, working out their own lives in their own way – this is the heart of American conservatism today.
Conservative wisdom and principles are derived from willingness to learn, not just from what is going on now, but from what has happened before.” — Ronald Reagan, A New Republican Party speech, 1977.
Of course they are. They are being taught that it is the government’s job to take care of them. They are being taught that it is okay to only think about “me, me, me” and that they deserve everything and needn’t earn it. That they can mooch off their parents until they are old enough to mooch off the ‘system.’
Okay, I’m exaggerating, right? Not really. They are being led into the government mindset then it’s food trough. Some businesses and ‘ethical’ interests are paying big bucks to lead them in this direction and that. And now, to add insult to injury: while anything Christian is being demonized and removed from the public arena, the precepts and attitudes of those who hate our country are being foisted on our youth and the young adults in the collegiate atmosphere.
Baloney? Conspiracy nut? Take a look at the video by clicking on the link below:
Do your own homework. Our country is being snatched out from under us, at least that is it will be if we don’t wake up.
I could not force myself to watch last night. Mr. Obama is the consummate politician and his speech was exactly what I thought it would be, he was campaigning.
He says so many things that just sound great, that sound so right, until you think it all the way through, which only a few people seem willing to do.
It was a long speech and there is much to be discussed about it. Let me suggest that you read a transcript of it, reading the words helps to bring out what is really being said without the emotion elicited by a slick charismatic speaker. It is also worth reading a transcript of the GOP rebuttal speech, and some of the Fact Checking done on the SOU.
For now I want to focus on one statement: Last night, Obama said, “The executive branch also needs to change. Too often, it’s inefficient, outdated and remote. That’s why I’ve asked this Congress to grant me the authority to consolidate the federal bureaucracy so that our Government is leaner, quicker, and more responsive to the needs of the American people.”
He is talking about doing away with the Constitutionally established format of our government. The “checks and balances” of the system that protect us from tyranny. Those “Cs & Bs” are the only things that protect us from a potential dictator or government sponsored police state.
Make it “leaner, quicker and more responsive” and the people in power can make any changes they want without any input from “We the people” at all. Take a moment and remember how Obama, Reid and Pelosi rammed ‘ObabaCare’ and several other things through without the Nation’s consent before he proposed these changes. What could happen if the President gets his way in this?
Understand me, I am not stating that the people in government are doing this right now. But the things they are doing are pushing us in a direction that will allow that to happen in the future if the wrong person or group of people decide to seize power. Once we start on the slide it becomes nearly impossible to stop – inertia rules without remorse.
We are just a few hours away from President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union Address. On the pessimistic side, all I am expecting is a Campaign Speech.
Perhaps I am being naive when I say that I really am hoping for the president to address some of the genuine issues in our country since he took office. Things like:
So Much to Hope For
Now, is that really asking too much?
PS: Thanks Larry
