I hope you will not misunderstand what I say here, nor think these words to be hastily written. I have been thinking about this for some time, and would like to take this opportunity to tell the NSA to kiss off. Im not a left- or right-wing nut job, not a radical, and not very political. I do believe in rule of law and get misty when the US Flag is marched by. I dont believe in closing the borders as my ancestors were immigrants, but I do not believe in throwing them open wide either. I believe that the love and care our fellow man is one of our greatest mandates. I do not judge you for your beliefs and religion, and I expect to not be judged - by anyone - for mine. I believe that if I have to get a drug test to pay for welfare, those on it should, too. I believe that anyone should be able to get temporary assistance, when needed, but everyone should be educated and equipped to work. I believe all should be held fully accountable, from the highest office holder, to the sports figure, to the lowest laborer. I believe it is too easy for our elected officials to knowingly lie and not be responsible for their actions. I believe that a nation spying on its own people displays a totalitarian rule, not republic rule. I believe that our country is still the greatest in the world, but we should not have to pay the world to exist or apologize for that existence. I believe our food supply, communication and transportation infrastructures should be invested in, and guarded, above all else. I believe that we should help other countries when the need is great, and only when the need is great. I do not pity a population that will not throw off its own repressive government, nor do I feel that it is our place to do it. I believe that the best way to get people back to work is to put them to work and make it possible and profitable to do so. I believe our country made the greatest strides when we were dedicated to a real national goal that was important, not halfheartedly talking about a pie-in-the-sky wish. If you are serious about changing something, you will research it, fund it and give people the opportunity to use it, not ram it down their throats. After all, mandating regulations and taxes instead of listening to the populous did not turn out well for King George III, either. I believe that we should stay out of the business and wars of other countries, but be prepared to knock the snot out of them if they mess in ours. I do not believe in a long, protracted occupation, but I do believe in leveling a country if they really want to pick a fight. I believe emphasis should be put on higher education in the STEM areas. I believe that higher education should be held responsible for siphoning money from students of useless degree programs. I believe that if we have an 13-year education system that requires most people to get an additional 2-6 years of education on their own dime that we need to fix it. I believe that emphasis should be put equally on the technical trades that are so important to the viability of our country. I am proud that we were able to land man on the moon with what amounted to 3 gum wrappers and a pocket calculator, but I am afraid that we would kill them if we tried to do that today. I believe that as law abiding citizens, we should expect a certain amount of freedom from any search without cause, regardless of location. I believe that the open spying of our government on our populace displays a total disregard for the freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution and a total lack of respect for the men and women that have died defending that Constitution. I believe in the process of election and the rule of law. I believe the willful breaking of any law by our elected officials and those in their service, regardless of the reasoning, can not be tolerated. I could go on, but the important thing is that the older I get, the more frustrated I feel that this Grand Old Country is not quite what the Founding Fathers had in mind. I do not know exactly what they thought, but I have read every word in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution several times, and I feel that they left us a part of themselves in these two great documents. Under Article V of the Constitution, there is a process that allows the people to work within their states and elicit change in the national government when the national government refuses to do it. This is a process that should be entered into with a great deal of seriousness and a very healthy respect of the process and our history. I wish we did not need to do this, but I would rather see this than another civil war: conventionofstates/
Posted on: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 01:09:09 +0000
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