Every day it seems we wake up to more bad and distressing news about the economy and events in our nation and world. Things are becoming increasingly more complex and difficult to process and discernment between what is happening and what we are told is happening is an inexact science at best. I believe that is part of the point of what our government is trying to do in order to keep us walking around like a bunch of Eeyore's and focusing on poor me and how much worse can it get rather than actually seeing the rug being pulled and tugged right out from underneath our feet and us perhaps trying to resist. No government or system ever devised is perfect, but we have been living in the greatest country on earth with a robust economic system and now we are watching as the "magicians" in Washington abracadabra it away at alarming speed disregarding all rules, laws, and regulations or rewriting some of them to suit their purposes. There is much at play behind the scenes that the little people, which would be us, do not see or know nothing about, but the powers that be have been working a long while across party lines and many presidencies toward their goals and our best interests are not theirs. I am saddened and grieving at the rapidly accelerating takedown of our free market economy made even simpler when private companies grab government handouts that are never provided without a spider web of strings and conditions. Witness GM, Chrysler, banks, and many more who drank the kool-aid and took the money and now are being told exactly how high and where to hop, skip, and jump....all the way to bankruptcy with full government control. Guess Ford had a better idea in not jumping on the handouts bandwagon because they alone seem poised to make it through the storm without surrendering totally to Big Brother. People are chosen for jobs, such as Sonya Sotomayor as nominee for a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, based on their ethnicity, gender, and radical agendas which includes using their job to enact social change rather than strictly interpret the law. Whatever happened to looking for the best possible candidate for the job? This woman has a high percentage of her rulings overturned because she does not seem to understand the cases on her docket. Each day sees more bricks crumbling and a weakening of the wall that is our economic system. Why does our government insist on trying to experiment with failed centralized and socialist systems of operation? The answer lies in finding the lowest common denominator in human nature and the quest for power and riches for the few at the top while the rest of us are just commodities to be used at will and discarded. Why else do we need universal health care? Am I too stupid to be able to make my own decisions regarding my own health? This is just a way to become totally intrusive in our personal lives. We have been sliding down the slippery slope for a long time, just as the frog placed in a pan of water on the stove does not realize it is boiling to death until it is too late due to the gradual increase of the temperature of the water. There is total regression here on social issues crescendoing to the point that what was formerly unacceptable is now the norm. Television is a prime example of this as many people are saturated with sexual innuendo and blatant overt images and dialogue that would have been unthinkable decades before. Being 59, my standards of decency from the "stone age" would seem prudish to even young conservatives today. I grew up in the infancy of tv and "I Love Lucy" and "Andy Griffith" are light years away from Homer Simpson and Southpark, not to mention Desperate Housewives where I dropped my jaw when one of my sweet 6th graders told me that she and her mom watched it together when I asked if her mom was aware that she saw that program. Yikes!
I guess I just want my country back, one where I rode my bicycle all over my little town without my parents worrying that I would be kidnapped and tortured by a sexual deviant, where I could listen to music (yeah, I admit, the Beatles were scandalous at the time), watch tv, read a book, all of those things without saturating my mind with unhealthy and obscene drivel. I like a place where opportunities to achieve your goals and reach for the stars were commonplace, even though there was always the possibility for failure as well. That's life, a series of ups and downs. We are either going into a valley or coming out of one...but there were always hope, dreams, possibilities. Political correctness was unheard of and Bucky Covington's song about a different world when we were young was the way things still were.
I am searching for ways that I can make a difference for now and for the future in tangible and nontangible ways.
"If my people, who are called by name, will humble themselves and turn from their wicked ways, I will forgive their sins and heal their land."
Pray, pray, pray, and follow His leading! There is always hope!
~clg~
