2010: AN AMERICAN ODYSSEY

 
This is the time of the year, every year, where we look to the future, set our sights forward and pray for peace and prosperity.


I’m sure there are few Americans who are not glad to see 2009 go under the bridge. Yet, the pieces of that troubling year are the foundation for this year ahead of us and we all know that the signs are ominous. I’m not going to belabor the heavy leftovers from 2009, such as the crappy legislation the Senate passed on health care Christmas Eve in the face of unanimous polling that shows the overwhelming majority of Americans oppose the current bills. But, I do need to stop and look at what that piece of legislation revealed about the character of our government.

Perhaps I should say lack of character?

• Max Baucus appearing on the Senate floor in almost a total drunken stupor
• The White House warning Senator Ben Nelson that he’d better give the President a positive vote on health care or SAC Headquarters at Offutt AFB may end up on the base closure list
• Nelson saying right up to the bitter end that he was against the Bill, then voting for it after “Clean Face” Reid bribed him with $100 million of taxpayer money and let Nebraska off the Medicaid financial hook, forever
• Attempted camouflage of totally unwanted provisions of the Bill
• Kowtowing to special interests
• Name calling and talking down to the electorate
• Hiring of felons, Marxists and incompetents for positions at the highest levels of government power
• Spending, spending and spending, and failure to account to the American people for the money spent
• Stonewalling on the immigration issue
• Selling the country down the river in future tax debt for political purposes
• Lies, misinformation and disinformation

The list appears to be endless.


When you apply for a government grant, you must show what the money will be used for and how the program will operate. The government therefore knows in advance how the money will be used. The University of California at San Diego applied for and received a government grant to pinpoint the GPS coordinates of watering holes along the U.S. – Mexico border, and to provide GPS-equipped cell phones in Mexico to illegals getting ready to cross that border. The theory is that fewer will die from dehydration.

That ticks me off. Our government has been spending our great grandchildren’s money into oblivion with this type of this kind of programs? In the name of economic stimulus and economic recovery? And, the only answer we get out of Congress is that members did not have time to read the bills?

My fellow Americans, there is right now an urgent sense of need for transition back to traditional values.  As patriotic Americans who want the very best for our country, we need to rise to the occasion. We need to look at the countless things we dislike about the way our officials are running our government and we have to promise ourselves and our children and their children to exert every influence we have, both vocally and at the polls, to transform our government back into what it was and should be. We must stand together and fight this battle, because we know in our hearts that, should we fail to act now, this odyssey is not going to have a happy ending.

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.