HOW DO WE FIX OUR COUNTRY?

This Thanksgiving weekend, we’ve all been pausing to refresh ourselves, to draw a deep breath, to be with family and to recharge our batteries.  Now comes the question:  How to we recharge our country? 

If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times: “What happened to the good old days when our government worked for us?”  Therein, my friends, is the answer. 

In the good old days, we raised our children with ethics and religion.  In the good old days, we taught Civics and U.S. History in high schools.  In the good old days, we held liars, crooks and unethical people in contempt, particularly if they were in Congress; they’d never stand a chance in hell of being elected to the White House.  In the good old days, we didn’t bend or ignore the law if we didn’t like it; instead, we changed it.  In the good old days, marriage was an institution we were proud to be part of, and we worked our tails off to keep a marriage and a family together. 

We can get back to the “good old days” you know.  Of course, we do need to step off this merry-go-round of life that we are on, to get the I-Pods and Kindles out of our faces and to get our heads out of the sand.  We need to draw a deep breath and open our eyes and ears to what is going on around us.  Then, we have to go to the mirror and look at ourselves and say, “Together, we can do this.” 

It’s that simple.  Let’s get started today.  I call it, “One step at a time and one giant leap for America.” 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.