America the Beautiful

Sitting on the sofa, believing the story I was going to write about today was firmly entrenched in my mind and the notes jotted down on a legal pad, I began to type out my thoughts about our economy status, giving my opinions on what several talking heads had said or wrote about the .2 percent drop in unemployment. Something kept nagging me to stop and not write that story, well after a few paragraphs I did stop. I want to talk about our country as a whole, why I think the problems America has is due to drop in values and family. America has been in a steady moral decline for a long while now. Televisions, Video Games,Computers, and the almighty dollar seem to run the lives of everyone these days. Not to say these things don't have their benefits. There is very little interaction in the communities, as there were in simpler time, anymore. Neighbors used to know all their neighbors, helped when times were rough, and were just basically all around good friends almost like family. It is like dog eat dog now, everyone for himself and to hell with anyone. It's not about the good of the community, it's about the good of "ME". When communities come together and form bonds, thats good for the country, people talk more, more information is deseminated to individual who might now have heard that news story, who might have a different opinion on it. They do not have to have the media, each I might add with its own political agenda, tell them what to think, how to think it, and how to act on it.
Another thing is Americans have let the government have too much control, and we have allowed complete elitists to run it. When I say, "Elitists", I am referring to the belief and mindset that certain persons or members of certain classes or groups deserve favored treatment by virtue of their perceived superiority, as in intellect, social status, or financial resources. There wasn't even a word for this belief, even though this frame of mind is centuries old, until around 1950. Elitism favors only favors a small percentage of the people, the rest are basically workers that need to get a job done so more money is funneled into the Elitists' hands.

America was not founded upon democracy, it was actually founded as a Republic. In a Republic the sovereignty is in each individual, in a democracy, the sovereignty is in the majority. Most people will say well the good of the larger portion or group is more important than the individual. Well that, to me, is only partially true. See in a republic you can't have your right taken from you, because the sovereignty RESTS with each INDIVIDUAL. In larger group rule, democracy, an individuals rights can be completely trampled on by a group who thinks those rights do not matter, at least not to that group. Our forefathers understood this, and that is the reason America was founded a republic. Im not sure we could ever get that back now, unless every single american stood together, arm in arm-hand in hand, against our government.  Our government has become corrupt by the greed and power. It no longer makes it's decisions on what is best for the people, instead it makes them on what is best for the few who p ut money in their pockets. We have the right to abolish our government per the constition- "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." , course anyone with thoughts of this now would be labeled a terrorist. We have no rights anymore, only rights we have is to get up, goto work, make money for a few, and come home and struggle to raise children in a society that has been forced to give up God.

That is the biggest problem, the government has taken God out of everything. Non Believers have all the say so, if something offends ONE parent in a school system what ever the offense is will be taken away. If one single person is offended by a picture or biblical quote that might be publicly visible in a governmental property it's taken away. NO prayers in school. Taking God out of America is absolutely the main instigator to ALL the problems we now face. If you go back and look at the rulings against prayer, signs, anything God like in schools, courthouses, etc.by more and more liberal judges, you will see a rise in crime, governmental abuses, decaying social morals, lack of family values. God was the cornerstone in founding this country, period. We prospered beyond measure when we allowed him in our government, schools, etc. we decline when God is taken out.

We each have a responsiblity to god, family, friends, neighbors, and Country to re-institute core values into our government. DO NOT vote the same people into congress or senate. IF EVERY SINGLE member of the house and senate were replaced, you'd see some shock factor go on and maybe, just maybe the people of America would run their country again. Because as of right now, we do not. Government thinks the People are too stupid to run their own affairs, as was evident by how angry and shocked members where when they had all those debates and public forums last summer. HOW dare the people of' America contradict me, is what they thought when a few stood up and asked hard questions and gave blunt, honest, from the heart opinions. They couldn't believe we would have the gall to do something like that. That my friends is the attitude of Elitism.