Category: Happiness

Government Shutdown

10/5/2013

Yep, they did it folks. The House, the Senate, The President. They shutdown sections of the federal government.
I've been watching the mainstream media, from CNN to FOX. I've been watching Facebook comments and links. I've been reading and listening.
Anger, frustration, worry, fear, and a lot of finger-pointing.
So, who is to blame? Here is my take on who is to blame and how much fault do they actually carry?
The President, you bet! He's the top dog and in any business, the buck stops at the top (or should). He gave the actual order to shut it down.
The Senate, of course! It is controlled by the Democratic Party, which seems hell-bent on being against anything the Republican Party proposes.
The House, absolutely! It is controlled by the Republican Party, which seems hell-bent on being against anything the Democratic Party proposes.
The American people? Beyond a shadow of a doubt!! WE, the American People, are to blame for this shutdown. We, by whichever statistical margin you wish to cite, voted these people into office. WE BLEW IT. And, in our society today, we don't want anyone to point that out. We want to blame someone else for every problem and ailment that comes down the pike. It isn't our fault, our actions are a results of someone provoking us, hurting us, etc.....EXCEPT.................... Except what??? That is wrong. We are accountable for our actions and how we react to those around us. WE ARE. Not others.
We voted those disagreeable, arguing, belligerent, stuck-in-their-party-rut, uncompromising, salary-guaranteed, buffoons into office. We believed every word when we voted.
Maybe some of us just believed a good set of lies disguised as pretty promises, wrapped up for us to infer that they were actually working for our healthy well-being, our ability to provide for ourselves, our ability to get others to provide for us. Did you just catch that?
Are we wanting to provide for ourselves or wanting everyone else to take care of us? Did that impact your voting? Who would give you the most??
And now, some are screaming for pity because those who get the entitlements (which, are misnamed, since they are not earned at all, they are, in fact, handouts), may not be receiving them with the government shutdown. But,

WHO voted for people who would just keep handing out?
Who voted for those who would create jobs so we could feed ourselves?
Who voted for a healthcare plan which had not even been read and studied before it was approved?
Who voted to fund those who lay around in families for generations collecting government checks (i.e., taxpayer money) and food stamps, etc.?
Who voted for abortion (i.e. the killing of unborn children)? Who argues when unborn children are murdered by the murdering of their pregnant mothers -- and the file charges against a killer who killed an unborn baby?
Who vetoed an immense project known as the Keystone Pipeline which would have created jobs and used our own natural resources instead of paying for exorbitant foreign oil?
Who voted to keep the minimum wage stagnant?
Who voted for our 'leaders?'

WE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, DID. If you voted for the leaders, you voted for all these things. You and I caused this mess and we are starting to pay dearly for it. We can't blame Canada. We can't blame the European Union or China or Mexico. WE VOTED for these buffoons who, by law, continue to collect their paychecks while our government is shut down. (Granted, some are refusing their checks and some are donating checks during the shutdown to charity, but overall, they will receive their checks and pay tax on them no matter what they do with them, because, by law, they get paid.)
WE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, SHUT DOWN OUR GOVERNMENT. WE VOTED THESE SO-CALLED LEADERS INTO OFFICE - consisting of Democrats, Republicans, and a few others. WE DID THIS.
Quit finger-pointing. Accept responsibility and encourage your representatives, your senators, and your president to start listening.
Don't let skewed surveys, polls, and statistics, along with media-slanted PR pushed ideas taint your intelligent ability to discern what is right, what is wrong, and who has to be impeached, voted out, and recalled. In fact, while you're at it, let the media know we want factual reporting without bias and the personal slants of the reporters. We want stories that stick to the facts and only the facts.
Quit allowing yourselves to be entertained by the press. Their job is to report facts, not entertain.
Our job is to use the brains God gave us. We quit using them a long long time ago and it's time to quit babying ourselves and grow-up.
We caused this mess. We can stop it. It will not happen overnight. Have you ever watched a house that has been subject to a natural disaster? Repairs do not happen overnight and sometimes the building has to be brought down to its bare foundation with new strong timbers placed.

We need to go back to our constitution and read it daily and start to live what we say we believe in. Here is the full transcript: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html .
Pledge Allegiance to Your Flag, not your leaders. ""I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Read the history of our Pledge through the years at this link: http://www.ushistory.org/documents/pledge.htm .
Remind yourself daily of the words coming from our Declaration of Independence: "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" You may read the full text here: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html .

To quote Woody Guthrie's song, "This land is your land, this land is my land." WE, who come from so many different ethnic backgrounds, need to work for our fellow man as well as ourselves.
Our constitution guarantees each of us life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It does not promise us utopia; it allows each individual to pursue whatever his or happiness goal is. It allows us our lives and our liberty. That is tantamount to granting us the ability to work and provide for ourselves, it does not say giving it all to those who don't want to work. It seems today that some (many) in our society find their pursuit of happiness to be pushing for laws so that those who do work will provide for those who do not. I do not believe that is what our hard-working founders had in mind; they did not create a welfare state. They created the best governing system the world has ever seen. Today we are on the verge of destroying even the principles upon which this system was founded.
If you love where you live, if you love your country, if you love yourself, this is going to take a lot of hard work by ALL of us. WE CAN FIX OUR COUNTRY.

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Apologies to Readers

11/25/2012

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Hello Dear and Faithful Readers --

My apologies for the time gap since last post. Long story short, November has been a difficult month for many people I know and others whose stories I've been hearing. We had two deaths in my family on the same day earlier this month, along with the two funerals on the same day a few days later. A charity event in our community, two emergency trips to the veterinary for both our dogs (not the same day), 3 trips a week for neck and back treatments, and other family worries occurring.
Please accept my apologies for my not having been in the mood to write.

I hope you voted on November 6th. I did. After the two funerals that day. I am not satisfied with the outcome of the election and find it to be a sad turn of events for our country as a whole. I pray for those who have not yet realized the folly of their voting decision. I pray for our country. This is the hand we've been dealt though, and find a way to survive, I pray we can. I mourn for the sad financial state of our country and those who would lead us to believe the mounting debt and lack of jobs is improvement. (Some have told me I'm a sore loser and I need to get over it and move on... Our country cannot move forward no matter what the sitting president's logo was. You cannot move forward when unemployment continues to rise, national debt continues to rise, and healthcare is so pitifully lacking and getting worse.)

So, in short, I am dissatisfied with November 2012. I don't like to lose people I love even though I know they were Christians ready to move to a better place than here. I don't like watching people and animals suffer. I don't like seeing my country in turmoil and the wrong leadership in place. I don't like being chastised for loving my family. There's a lot of "I don't likes" going around, not all mine!

People seem very grumpy this month, especially since the election. Not just me, but others. They've had family crises, heartaches, frustrations, job losses, health worries, scares, and frustrations.
I'm hoping December will bring back the spirit of Christmas into our hearts and allow us all to see the light of God in our everyday lives, to see the love around us, from those we love. I'm hoping we can find a way to aid our country. I'm hoping we can find a way to ease grief (heaven knows, 3 days off work doesn't ease grief). I'm hoping we can work with others rather than immediately finding fault in their words and deeds. I'm hoping for a merry Christmas (not the secular happy holiday, but a Blessed and Merry Christmas for all!)!!!

And, it is time to light the lights, let our lights shine and celebrate! May November go out like a lamb to usher in this glorious time of year! Prayers for all tonight.

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This and That

7/15/2012

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Our country, the good ole USA is in trouble and many are content to sit by and watch waiting for someone to do something.
Our healthcare system is a mess and getting worse.
Our government is showing serious of signs of comedic stupidity. (meaning: it is so stupid it is laughable)
Our country is being overrun by illegal persons who have no intention of becoming citizens and working hard; rather, they are choosing to come here and bleed our country dry through our "entitlement programs." We are known as the hand-out nation. Come, and we will give you much while our own people suffer.
Our own people, legal citizens, are falling into a trapped lifestyle of "gimme more, gimme more."
The rest of our citizenry still believe in the American dream, hard work, and the pursuit of happiness (not guarantee of happiness) and are slowing failing in an economic plan that will kill off the money supply.
Government legislators recently caused an uproar over the US Olympic team's uniforms being made in China; yet our people do not even know all the details of a health care plan being crammed down our throats. What a time for our legislators to worry about clothing made overseas!! How many of our purchased goods are made overseas, yet there's not been a fuss until now. Trying to distract us perhaps? (Shortly after the President signed an Executive Order giving him power over ALL communications, e.g. cell phones, internet, media.....)

We Americans are never happy: it's too hot, it's too cold, it rains too much, there's no rain, someone else got a pay raise, our car isn't as nice, the neighbor has a pool, the guy at work smokes, and etc. Then, there are those who complain about religious denominations: but we don't complain about cult members running for office, or leaders who support those of terroristic-based philosophies stemming from other religions; and, heaven forbid, we include God in our Pledge of Allegiance!
Apparently, we've forgotten what our Declaration of Independence says from history classes long ago!
When we will learn???
Think. Read. Educate. Listen. Don't sit there complacently waiting for someone to do something. Each one of us is part of the answer. Our leaders are elected by us, "we the people," and they must be accountable to us, to their country and countrymen. They are to listen and govern intelligently, not idly and without knowledge of those they govern and without knowledge of the laws they enact.

YOU and I, each of us has a responsibility to ourselves, to our children, our families, our friends, our enemies to protect and preserve the Constitution of the United States of America, keep the USA as a land of the free, home of the brave..............not the land of the freeloaders and home of the taxed.

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4th of July

7/4/2012

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Happy 4th of July to all!! To all who are here as legal citizens and who seek to be legal citizens that is! To all who take our freedoms for granted.   To all who serve in our nation's military protecting our very way of life!

I would love to write and say, "Let's celebrate" but I cannot do that, not this year. This is a presidential election year, "Obamacare" was upheld as a tax (taxation on the lack of a purchase), our economy is still struggling, too many people seem blind to the socialization of our country (removal of the democracy), double-standards are rampant, and people (human beings like you and me) are falling through the cracks of statistics. (Just as a side note, my spell-check program wanted to auto-correct "Obamacare" to "macabre." Amazing the similarity in both spelling and intent!)

This July 4th may we all remember what occurred 236 years ago in this country. Our founding fathers prepared and put forth the Declaration of Independence! They gave us certain rights and freedoms which we lacked under the oppression of a monarchy across the ocean. They gave us the right to not suffer taxation without representation. They gave us the right to free speech. They gave us the right to bear arms. The list goes on. They didn't create such statements without serious thought to the future our our country and her people. They were wise.

I believe they were doing their very best to make sure some of the falsehoods and tragedies we are seeing forced through by "executive" privilege these days could not happen.   Our founding fathers created a triangle government: executive, legislative, and judicial to avoid an over-powerful leader as we had been under from England. Those three branches of government were to be a check-and-balance to one another.

Bear in mind, I am trying to keep this as simple as possible dear readers. Our country is changing rapidly, on a downhill spiral away from an awesome system set up by very wise men, all in the name of taking care of those who now arrive illegally, who do not work (and care not to work), by labeling them as the needy for whom we must care.   I am consistently amazed that we, although we used to be the most powerful nation on earth, are losing our ground (rapidly) and that the American people sit by and watch it happen as if it's just another movie with a happy ending coming up.

If our country continues in this fashion there will be no happy ending and with today's technology it will be too late to regain our status and way of living by the time we do wake up. I pray for our country every day for she is my home and pray she has the strength within her to stand up to tyranny of all forms, to maintain the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. (Note, the founding fathers stated the pursuit of happiness, not the right to happiness. Happiness cannot be guaranteed nor handed out.)

May we realize that there are a lot of "moochers" in our country who are stealing our way of life, who are breaking the bank, and who in the end will end up as poor as those of us who work and support them once the government is fully bankrupt.   Those of us who work and pay our taxes are held accountable, so too should everyone within our borders - illegals need to become legal if they want to stay here - illegality prevents you from benefits, but somehow they are rising through the cracks while American citizens are falling through the cracks.

I show photo I.D. for many purposes, I have NO PROBLEM with showing photo I.D. to vote. Why would anyone else? Unless you are illegal and want to cheat the system. If one votes illegally, then isn't that cheating to win an election? We teach our children not to cheat in board games and in life, why should we let them see our elected officials and illegal persons cheat our country out of our way of life?

I wish each one of you a Happy 4th of July and pray we can always celebrate this date!

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Americans are...

4/29/2012

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Idiots.
We weren't always idiots, we started out as homeless waifs looking for a better life, as rebels wanting religious freedom, as natives of this land. Somewhere along the line we have become complacent idiots.
We say things like, "My vote doesn't count," "there's no stopping the government," "there's no use arguing with the government," "people just don't care anymore," "young people nowadays don't understand work...." You get the idea.
We, all of us, have become complacent. We quit believing in the American way: come to America, work hard, and live the American dream of freedom from religious persecution and providing a better life for our children. Now, we get by. Many of us paycheck to paycheck, one paycheck away from from financial and personal disaster. We've tied our emotions, our sense of well-being into our finances in an inexplicable way. Our economy has turned downward and with it, our outlooks.
How did the generation of The Great Depression survive it? They worked HARD. They scrimped, they did without......so their children might eat and have at least one outfit for school that was washed weekly, many times in an old wringer washer or by hand. Having more than one outfit in high school was for the well-to-do. How did they get through gas-rationing, sugar-rationing? Because they BELIEVED in America, they believed in doing all they could as individuals to help the war effort when WWII came along, even though they would do without more luxuries just as they had in the depression.
Do we still believe in America? Do we believe in hard work, doing without, the betterment of others, of freedom for all?
Oh sure, I hear a lot of people say how hard they work...and still have nothing. Yet, they have a roof over their heads, food to eat, clothes to wear, vehicles to drive, etc. Not every item may be shiney new, but who are we to put our noses in the air? Really now. Who do we think we are? Are we entitled to perfection? NO!
Our founding fathers didn't promise Utopia. They promised the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They did not guarantee perfection. Pursuing happiness requires hard work.
Somewhere along the line we all seem to have come to the idea that "someone owes me." REALLY? From what planet did you fall?
Those who collect entitlement benefits feel entitled to them....some of them are on the second or third generation of entitlements and know no other way of life but the handouts, and they will tell you those handouts simply are not good enough. Those who work hard for the "things" in their lives will tell you they should get some handouts because they work hard and have earned "something" from our governent.
Guess what? SOMEBODY has to pay for the freebies. We are running out of people with jobs to pay the freebies. Soon, hopefully soon, SOMEONE will realize we all are supposed to be pursuing happiness by our own hard work with our own darned hands. Hopefully soon, before we completely crash and kill off our way of life. We are dangerously close my readers. Dangerously close. When employers have to layoff workers and close up shop because no one can afford certain products it impacts other industries. It becomes not a trickle-down, but a complete run-off......which leads to a flood of homeless, hungry, naked people. Sounds a bit like a third-world country, doesn't it?
That is where we Americans, a complacent society of entitled idiots, are headed if we don't pull our shit together. Yes, I said shit. Every good redneck out there should understand that. We cannot allow our government to create and encourage entitlements. We need to financially encourage businesses to stay open so we, who work, have jobs. We need to quit being the world's financier so that we can work on our own debt. We need to add proportionate tariffs to goods we sell overseas to those coming in from other countries: fair and equal trade. We need to bring AmericanWe need to work.
We need to pursue happiness before we never know what it is again.

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