Today, I listened
to the news and wondered in my mind, “What has happened to the America we
once knew? What happened to the patriotic celebrations, the standing for the
flag as it was proudly carried by in a parade. How about standing in respect for the military
members who fought in past wars? They fought for our freedom and rights as a
nation.
I heard this
morning that the unfurling of the American Flag at a game being played is next
on the chopping block. I wonder about the lack of respect shown at a game of sport some lovingly call Football, because they take a
knee while the National Anthem is being
played and sung, honoring out nation, our flag, our military, our strength, our men and women.
The days of apple
pie and ice cream are gone. I mourn the passing. We talk every day about
what is happening to our nation of people. We realize we are not alone. We realize that the majority of Americans feel the same way we do. However, the lesser
amount of citizens has a loud clanging voice and they are unafraid to spew
their vile hatred of things they often don’t know anything about.
The students in
high school and college are not taught of things of our past, our history,
where we all came from, and what we had to do to become the strong nation we
once were. I watched an interview of young college aged students who were asked
if they agreed with the statement, “America was never that great.” They agreed.
However, are they educated enough
to learn of the wars that were fought to keep this nation free, that were
fought to establish and maintain their right to spew stupidity from their
mouths and not have any repercussions for speaking it. They are not being
required to learn these kinds of history facts. Are they required to learn our
cultural history? Are they required to learn about our government? Do they know
how it actually runs? I don’t think so.
Do they understand that all of
the free stuff they want paid for by the government is actually paid for
by tax dollars? Do they understand that tax dollars come from the working
population of this country we live in? How could they understand this because many of them don’t work, nor have they
ever worked. They are in college learning socialistic thinking from their college
professors. Many throw chairs through windows or burn cars rather than hear other lines of thought.
On the newscasts,
we hear about the situation of the illegal population who manage to cross the
borders into our country and slip through the cracks in our poorly legislated
system of laws. I have heard so many left thinking persons spew that these people have
rights to our American way of life. Give them state assistance. Give them
medical and dental and a right to a good education, food stamps to eat, verification by identity cards, (and while we are at it, register them to vote as a Democrat.) Most do not even speak English and check boxes of verification they have no idea what it even says. Think about this people !
They are given freely the opportunities afforded
to people in the United States of America. It is their right to obtain these
wonderful privileges we have been able to take advantage of as citizens of the
USA.
The key word to
this is CITIZENS OF THE USA. They are not citizens. They did not wait in line.
They did not earn the right to become an American citizen. They stole that
right. They did not earn it. In addition, NO, they do NOT have those rights
automatically given to them. They BROKE THE LAW. They are here by SNEAKING
across the border. THEY ARE HERE ILLEGALLY.
Now, I ask you.
What normally smart, logical, hard working, undemented, citizen of the USA
can look at their paycheck and see the local taxes we are required to have
deducted, the amount deducted for our
Social Security fund, the medical insurance portion deducted, these items we
see on our paycheck accounting line. We understand those are the items that
support our government, who support our military, which support our law
enforcement, who support us in our retirement years, on and on. NOTHING IS FREE
PEOPLE. We pay for them. And the benefits we have as AMERICAN CITIZENS should not be given freely to ILLEGAL ALIENS.
These folks with
the loud voices screaming for freebies, someday, will have a job and look at their
check and the light will dawn in their brains. Life is not free here folks.
Somebody has got to put up the money to support these programs, and it is the
working class, not the welfare recipient, nor the person living with Dad and
Mom. WE THE PEOPLE support the government.
We need to stand
up for our earned rights and not give those rights away to those who are not
legally here. If they want to sign up, enter our country legally, learn and respect our government, our
flag, our democratic form of government, (Not referring to a political party!) and the price we have had to pay to live
free in this country, then so be it. They too can enjoy the privileges we have and
are welcome to do this.
And one of these
privileges is going to a ball game and rooting for you team on a summers day in
the bleachers, or a winters day in a cold stadium. And one of those privileges
is standing in honor of our country, giving respect to our nations flag, not
another nation’s flag, but our nation’s flag, and singing an anthem supporting
our country to honor the privileges we are so proud to have.
GOD BLESS AMERICA
