“A NATION IN TRANSITION “
December 5,2012
Sue Tovey
It’s the season of christmas trees and sugar plum fairies and all should be right with the world.
However, that is not where things stand in parts of suburban America today, despite streets lined with sparkling new automoblies filled with busy occupants racing to and from the stores, children’s athletic events and other destinations of import.
There is a strange pall over this image of oppulence and purpose. Where is the ready smile that goes with the holidays? Is there a preoccupation present within this scene of American holiday spirit as we have always known it? I dare say for many, there is a subliminal feeling of change, a lack of certainty and a schooled apprehension in the air.
Of course, the economic situation, natural disasters and the all pervasive hand of governmental uncertainty is in the air now, and for the year to come. No one is sure of what lies ahead with a lack of jobs, increased demands on the individual tax payer, inflation, and the increasing cost of Obamacare on the horizon, along with a fragmennted foreign policy hitched to a diminishing military and a budgetless Congress, just for starters. This reminds me of being at the wheel of an automobile with half your brakes gone, and a steering mechanism which is no longer responding to the touch. OOPS! This spells an accident going some place to happen!
How did this all come about?
Surely a slippage of this magnitude could not happen in America!
Well, Sally, take a breath, it has!
Where did we, the citizens, lose control of our own destiny?
Where is that ” American dream” we hear talked about all the time?
The picture is multi faceted. A case and point could be made from a number of different areas of our society. However, there is no doubt that the horse is running away with the wagon ,and the road is a bumpy one ahead. We have even been sited recently by Pravda, the Russian newspaper, as marching rapidly toward Marxism under Obama. The socialist manipultaion of our cuklture has been robust in recent years, along with the gradual bypassing of the US Constitution by the Congress and the Executive branch of government.
In the meantime, many are still recovering from the election. I would venture to say that very few are even aware of the numerous voting irregularities that are now being investigated throughout the country today.
What has happened to our two party system? Hiow could we have a 16 trillion dollar debt with a so called representative government? What has happened to fiscal responsibility in Congress?
It is past time for all of us to ask these questions, regardless of party.
There is a truism here which many have forgotten or perhaps have never known and that is:
“GOVERNMENT HAS NOTHING THAT IT HAS NOT TAKEN FROM YOU!”
If the American people have reached the point where they want to surrender their freedom to a central government, which was established to protect our rights, not take them away, and to allow them to walk away from their primary constitutional objective in defending this nation, then,’ HAPPY NEW YEAR” everybody. You have just surrendered to the unrelenting hand of a government that has total control of you and yours in mind, using your money to turn the trick!
Are we ready to surrender everything our forefathers have fought and died for?
I think not. How about you?