When Will My Son Grow Up?

My children are in their earlier 20's and I learned tonight that my youngest maybe part of the lost generation. He doesn't want to take on any responsibility, or make any decision or even grow up. He rants and raves about how we don't understand him, and how horrible people are in general. He thinks that we are all conforming, that we all look down on each other.

He refuses to listen to anything that we say. "We don't understand what he is trying to say!" It's history repeating itself. He's me when I was in my 20's and I am my parents. How do I explain to him that life changes you? How do I make him understand that I have to work and his dad has to work to keep food on the table and a roof over his head?

He is great person. He is loving, kind and gentle. He believes in God and he wants to make this world a better place. But, he doesn't see how life, loves and tragedy can change where life leads us on different paths.
How do I show him that he has to start being an adult and not a child? How do I explain to him that he has to start making hard decisions?

It's an age old situation, only it's my turn this time. With love, patience and God's grace we will survive and grow from this. Pray for us.

Overwhelmed by All the Craziness

With all the nastiness and craziness that we deal with on a daily basis, I'm just too overwhelmed today to deal with it all. President Obama trying to sell how well the economy is doing on The View of all things. Looking to improve his poll numbers with women. Why can't we just be told the truth? The economy sucks and there is no end in sight.

We all know some one who is unemployed and who can't find a job. How many know someone who is facing foreclosure? We are living with this economy. I just get so angry sometimes at those in power who treat us like idiots. They don't think we would understand.

I'm tired of the crap that Washington, the media and everyone else feeds us. I work for a living and have since I was 15 years old. I worked my way through school, I didn't come from money, but that's the key, I worked.

So I'm giving myself permission to feel angry, and overwhelmed tonight.

President or a Rock Star

Here is the question, why is President Obama running around the country raising money for Democratic Candidates and appearing on Daytime Talk Shows? With our country at war, and make no mistake, this is his war not President Bush's, why is President Obama not doing what he was elected to do? With unemployment still in the toilet, why is he not working with business leaders and congress to get Americans back to work?

I get the fact that he thinks that taking vacations are cool. I understand that he thinks he looks cool when he shows up on the View. I understand that he thinks he looks great out on the golf links. He seems to think that he is a Rock Star. It's like he thinks that his only job is to look good on camera, give campaign speeches, promise everything and give nothing and travel the country and the world.

Maybe he didn't understand that the President of the United States actually has to lead this country. Maybe he thinks that being liberal means that his agenda is more important then what the the rest of this country wants or needs. Maybe he thinks that he knows more the anyone else, or maybe he is just a puppet and he is just a front man for others.

This country and it's citizens are in dire straits. We need a President, we need a leader, we need some one who will put our needs first. We don't need a President who thinks that he is a Rock Star. President Obama needs to be in Washington, dealing with the issues facing this country. He needs to forget about politics and he a real leader, he needs to be a President.

A Chaos Theory and How It Relates to Politics

This country has under gone great growing pains since it's birth. Fear of differences have been the cause of much pain and suffering for all Americans. In the 60's, this country went the fires of hell to overcome segregation. Why then, do the major political parties and it's leaders keep fanning the fires of prejudice? The Chaos Theory, would explain their reasons.

What is the Theory of Chaos? It is really quite simple and if you think about it, all becomes clear. If the major political parties can keep Americans apart by name calling, teaching intolerance and instilling fear, then they keep control. By pointing out and misconstruing our differences instead of pointing how much we all have in common, then they have power of us.

Think about your neighbors, your coworkers or the members of your church. While the color of your skin maybe different, or your work load different or your faith alittle different, underneath we are really the same. You are born in to the same world as we all are, we all have struggles, both great and small. We all laugh and cry, we all celebrate and mourn and we eventually leave the mortal world behind.

If we stop listening to media hype, political rhetoric, and others who spout off hateful and hurtful garbage, then we can start rebuilding our country together. It's been over 100 years since the Civil War was fought, it's been 40 plus years since we started fighting segregation. Isn't it time that we put all of our energy into rebuilding lives and our country, instead of fear, hate and mistrust.

Chaos causes confusion, which can lead to anger, fear and mistrust. When you feel overwhelmed by chaos, you can begin to start looking to cast blame and too often you place that blame on to others just because they are different. Political parties too often us this against Americans and can even encourage this mistrust and even hate.

Our differences are what make us strong. Our differences have helped build this country. Isn't it time that we took our country back from the politicians who keep us apart for their own financial and political power? If they keep us at each others throat, then we don't see what they are doing to us and to our country. It's time that politicians started listening and working for us.

So, take the time to know your neighbors. Take the time to speak with your co workers and to others in this world. Granted you won't always agree with their point of view, but if you start off with respect, that will go a long way in learning to live together in this world.

The Lose of Our Freedoms

America is under going a radical act from within. American citizens are slowly losing our freedoms. Sometimes we are told that it's for our own good. Smoking causes cancer, so "we" are to going tell you where you can smoke. It doesn't matter, that it has been proven that we all carry the gene which causes cancer, we are born with it. No, the powers that be will take away your right to choose what you will or will not do. All in the name of "being for your own good."

When seat belts came out, we had the choice of wearing or not wearing them. Now, it is illegal to be caught driving without a seat belt on. The revenue that is generated by law enforcement issuing tickets make up a large part of a county or city budget. It is amazing to think that at one time automobile makers were considering removing them from vehicles.

Prayer and The Pledge of Allegiance were once part of each and every school day. It's what we did before starting our day. Now, it is only found in schools associated with religious organizations. It's considered politically incorrect to talk about or refer to God, in any form at public school. Instead of using a prayer in school as a teaching tool to promote understanding, we have let it divide us as a country.

There are individuals and groups who want to take away our right to bear arms. The Right to bear arms was granted to all Americans by the Bill of Rights. No one or no group has the right to take the bearing of arms away from American Citizens. Men and women have fought and died in order to keep our country free from those who would take our freedoms from us.

Americans need to wake up before it's too late and all of our freedoms are gone. Glenn Beck recently talked about the Lose of Our Republic on his TV Show on the Fox News Channel. Many Americans may be uncomfortable with what he has to say, but maybe it's time that we got out of our comfort zone and opened our eyes and our ears, before it's too late.

Lose of Values and Faith

There was a time in this country that we raised our children with strong morals and values. We lived our lives based in our faith. Along the way, some how we lost our way. We stopped living our lives with any moral code. We stopped living by the Golden Rule and started living by the "What Can I Get By With Rule".

Being Politically Correct has and continues to destroy the country. Liberal mind sets have eroded away family values and morals. If you stand up and against the Liberal Agenda you are labeled as racists, or worse. This is far from true, you can have strong morals and values and still be a loving, kind and gentle person. You can disagree with someones choices and still respect them as a person. You can agree to disagree without anger or hate.

You can have a strong faith without imposing on an other's belief. It all comes down to morals and values. Our differences are one of our greatest strengths in this country. We don't have to always agree with each other, but we should respect each other. Why do our political and religious leaders continue to use our differences against us? Why do they promote the idea, that we can't get along with each other. Why do they want us at each others throat? Why have we let the media, politicians, actors and the like erode and destroy our morals and values?

Americans have a long and hard road ahead. We need to come together with respect, with understanding and with strong character in order to turn this country around. We need to speak as one and as a group and make our voices heard. We need to return to basics. We need to promote prayer, respect and kindness to all who will listen. We need to look prejudice in the face and overcome it.

Time is not on our side. Each day that goes by pushes our children towards an abyss. If we don't teach our children well, how can they in turn teach their children.

How We Have Failed Our Children

It is hard to admit, but we have failed our children. It didn't happen overnight, but gradually and without us even realizing what we were doing. Maybe we thought we were doing the right thing, but it has come back to hurt our children in the long run.

If you were part of the baby boomers, then you grew up in an era that started out innocent, but ended in turmoil. You grew up with "flower power", "make love not war", you grew up with liberals ideas that we thought would change the world for the better. We were going to end racial bias, end the Vietnam War and prevent further war. Peace was going to be our legacy. We were going to be better people.

What have we accomplished? The same people who wanted to save the world, are destroying our country. Why did we allow prayer to be taken out of our schools? What purpose did it serve? Why do politicians and religious leaders encourage racial animosity? Why have unions allowed businesses to close up shop and move out of this country without a fight? When did we stop fighting for our freedoms and our liberty?

By trying to hard to give our children everything, we have given them nothing. We have created a generation of selfish, lazy and uncaring people. There are many who feel that something is owed them. There are many who feel hard work is beneath them. There are many who only want to take the easy way out. This is how we have failed our children.

If we don't do something to turn this country around, then there will be no legacy for our children. We need to start today, we need to return to the morals and values that helped our parents and grandparents through horrific personal, economic and political times. We need to put our personal differences aside and come together as one and repair the damage done to this country.

People will say it can't be done, but it can, if we only try. We only have to have the courage to take the first step.

The Lost Industrial Base

Growing up in this country, I remember a time when a man or a woman could support their family by working in some type of industry. It may be a steel mill or a textile mill, it may have been working in a sewing factory or even a cabinetry factory. But those days are long over and far removed from the world today.

Millions are out of work, with little to no hope of finding an real employment. Businesses have longed left this country in the search for cheaper labor, cheap raw materials and larger profits. Democrats blame the Republicans and vice a versa. Truth be told, both parties and their leaders are to blame for this horrific situation. While they spit back and forth at each other, average Americans are struggling to survive this downward spiral.

Hard times are here and harder times are around the corner. It is doubtful is many American would or could survive another Depression. Rural America may stand a better chance, but how many of the young people in this country would know how to live off the land? This should be a major concern for all Americans. Lean times are here and will only become leaner for those of us in middle America.

Our political leaders need to stop casting blame and look to how America can start rebuilding the industrial base. It won't be easy and foreign countries will rant and rave, but we need to starting putting this country and it's citizens first. American companies need to be based in this country, not just be shipping products to this country.

President Obama and members of Congress need to leave their ivory towers and take a long walk down Main Street. They are too far removed from how the rest of the country lives. If they did that, then maybe these hard decision would be a little easier to make.

Generation Zero, Count Down to Disaster

Generation Zero is a movie that addresses the disaster that is facing our country. It explains how the generations that survived the Great Depression and who fought in WWII created a generation of selfish individuals by giving them more than they needed. The best intentions went very wrong.

These individuals are the former hippies. The flower children who spit on the soldiers when they returned from Vietnam. These are the ones who bomb buildings and generally caused disorder in this country.  These are the Asbury Park Generation. They went from hippie to yuppie with age and change in political atmosphere. Their selfish, I can do no wrong attitude, nothing can go wrong attitude caused the Wall Street Disaster.

They are very good at talking but not at taking responsibility. There actions are leading us down the path to disaster. History repeats itself. A depression maybe around the counter, and this time there may be no saving this country.

Hannity, on Fox News recently had videos of Generation Zero and also interviewed the individuals responsible for this video. Watch these videos and educate yourself before it's too late.

Amnesty and Illegal Immigrants

Fox New, CNN and others, along with the print media keep the immigration problem at the fore front of the news. We are hit, hourly and daily with news about what President Obama wants to do about the problem of illegal immigrants. We don't hear realistic solutions but we do hear how amnesty is the humanitarian thing to do. President Obama's supports make it seem that if you are against amnesty then you are a bigot or worse.

The truth of the matter is that American citizens, all over this country are tired of his lack of leadership and how he seems too far removed from the serious situations facing this country. His liberal ideas and liberal supports don't seem to care about this country or its legal residents.

You can not just give amnesty to illegal immigrants without first investigation who they are and why there are here. Just because they came here as a child, does not give them the right to remain here, especially if they are part of a gang, or they are living off the system. While amnesty may work for those who have entered the military and who have gainful employment, it can not simply be a blanket situation.

Amnesty should be looked at on an individual basis. Criminal records must be reviewed, as well as possible connections to drug cartels in Mexico. How, when and why they came must be assisted, as well as the reasons that kept them from using the Immigration System currently in place.

Amnesty has a place, but it is not necessarily in Immigration Reform. Common sense needs to rule, along with humanitarian reasoning. This is not the America of the past, with vast resources, abundant jobs and land. The Federal Government owns most of the land in the western part of this country and homesteading is a thing of the past. Big business and their lack of a moral compass has helped in the destruction of this country. Small businesses are failing daily and the economy is failing along with them.

Welfare Rolls are overflowing and American Taxpayers are tired of paying for individuals who refuse to work or take responsibility for themselves. Americans are just plain tired of the lies and corruption in Washington and in Big Business.

While many illegal immigrants are honest and hard working, many are not. While many illegal immigrants make wonder neighbors and friends, many do not. There is no easy answer to this problem, but common sense will go a long way in finding one.

Illegal immigrants need to know that this issue will be addressed and that it is their responsibility as well as ours to come up with a solution. If an individual wants to stay in this country and become an American Citizen then they should illustrate this by learning the language, by working hard and by coming forward without fear.

As Americans, we can find a resolution to this problem, without hate and without fear, if we work together,

More Than An Angry Day, Just Plain Mad

We all have days where anger gets the best of us, where everyone and everything bothers us. Today is more than that, it's a day where angry and turned to being madness. It's a day where hurting some one's feelings, could happen with out a single thought.

Watching the news just escalates the anger. Why does President Obama and Congressional Leaders think that the American People are stupid. Why do they think that they can do and say anything and we'll just sit down and take it. Don't they realize that living in the real world like we do, that we have friends and family without jobs, whose unemployment has run out. Don't they realize that we have children who can't find work, who want to go to school but they can't get financial aid. Don't they realize that we see how those who get Food Stamps eat better then most of the working class. Don't they realize that we see how the Credit Card Companies have stolen from us, the American Taxpayer? Don't they know that we have family member who can't afford to see a doctor, a dentist or have their eyes checked?

Why have our leader allowed prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance to be removed from our schools? Why does being politically correct mean more than being honest? Why have we allowed schools to become war zones? Why do our leaders play games with the American Public? Where have the leaders gone?

Americans are tired of the lies, from President Obama, from Congress, from the media, from the unions and from religious leaders. We want and need the truth from all fronts and much to the dismay of our so called leaders, we can and will handle the truth.

So yes it's an angry day, but it's more than that, it's a just plain mad day, from an run of the mill American.

Immigration Reform and Welfare

President Obama spoke this morning on how badly this country needs Immigration Reform. This is nothing new, most Americans would agree that it has been long over due. The only problem is that President Obama and Congress either doesn't see or refuses to see how Welfare plays a part in this.

It is really pretty simple, why would anyone work, especially hard labor, when they can just sit at home and get a check from the government. While welfare might be well meaning, it has created a society of lazy, do nothing individuals. President Obama is right, illegal immigrants work as migrant workers, picking much of this country crops. But, if the government didn't dole out money like water, maybe Americans would get off their lazy butts and work in the fields, like our grandparents and great grandparents did. Hard work never hurt anyone, but welfare has been and continues to create generations of individuals that feel that this kind of work is beneath them.

Once upon a time in this country, taking a hand out from the government was frowned on. Parents and grandparents encouraged children to stand on their own two feet and make something of themselves. Now, it's okay to sit at home and wait on the welfare check. It's okay not to take responsibility for your actions. We have created a society that believes the government and taxpayers owe something. They scream about their skin color, property level, ethnic background, whatever reason they can think up to get something for nothing.

Enough already, it's time for all Americans to start picking up the pieces of this country and start working together to make our lives and the lives of our children better. Immigration Reform has to occur but along with it needs to come Welfare Reform. We need common sense solutions without politics, religion or ethnic crap brought into the mix.