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Friday, August 28, 2009

A Solution, to the Welfare State.

This is an older post, just never got fully completed,

The United States of America, is changing. Its progressively transforming... But how so, here are just a few key points that I would like to bring up:

Are we as Americas allowed, yes allowed, to oppose a President, ie. President Obama, and not be accussed of not liking him or not wanting him things to work because he is African American. (Its a very shallow accusation, but one that has been made, just listen to the latest Diane Watson quotes..

This debate for me centers around Rush Limbaugh's comments of when he states that he wants President Obama to fail. If I state that I want President Obama to fail, it is because I want his ideas and principles to fail, not him. IT is a matter of idealogy and not race, is it that hard to see? I know he is the 1st Africian American President, but if we are truly "post racial" then lets just leave it at that and DEBATE the issues. Now, can America continue to be the leader of the world with the changes he wants to bring? I do not know for sure, but I do knew what values, principles, and ideals I do believe in are changing. Do you want America to be what Obama wants it to be, and if you feel that way then okay, but do NOT make it about race!

Here is the question I need to ask, since the Health Care Bill is at the center of the news. Is it the government's duty to become a part of the "private sector" and why in the hell would we want it?

Alright I get it, what does unregulated captialism led too.. greed, those greedy insurance companies I tell you. I know the health care system is out of control, I pay doctors bills. But look how the government has handled all that it has taken over! Do you truly believe that government involvement at this high of level, now even more in health care is good?

It is tempting, we all want someone to take care of us... but today I want me to take care of myself!

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Who cares? It's just politics.

As you can see this post has nothing to do with football. My new found interest in caring about the country that I live in has become more important at the time being, then any football news.
And I figured I might as well blog about anything.. I was not getting a good response from my football commentary so its time to try something new.

So here is the question I have been struggling with lately.. What is America, and more importantly what will it be in the future? But before I ask that question, let me ask this question, why should we, both you and me, care? After all this is probably one of the last things people want to talk about. For me it started months before the election of President Obama. I was sitting around the house one day bored to my mind waiting to go to work. There was only so much sports,,ie. football web surfing one can do! and trust me I was reaching my limit. So I turned on the radio, but instead of music this time, I turned on 97.1 fm talk radio out of St. Louis. The show that was on was Bill O'Reilly. Now before this time I really did not follow politics, for whatever reason, I like many others found it boring. (I remember growing up my parents would always have Rush Limbaugh on, but I was never actively interested in what he was saying.) But then I listened to his show, Mr. O'Reilly radio show was very engaging and interesting and the next thing you know I was listening to it every morning. At that time he was building up to an interview with thee Obama. I, day after day, became more interested.. realizing even though I did not know that much, I could be actually be interested in something other then football and my latest is baseball. Then came the interview with Obama. I sat and listend and since then have not been able to pull my interest away from politics. How could I be so disengaged for so long? But finally I had a reason to be engaged,

Why? Why do I care? Because I became angry. Angry that in the interview and every time since then Obama would not directly answer the questions.. (nor his White House Press Sec. Robert Gibbs)..
after all he was running for the presidency and he can not give a straight answer!!
(I realize he is running for the presidency and he has to say the "right" things to get elected, but
please let your true liberal idealogy out.! Let us know that is who you are and then we can make a decision.)
Angry that this pattern is present in the mainstream media. Angry that learning more that it is not just a Democrat thing.. but also a Republican. That former president Bush did many things that I would not agree with also, things that in the name of national secruity went against our freedoms. I began to listen to more than just Bill O'Reilly, I started listening to Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham, and Mark Levin, and yes Rush also.
I began thinking that I do not have to be a "crazy" conservative to listen to this stuff,,, and why is it that the label the media puts on people who do listen to these people? I also watch the "junk" that is on MSNBC such as Keith Olbermann and Rachael Maddow. I watch and see the pure hatered they have for the right. But I also watch to see if they say anything that is valid, anything that I could agree with.

But after feeling angry I felt impowered. I felt that I can watch all these shows from the left and the right and I can form my own opnions on who I do and do not agree with. When pushed I am a traditionalist with moral values, because of my Christian faith. I became angry when Obama did not stand up for the life of the unborn, but does that make my view any less valid. Why does the media put down such views? The answer is simple, it is because those that are running such media organizations have liberal idealogies and agendas. Which brings me back to the question I asked at the start, What is America, and why should we care?

Because the America that is, is changing. Obama is the symbol of yep you guessed it "hope and change" but is it what you want? There is a host of issues that I have now become interested in, like what is torture, legalization of gay marriage, our international involvement in any number of countries, North Korea, and the latest cap and trade.. just to name a few. For me it is about forming an opinion and then defending it, giving good reason for it. For that freedom is what America is. Freedom that will be lost if nobody cares. Learn that lesson now, before it is to late.
Just look at communist countries, what is going on in Iran, these are examples of what happens when we lose our freedom to voice our views, no matter how different thy might be from one another! Is Obama what you want for America, if so then you got what you wished for, but if not then voice your opinion but defend it with good reason, which is mostly what I will do. It is not that I dislike Obama because he is not a Republican, it is nothing like that. It is becuase I disagree with him on almost every issue he has faced and future blogs from me will explain more on this.

But let me finish writing this post with this:
"Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose."
C Wright Mills