The Changing World

As our economy collapses, and our government changes, much as been running through my mind.  Wondering who I truly am and what makes me tick.  I have experienced much in my short time on this earth.

As a child of the 60's, I was around during the destruction of our nation which included the Watts riots, Kent State, the senseless killings of JFK, RFK and MLK, Vietnam and the riots at the Democratic convention in Chicago.

I grew up in a house with a father in the military.  During the early 60's he spent many nights away from home, sitting in his plane, armed with nuclear weapons, with orders to drop them on Moscow, should the need arise during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

When he wasn't flying planes for the military he was either 3 stories underground or deep within a mountain of solid granite, working in highly restricted areas.  Although he has been retired form the military for over 30 years, we do not know what he did in the military, other than fly planes.  I fully respect his integrity for maintaining his secrets and while it would be interesting to know, I know that I nor our family will ever realize what part he may have played in some of our countries greatest or worst moments.

All of this plays a part of who I am and what I stand for.  My entire life I have identified my self as a conservative, not flaming, but a moderate, center of the road conservative.  

As I grow older and have learned to look deeper at life and the world around me, I find myself confused by what the "conservatives" of today stand for and what they are doing to our country.  With that said, I also look at the "liberal" side of the stone as well.  

Both the liberals and conservatives are destroying our country and I'm tired of sitting by and allowing them to ruin our great county.  We have ceded complete authority to them, then we bitch and complain and re-elect them four years later.

When will we get back to the days of personal accountability, responsibility?  We will never improve our country or way of life until we hold ourselves accountable for the choices that we make in choosing the people that we elect to run our government.

We are Americans first and foremost and we have to get past this Democrat and Republican, conservative/liberal crap and do what is right for this country.  It doesn't matter if you were born in the US of A or live here now, you are an American period, not African American, or Mexican American or Cuban American or even Canadian American.  We are Americans!

Let's start to act like Americans!