Who Took My Country!

Once upon a time in Land called America, boys and girls were taught by their mothers and teachers that if they worked hard, played fair and obeyed the law, they would live long happy lives.

The freedoms that we enjoyed were won for us all by the fighting men of the army and navy. And only the Godless Communists could not trust their governments. Only the Reds spied on their citizens or arrested them without just cause.

The Communist system was doomed to fail because the citizens of these countries did not own anything, everything belonged to the state and no matter how hard you worked you could not get ahead. Men and women risked their lives to get to America, to enjoy the freedoms we had. To raise a family and own a home for the whole world knew that an American man's home was his castle.

That was then.....................

What the Hell Happened to My Country!!! Who stole it?? This is MY country and I am sick of politician and a million special interest groups stealing and warping my freedoms. I will defend my land and my country with my heart and sole, but where did we go off the rails?

Today, Thanks to our Supreme court, read that as Republican court, most of the rights that we have taken for granted for two hundred years are slowly being legislated out of existence or at least weakened to the point of being useless. Each of the Rights contained in the Bill of Rights are under attack by one group or another.

Many of these assaults can be gathered together under a banner that reads " The Patriot Act".
Essentially this one law suspends most of the Bill of Rights as the government or King George desires. If they don't have a law that has been broken then the Patriot Act can cover any of their actions against any citizen. Wire taps, reading of your mail, and back ground checks are all becoming common place. (Can you say KGB!)

American politicians are getting fat in deals with major corporations by issuing laws that allow American jobs to be out sourced to cheap foreign labor in other countries. They have recently put through a bill to raise the minimum wage. But in order to get that through they traded major tax breaks for the rich.

Every evening the newspapers and the television news tells us how wonderfully the American economy is doing. Well fellas if a company lays off 30,000 men and shows a great profit this quarter that does NOT mean that the economy is doing great!

You want to know how the economy is doing? Use this method:

1. Go to Walmart and count the cars in the parking lot. Every car you see in that vast asphalt waste land is owned by an American worker struggling to make his paycheck stretch out enough to be able to fill his gas tank and get back to his job with no benefits.

2. Go to the mall down the street, get a $4.00 cup of coffee from Starbucks and sit for a few hours. Now count the people walking past you. Subtract from that the number of people that you see actually carrying a package that they bought in the mall. If the answer is larger then the second number then THINGS AIN'T SO FRICKIN" GOOD!

As far as a man's house being his castle, well he might find today that his castle is turned into a White Castle thanks to the Republican's courts ruling on eminent domain. Ranchers in the old west fought the elements, wild Indians, and rustlers to keep their land but their great grand children are finding that they are being out cut off at the pass by Heavenly Ham and Denny's. If a developer wants your property and has enough Bull Shit to convince the local government that they could build condos and strip malls that would bring in more taxes then your home or business does at the moment, they can declare eminent domain and force you to sell to the developer. Basically you are a tenant on the property and some one else has the right to decide if you will sell your property.

When I was a child adults told us about the conditions in the Soviet Union. Very little freedom, no property rights, secret police, people being imprisoned for being an enemy of the state. Today it feels just a little to familiar. At least they had job security, a pension, and health care.