I was one
that always seen the glass 1/2 empty, I was told that I had a pessimistic
view on things, I just thought I had a realistic view on things, the glass was
full at one time and someone drank the other 1/2 because they were thirsty,
that's why it's 1/2 empty...
So,
knowing that about myself, I think we as a country, the country the founding
Fathers created, the Republic that now most don't even know that it is the form
or type of government the United States of America "was", I think
it's gone for good, it only took a few generations to do, but they done it and
they done it well, who are they?
They (you
really know who "they" are) are those who believe America wasn't good
enough and had to be better. So, they were out to change it, teaching our
young that our founding Fathers were just a bunch of old white guys in the far,
far past.... what could they possible know that we don't know and that
constitution that they put together and wrote, it's so old it defiantly got to
be out of date by now.....
This is
why most don't know our history (American history) and it's really not taught
anymore in the public school system, that America is a Democracy and not a
Republic (for which it stands), like removing the pledge of allegiance out of
the classroom or teaching all the bad and the wrong things America has done in
the world.... kind·a left all the good it's done for the world, out
of the teaching being done these days.....
They
started just a few generations ago on this path, taking just little steps, day
in and day out, but I think they won or very close to it. They have
changed America forever and those who don't know this, well they just don't
know any better (it was a saying my father used when a person had no idea
of what was) or they are or were part of it.
So, if you
think I'm wrong, prove me wrong..... When I see the stats and they don't look
good. The debt this country is in, boggles the mind, so many American's and
non-American's dependent on the government for that "Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of happiness", in your face corruption, lying and thieving from
all aspects of life, from the streets to capitol hill. The overbearing almost
tyrannical government we live under..... I couldn't image life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness would have looked like this just a few decades ago.
But,
looking back just a few decades ago I seen it, but didn't acknowledge it, I was
too young and naive to recognize it, but it was there, I watched my entire
town I grow up in lose the industries the people of the town depended on for
its lively hood..... poof it was gone, moved to the southern states then out of
the country eventually, by the end of the 70s people have moved on, who cares
or cared, that was yesteryear.
I've
heard of the saying "I can hear that sucking sound" when people talk
about losing jobs in America.... "Hell Man" these day's I can see it,
not just hear it!!!!
So, prove
me wrong, that America is going in the right direction and is better than it
was for our parents... Why because we got technology, computers and cell
phones.... that we have jobs here that Americans don't want, this is why we
have so many illegal's here, knowing just a few decades ago those same jobs
supported Americans, which made them hard working middleclass productive tax
payers and "Dammit Man" I'm not talking about picking fruit or such,
I'm talking about what we call tradesmen jobs, you know being a carpenter,
plumbers, drywall hanger things like that or you just don't know any better? or
you just think everyone works at Wal-Mart, Home depot and Best Buy and that's a
good enough job. Is that kind a what the new working middle
class America is today or you one of them people that doesn't even think about
those things, "work with your hands", that's why it's so easy to
believe those are just jobs that Americans don't want..... oh yeah right your
one of those people lucky enough to go to a high end collage and probably will
employ people for those jobs that Americans don't want to do.
So, prove
to me America is better today than yesteryear and is going in the right
direction and I should have a optimistic view on things, rather then
having a pessimistic view (remember I said that someone said I had a
pessimistic view, I just seen the glass 1/2 empty because someone drank the
other 1/2)..... that today while we think we're in
"tech-no-color", that right from wrong is much harder to see, it's
more complicated today, that things of yesteryear were just so black + white
and so easy to know what was right from wrong here in America, just so foolish
thinking, those of yesteryear.
Prove me wrong...... ah, I dare you to ask a person of the
WW2 or depression era... go ahead... You scared to ask or you just waiting for
them to all die off and then you will know no better?
That's my story and I'm sticking to it. The End.