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I USED TO LIVE IN A COUNTRY

Posted by B Mitch on Friday, November 07, 2008 11:04:08 PM

I USED TO LIVE IN A COUNTRY

I used to live in a country, where hard work, dedication, loyalty and honesty were the keys to success. If practiced they would assure you a degree of pride in your accomplishments, both socially and spiritually. I used to live in a country, where a woman was respected because she was, a woman and deserved proper deference for that fact alone.

I used to live in a country, Where the differences between Men and Women were celebrated as complimentary and not adversarial.

I used to live in a country, where having a child was cause for joy and celebration, not the anguish of whether or not to abort it. I used to live in a country, where if such an event took place without the benefit of the traditional two parent family being available. The family that was available would take the child, love it , raise it and cherish it as their own. That’s not a supposition, I lived it.

I used to live in a country, where everyone who watched the flag pass by on the Fourth of July swelled with pride. I used to live in a country, where burning the Flag was unthinkable until our Congress and Supreme Court said it was OK. I used to live in a country, where our military was held in the highest esteem and where families with sons and daughters who had made the ultimate sacrifice would be comforted by their fellow countrymen.

I used to live in a country that spawned new ideas on a daily basis, spurned on by the knowledge that one of those just might be the next huge step into the future. With the knowledge that the fruits of ones labor was their own and not the property of others.

I used to live in a country, where being a Congressman or Senator was a position of the highest order; not one held in scorn by 91% of the American people. I used to live in a country, where the indictment of a public official was treated with shock, not with resignation. I used to live in a country, where self reliance and Freedom were most treasured; not the hand-out mentality we seem to live by today.

I used to live in a country, that was governed by common sense. Not politicians making medical decisions or the same people talking of taking over energy companies or telling farmers to grow food for fuel.

I used to live in a country, where in a time of war, all the countries leaders would forget differences and support the effort that our service men and women were fighting for. Not vocally cheer for the defeat of their own troops for political advantage.

I used to live in a country, that I was sure my Children and Grandchildren would be proud to live in. I fear I will not live to see that country again.

Bob Mitchell
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TRUE GREEN not SOCIALIST GREEN

Posted by B Mitch on Monday, March 31, 2008 2:51:25 PM
   I will take a back seat to no one in my concern for the safety of our natural resources. I have spent nearly all my seventy years putting  money, effort, elbow grease and reputation where my mouth was. I've watch what was a perfectly good word, environmentalist, turned into a word used by urban terrorists to distroy property and coerce the uninformed to their way of thinking.
   There are equal partners in this terrible truth, one, the education establishnent  from K thru Universities, I think I got them all with that, I hope so. Watching my grandson perform in a play put on by his grammer school was more than I could stand. Lines like , the evil loggers and greedy bussiness men and the demonizing of those who hunt and fish, it made me sick. Funny, there were no evil bussiness women.
   I swore that day I would do as many fishing seminars as possible to dispell the notions being taught in our schools. We've abandoned our younger folk to the socialist garbage being spewed every day in our schools. From the cotton candy, feel good mind control in the lower classes to the radical hate taught in the ivory towers of higher education.
   The second culprit, politicians, they may be the biggest of our problems. They tell us all the thinks we know are right. For instance, they know that the most important commodity in this WORLD is water. They even passed a law in the seventies, The Clean Water Act, and to be fair there has been some good results,(Androscoggin R. NH). However when it comes to the really hard decisions, namely stream flow,well that will take some time. Stream flow has mutch to do with dams, which has much to do with electicity, which has mutch to do with business. Not to mention communities and residents and all others that reside in such community. On the bottom of that list is wildlife, Fish, deer, bear, varmits and all the birds that live and need the river for sustenance. We haven't mentioned the habitat surrounding such a body of water. Yes this will take some time, after the legislature demands that the stream flow problem be addressed and resolved. This is hard and polititians don't do hard, see social security.  How about fourteen years.
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