I wrote most of this one night a few weeks ago and it has languished on my 'Word Pad'...decided to finish it while the electrician was rewiring the apt. this afternoon and I couldn't get on the internet.
I think I'm going to start posting it on as many news links, political forums, etc. that I can find.
I'm a "Boomer' born in 53'. When I was a teenager my depression era folks were busy working and providing for us kids as, "God times are great, America is great, we make quality goods, we live in the 'Land of Plenty' and there's plenty oto go around. There was a war in S.E. Asia, but it was to stop them atheists that would have the whole world forget God and become zombie drones to masters that practiced Idolatry bowing to statues of Lenin, Stalin or Marx.
Well, I had a couple few relatives in the U.S. government , one in the CIA that was privy to a whole lot of info and He came home from Nam in 68', and this God fearing, gun toting, flag waving, chiseled jaw, patriotic American came home in 68' and said to me; "Boy, if this war is still going on when you turn 18, you head to Canada as fast as you can and don't look back."
So, at 18 I went to college, and luckily, I missed the draft as they drafted only up to about #98 on the birth dates list and my birth date was #337. I got involved protesting the war, grew my hair long, met a lot of returning vets and kids a little older than myself that had become hippies and I saw 'their truth'; that America seemed to be heading in the wrong direction via crass capitalism and wanton materialism. So I dropped out of college and studied philosophies and eastern religions and then decided to live a spiritual life, be a simple man with simple wants and desires.
A few years went by and I met a woman some 9 years younger than me when I turned 30 and for the first time in my life I became serious about a relationship with a gal. She wanted a 'normal life'. A nice home in a decent neighborhood, a nice car and kids that could attend nice schools and my lifestyle of that was mostly a result of being content with remaining just a Tradesman wasn't going to be able to provide for that. So, just like I had been taunted to do for years for years, I cut my hair, got a [real] job, and shelved a lot of the things I used to do and wanted to do yet, and joined "Team America" because by God, there were good jobs, although a bit fewer than the year before, and wages were starting to fall behind a bit, as the economy was faltering a little, there was an 'Oil Crisis'and foreign goods and foreign labor were undercutting us a bit...but Hell, that was only a temporary thing until we got our politicians and corporate leaders to catch on and make adjustments. Social Security was so rock solid and had so much money in it that President Jimmy Carter decided we were being greedy and we should start sharing it with anybody 'right off the boat' and give it to their kids, their parents and grandparents too. So we kept on.
But, the politicians never did make them adjustments for us working Americans and the corporate leaders apparently never intended to stop foreign interests from undermining...Hell, they teamed up with them, as they found out they could get richer than ever. They didn't care, why should they. They didn't know any of us or wanted to. They didn't attend any of the same functions, go to any of the stores, schools or churches. They vacationed and socialized with each other, and the elitists of the world, and that was their reality. America was just some idea on a map and a couple of pieces of paper in some archive in Washington D.C. The fact that so many of our ancestors tamed the wilderness and fought to defend this country and busted their humps working and fighting for it meant little or nothing to them. They got theirs by fleecing others out of land and mineral rights. Changing money, keeping a tight rein on labor, staring wars but avoiding service in the military, manipulating stocks and leveraging buyouts, causing real estate fluctuations and manipulating the money market so family farms went bankrupt, housing and commercial development got scarce and saw to it that cheap labor, foreign materials and lower standards of manufacturing and construction became accepted, so as to keep their profits high. They then bought up, bought out, or outright seized those small farms and sold them to foreign conglomerates/investors. The foreign interest bought into or bought out the building and development concerns and bought Real Estate firms and soon wealthy Saudi, Japanese, Chinese, European and South Amnericans' owned vast numbers of homes and commercial buildings that took them off the market so Americans couldn't get a chance to buy them and at the same time that drove up prices of homes that were on the markets, rents on homes, apts and commercial property went up too.
I am so tired of the rest of you electing these prima donna twerps that never worked a hard day in their life, or had to serve in the military and fight in a war, that get elected because of their photogenic and oratorical qualities, that keep selling this country and the 98% of us out, that kept them safe and rolling in money from exorbitant taxes on our hard earned income, that I will call for and lead a boycott of the State, Congressional District, or City that elects or re-elects another one of those shmucks.
I will make it my new occupation and consider it "A Mission for God and this Country."