Food for Thought: Freedom

In the USA we have so many freedoms that are withheld from other people.  Yet we remain, at times, ungrateful, unappreciative and can be so obnoxiously belligerent it boggles my mind.  We are, and I’m speaking in the overall general sense of things here, quite a bossy bunch of ingrates.  Don’t shake your head; maybe you’re one of those people who have only what they need to live but that is not the overall population of middle class America.   I’ve noticed over the last few years that I have more crap – way more crap – than I need in my life.  We are a people who crave material things.  The more we have the more we want and it goes on and on.  We’ve become judgmental and numb to the world and to our affect on it.  Even with all the awareness groups or a simple stroll in any major city in America we remain blind mice running around in a sea of greed and selfishness.  

On the political front – well, it’s just so scary it’s hard to wrap it around my brain let alone twist it to make a shred of sense.  Even in this arena people are cruel and harsh and go around condemning all the wrong people.  People, if I want to place them in the category of human, are picketing soldiers’ funerals.  What the hell is wrong here?  HELLO, you want to picket something, get your loud mouth over to the front sidewalk of your congressman or woman, your senators, or any other POLITICAL LEADER that actually has something to do with our government.  Leave the men and women who have died doing what their president asked them do to alone!  Let their families grieve in peace and leave our soldiers their dignity. 

Speaking of our soldiers, it was NOT Obama who killed Osama Bin Laden!  It was our soldiers doing one hell of a job to rid the world of one NASTY SON OF A BITCH TERRORIST.  These same soldiers almost had to go UNPAID just a couple of weeks ago yet our president smacks it up and takes credit for all of this.  PLEASE, MR PRESIDENT, BITE MY BIG ASS!  Freedom comes at a very high price these days.  We can agree to disagree with war; war is one ugly mess people.  Unconscionable, horrible, ugly things go on… it is what it is and if you want it to stop we need to be directing our efforts to the powers that be and not at our soldiers who are doing a KICK ASS JOB!   

Remember where we came from, how we got here, and what our country has been through.  Remember those who fought for us, what they fought against in the past, and what they may come up against in the future.  We’ll make mistakes, we will lose, but with one voice we need to speak to our government and let them hear us.  We need to make them understand our needs and maybe then we can become a greater nation; respectful and compassionate.  Oh, and MR PRESIDENT, PLEASE GET OFF YOUR PEDESTAL AND THANK THE SOLDIERS IN OUR NATION AGAIN AND THEN AGAIN AND THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS BECAUSE IT IS BECAUSE OF THEM THAT WE ARE A SUCCESS IN BATTLE.  

I humbly thank our soldiers for granting me the freedoms I have today… it is those freedoms that allow me to write this post without fear of going to jail or being beheaded or having my tongue yanked out and then being beheaded! To the soldiers in my personal life... Thank you, I love you guys!

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