I've been avoiding the media for about three years now, because I can't stand watching it and watching my country go down the tubes. I miss the America I believe in, the America of hard work and reaping what you put into it, Americans who don't expect or demand that the government fix everything. I'm tired of Senators and Representatives getting away with things that the rest of us couldn't. I'm tired of special interests getting all the breaks, deals, and money that comes from my taxes. I'm tired of watching our government bow down to the rest of the world and turn our backs on true allied in the name of some world order. I don't want to let the government that can't manage any other social program control my health care. I want to keep the constitution - the way it is.
I decided that I couldn't avoid it forever and started forcing myself to watch the news - just a little at a time. Then one day I was sewing and turned on Fox News. It happened to be the Glenn Beck show and what he said made sense to me - We need to ask reasonable questions - that we have a responsibility to question our government. I didn't go out to a rally or anything (though I'm thinking about it), but I'm much more conscious about what the government is doing and how I don't want to become a socialist country. One thing I like about Glenn Beck is that he places the blame on both parties and it's not what's best for him or a political party but for the country and what's right and our freedoms.
Then I watched a piece on the Fox News Channel about the Dust Bowl being created in California in order to save a two inch fish. Since I taught in the northern end of the Central Valley of California and loved driving through the fields, it pains me to think of the students, farmers, workers that are out of work, losing their farms because a fish, we can't eat is more important than families, the cost of food, and the possibility of being dependent on foreign countries for food. And the state government can't do anything about it - this is the Federal Government's doing.
Do something different - write your senator, email your representative when you are unhappy with what they or their colleagues are doing. They work for us, not anyone else.
2 comments:
We love Glen Beck too. But I haven't been watching lately. I don't have any idea what creating a dust bowl means or how it saves any fish? Guess I have some catching up to do.
I am proud of you. I haven't felt this good about being an American citizen for a very long time and it is because I saw other citizens standing up for decency and less government control. I don't get angry anymore and I don't pay any attention to the last gasp of the media - they are irrelevant to me. As for the fish thing, it is amazing to me when other options are presented to preserve the fish, install different pumps, etc., the federal government will not even consider them - the life of the fish has become more important than the lives of the people. And the government wants to control healthcare? Fish vs. humans...hmmm...
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