Hero Despised

I saw this on Facebook last night:

Shame on you America: the only country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed without eating, elderly going without needed meds, and mentally ill without treatment - yet we have a benefit for the people of Haiti on 12 TV stations. 99% of people won't have the guts to copy and repost this

Ok. What. the. HELL?!?!? Are you kidding me?! I find the entire attitude behind this statement to be offensive! So let's just reframe it, shall we?

America: I am so proud of you. Despite all our short-comings, all the problems we have to deal with at home, when someone needed help, we put our differences aside and we came. We gave. We helped. We dug deep to the tune of over $100 million. That's over a third of the entire global contribution. And that doesn't even begin to touch on the $1 billion plus that we've given to them over the last 5 years. This is what we do. Because we're Americans.

To those who do not share this love: The italicized statement above is a total piece of GARBAGE. We are not the only country with homeless, with hungry children, with elderly and mentally ill who need care. That's an asinine statement. To denigrate us just because we have the prosperity and the generosity of spirit to give in times of crisis, even when we haven't solved every single one of our own problems yet, only makes us greater, and you more petty, mean and small. Shame on YOU.

If I Were King of the Forest

If I were king of the forest, I'd make every day casual Friday. Or I'd demand that someone create the technology for instantaneous learning. Or maybe I'd just commission a statue of myself at my ideal weight.



But seriously, I'd like a show of hands, please. Raise your hand if you have ever said anything along the lines of "If I were president/in charge/ running things, etc... this is what I would do!" Yeah. Me, too. There are several things that I would like to see addressed specifically. But they'll take a lot of space, so I'm gonna break it down into one post per issue, so people don't just roll their eyes and leave.....y'know...any..sooner than they already do....



Ahem...So, in short (and no particular)order, I'll begin my list of issues and what'd I'd like to see done about them:






The Goddess's Presidential Agenda

• Congress
  
  
  
• Illegal Immigration
  
  
  
• The War on Terror
  
  
  
• Taxes
  
  
  
• The Federal Government in General
  
  
  

I saw an interview with Valerie Bertinelli on The Hour (which is probably my favorite TV show in the world right now. You should check it out.) in which she expressed annoyance at the "lies" that were being spread regarding our Fearless Leader's health plan, i.e., death panels. Her response was frankly terrifying to me. In essence, she said,"This is America. That won't happen!" Well, I'd like to remind her that the German people probably never thought their country would go the way it did, either. I'd also like to let her know that the argument that "This is America. It can't happen here" is totally bogus. It is precisely this attitude that creates the danger! Our freedom is as vulnerable as anyone else's. Freedom is a fragile, but resilient, thing. It requires a very specific environment in which to flourish. It can never be truly killed, but it can be driven, or given, away.



Stay tuned for my decrees in defense of American freedom.....