The Decline of America

It is humorous  to contemplate why America is in decline, because it isn't caused by the Government, it is caused by the people.  We the people are the problem, we choose who represents us in the primaries and elections.  We should make them uphold and respect the law as it was and as it is written when this great country was formed.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

How many people have read this document the constitution?  It is the manual or instructions that shows us how to operate the government.  Sadly, we all want to take the short cuts and trust someone else to tell us how it works.  I guess we want the book, "The Constitution for Dummies."  We will buy this book and never read it and our government will not change.

Today, we want to blame everyone but ourselves for the circumstances that have put our country where it is economically, politically and morally.  We no longer want to work, we only expect that we are owed.  Look at our country as a whole and and you will have your answer.

hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel       them to the separation.

What is sad to me is that we need to recognize what the Laws of Nature and Nature's God are, and when we as a country fail to do that we will fail just as the Roman Empire did.  Sadly the similarities are the same for this great country and that of the Roman Empire.  When the moral course of the country is lost and that compass no longer functions we begin the decline.

The people define the course of America, and the people can correct that course only if the choose to do it.  If the real Americans don't speak nothing will change.

If we don't read the manual, understand our rights, understand that the government is subservient to the people, and that the Constitution must be upheld,  we will only be led down the path of failure.

The New Revolution

I graduated high school in 1979 and it is our generation that has slowly shaped the country we come to live in today.  I am sad at what I see.  I don't see a country that will offer the diversity of opportunity to my son and his family.  I don't see a country that represents the freedom that our forefathers fought to have and give to future generations.  I don't see a government of the people, for the people, by people...  I don't see a country that tolerates religious freedom and expression of those beliefs.  I don't see a country that seemingly doesn't exemplify life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The American people have slowly given up the ideals of democracy, capitalism and freedom to become ensnared in a trap that some how claims we are entitled. The only thing we are entitled to is our own mistakes and the consequences of those choices.

In the last 20 years our country has really changed.  Is it for the better or the worse?

Welcome to the revolution and most of us don't realize that it is happening.

We are not alone

1984, Brave New World, Watergate, wire taps, phone taps, opening our mail, drones, street cameras, cookies, tracking, Facebook, twitter, GPS, NSAand black boxes.

Someone, some government or even a friend knows where, what and possibly why you are doing something.

Welcome to civilization and computers.

We are becoming a society that will soon not have books, records, handwritten letters, or privacy.

Just look and see the trail that you leave everyday offline or online.

Change

Change.

Isn't there something we would like to CHANGE in ourselves or others.  Change...what a great word, but isn't it difficult to implement.

I look back at the election and I recognize one thing.  Conservative talk radio needs to change.  The Republican party needs to change.  Voters need to change in order to bring about change.

If you have a routine in place, where you get your hair cut, where you buy your groceries, or even your coffee; you are comfortable.  Being comfortable is hard to change.

Why do we need to see change?  Change is that mutation that pushes us to the next level.  Change is something that results in making something work different or even better.

If the country is going to change and take a different path a new message and an image has to be constructed.  This is true with everything.  If you are starting a business you have to have an image, a message, and you have to make to it work.

Anything we try to change has to succeed on all levels.

Change = goal + image + message

If you want to lose weight it involves change.
 
If you want to quit smoking you have to change.

If you want to improve your life you have to change.

Change.