All This Free Stuff is Destroying Us

I received this email forward the other day, I think it's brilliant.

The folks who are getting the free stuff,don't like the folks who are paying for the free stuff, because the folks who are paying for the free stuff can no longer afford to pay for both the free stuff and their own stuff.

The folks who are paying for the free stuff want the free stuff to stop, and the folks who are getting the free stuff want even more free stuff on top of the free stuff they are already getting!

Now... The people who are forcing the people who pay for the free stuff have told the people who are RECEIVING the free stuff, that the people who are PAYING for the free stuff, are being mean, prejudiced, and racist.

So... The people who are GETTING the free stuff have been convinced they need to hate the people who are paying for the free stuff by the people who are forcing some people to pay for their free stuff, and giving them the free stuff in the first place.

We have let the free stuff giving go on for so long that there are now more people getting free stuff than paying for the free stuff.

Now understand this. All great democracies have committed financial suicide somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded. The reason? The voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury by electing people who promised to give them money from the treasury in exchange for electing them.

The United States officially became a Republic in 1776, 235 years ago. The number of people now getting free stuff outnumbers the people paying for the free stuff. We have one chance to change that. In 2012. Failure to change that spells the end of the United States as we know it.

September 11-10 Years Later

Wow, I have been watching the news and specials that have been on all week in regards to the anniversary of 9/11. Most of us will never forget that day, I know I won't...but on the other hand it seems like most of us have. Look where we are after that terrible day in history and only 10 short years ago. Who could have ever have imagined that people would be seriously arguing about letting any religious prayer be part of the memorial service? What's a memorial service if you are going to leave God out of it completely? We live in a country where the overwhelming majority of people identify as Christian or have a religion, and clergy were some of the first people to respond on 9/11 to minister to victims. Why aren't they welcome today? It's like I've said before, we are so busy being "politically correct" that we are leaving God out of everything. Are we better off today than yesterday? Are our streets safer, our schools better, our morals at a higher standard? I know what some people think, if you have one religion represented you have to have another, and that is where people are divided. But I think they make it much more complicated than need be. I am Christian. I'm okay with a Catholic Priest, a Christian Pastor, a Mormon Bishop, a Jewish Rabbi, a Protestant and yes even an Imam coming together and giving a blessing, saying a prayer, seeking God in this mess we have made of everything. After all, if we don't start leaning on God and putting it in His hands, how will we ever be a great nation again?