“Americans:” Words from a Mother
I want you to remember something for me. I want you to remember this when you hear negativity about the country you come from – America.
The heart of the American people — the other 99.99 percent are good, giving, kind-hearted people. No one can pull together like Americans behind a mission. Your niece is one example. We had people pulling over on freeways, drop everything, check the map and head for Chisholm, Minnesota because they were compelled to look for a beautiful, little five year old, and they wanted, really wanted, to make a difference. (Note: My niece, Leanna, was abducted in 2003 and has yet to be found.)
The Americans — we give, and give and give and give to foreign nations and third world countries that don’t have oil, Jeff. They have nothing, and we ask nothing. Is our government 100% honest? Hell, no. But, many of our legislatures, and mayors, and governors — and even our president that we don’t like at all (Mom’s and dad’s preference) — still believes in the greater good.
Our hard earned tax dollars do work — and our troops in dangerous places do incredible humanity good works — and the world never acknowledges this — our own country often times does not — but the world does not understand this great country and the American heart of a nation.
We are the most regulated country in the world — probably the most environmentally aware country, right to the detriment of our own American workers because of it — and the world doesn’t understand this. And the trend is not to try to hoard the world’s oil but to find safe alternative energy resources, and that is what our country has a huge movement of investing in (editor’s note: even though it may be tied to economic motivation).
We don’t want to be tied to an enemy country. We are at war, and it is costing the American people so much — retirement savings (including ours) are gone, and we will never see the end of the taxes for this war on terrorism (right or wrong decision of a president, he too acted on what he thought was right but on bad intelligence). And the sad part about all this is other areas of the world are becoming even more polluting and gluttonous than we have been over oil. China and other countries are becoming way larger consumers than we ever dreamed of being.
Be proud you are from the USA, Jeff, for this is great country in spite of its issues. We are still free, and while there is poverty and crime, our children are not living on garbage dumps in fly-infested filth, nor are they sold for body parts. Troubles? Sure. Has the Lord blessed us? Yes. He is blessing the heart of Americans. The giving heart of the middle class — and yes, the giving heart of many corporates and the wealthy.
When we stop giving — the Lord is going to take us out. I pray this never happens…
Love:
Mom
Jesus taught us to love one another as we love ourselves. he gave His life for the forgiveness of our sins. sins of prejudice, hatred racism. yes God will take out those who stop giving equality to all humans and the whole earth. respect one another.
politically, Obama did not create this mess. who was in charge the majority of the last decade? when the democrats ran this state, we had a surplus budget. where did that money go? food stamps were cut, medical was cut, social service agencies were cut. when unions had power, illegal aliens was not an issue. why?? because unions certify their workers status. unions stood by their workmanship. unions protect the work environment, provide insurance in case of catastrophic work injuries.
what would mom think? what would dad think?