THOUGHTS FOR AFTER THE 4TH OF JULY

                                   

Whenever I am with a group of people, be at a church, a school or any kind of social gathering my attention often gets drawn to the young people. I see them in this care free world they are in and then I think of where they will be in a few a short years, when they will inherit this messy world we have left them. I think to myself ‘It wasn’t like this when we got it. Oh maybe a little bit but not like it is today.” I think also, “We failed them terribly and now they will have to suffer for it.”

We failed them because we took what was working so well and let it slip away and somehow called it progress. In many cases, letting things exist. or come into being that have no socially redeeming value. That isn’t progress but only change, for the sake of change. It all happened because we thought we were being progressive but in all actuality we were letting it happen, just to get them off our backs. Every great society that has failed-- and truth be told that’s most of them-- went down the tube this same way. They all thought it wouldn’t happen to them ---but it did and it will, to us too or should I say not us, but our kids.

I’m no clairvoyant. I have no special powers or insight. I’m just a common guy who somehow managed to hold on to the God given common sense we all are born with. We all know what’s good and what’s bad for this country. The problem is, not all of us give a hoot and it’s showing big time.

Let’s look at some facts and figures. Right now, today, our kids are going to inherit 17 trillion dollars of government debt. It is a financial hole that only a miracle can get us out of and you know what is the worst part? We have nothing to show for it. Nothing but failed wars and social programs that were doomed from the start. I’m not talking about all of the social programs. I’m talking about the ones that are filled with graft and corruption that did nothing but make people who were already rich, richer. Social disparity gets worse every day in this country. How do you go forward,  how do you reconcile this country when there is no level of trust amongst the classes.

When you have no moral conscience, and that is the way we are heading, that’s how things like this get started. The opposite of love is hate. The opposite of sharing is greed. The opposite of humbleness is narcissism. The opposite of power sharing and leadership is power grabbing and control. All of these bad things are the opposite of what our founding fathers had in mind for this country. They knew they wouldn’t live forever but they wanted this country to carry on and be a bastion for freedom for century’s to come. But in one short century we made it all crash. I hope and pray it’s not too late but it’s going to take a herculean effort to get back on track and give those kids, I talked about at the start of this, something to work with. If we can’t do that, then all of the upcoming 4^th of Julys in the world are only going to be lip service every year when they come around and todays and yesterdays generation will only be remembered for one thing. They were the people who ruined our country.