I remember as a child(I was in grade 5 or 6) reading stories in history about the battle of Valley Forge and Saratoga. The crossing of the Delaware by George Washington and his brave brigade of patriot soldiers, Crockett and his volunteers defending the Alamo. Lewis and Clark mapping their way across the great expanse of this great country. I was in the school chorus at that age and we sang songs like The ballad of Jesse James, Bless the beasts and the children, High hopes(whoops there goes another rubber tree plant) and our Coup de grâce Grand Old Flag. The emblem of the land I love home of the free and the brave.
I was proud to be an American, I was proud of our leaders. I was proud to know that the leader of the free world and his associates where nothing but corrupt shysters. I was proud that a branch of our government was funding a secret war(with drugs...and history repeats its self ad nauseam) and America was blissfully in denial. Our military leaders did just what they were told even though every one knows they were just puppets to Presidents, Sheiks and Czars. We sat and watched as we went to war, in countries we could barely pronounce. Mean while at home Aids is running rampant, the number of homeless is in the millions.
So what has changed... nothing we still have millions of homeless. In some parts of the world Aids has claimed 25% of that regions population. Our government is ready to spend 40 billion dollars on a war no one really wants. We the People are paying millions of dollars just so two political ideologies don't blow each other off the face of the earth. Proud to be an American ..feh our founding fathers are probably rolling over in their graves. I know that we have some serious problems, I don't know what the answers are to the problems we face as a nation and a world.(I'm not a counselor nor do I play one on TV) What I do know is that our leaders need start being accountable for their actions, to start listening to what the people want, We the People who pay their salaries. Instead of spending billions of dollars to destroy things, spend those billions to heal what ails us.
Im still wondering when I lost my innocents and became so a cynical ...
Pissing and moaning again.
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