Politics and Religion

Alright the title says it all and that is something that so many people say that you should not talk about. Politics and religion are those touchy subjects that people say not to talk about around the dinner table, around strangers, or at work for that matter.  So I guess our country has been taught that discussing the hot issues of the day might "offend" someone and you might just be carrying about a "brown box" from work.

It is truly sad that we live a in supposed free nation where the exchange of ideas was once one of the great things that separated us from the monarchies or the dictatorships of the world.  The United States of America has been molded into a nation of keep your mouth shut before you offend someone.  Well guess what?  Keeping my mouth shut offends me because our nation is failing because we can't talk politics or religion for that matter.

We cannot point out that extremist countries in the Middle East are "holding onto their guns and religion" while in our country President Obama made fun of Christians that believe in the 2nd Amendment and their religious beliefs that they hold dear.  Maybe President Obama should go to Mecca and go ahead and give his holding onto your guns and religion speech and see show that works out for him.  Now, that I have pointed that out, maybe I will be on the list of people that are on President Obama's attackwatch.com list.

I believe that we need to have the tough political discussions while we still have time to do so.  We are approaching an important Presidential election and need to talk about what issues face our nation and who is going to be "our leader" to get us out of this economic situation.  Don't get me wrong the President does not control the entire economy, but the President is the face of our nation and the world is always watching what the President is going to do or not do for that matter.

If you don't talk about religion I can understand since we do not live in a society that will kill you for not being with the "state sanctioned religion," but it is time that we discuss the issues that are affecting us in politics.  Politics surround us and we need to talk about the issues of the day before the issues we are talking about are $10 a gallon gasoline, $10 milk, and how we remembered the good old days of the 2010's.  It can happen my friends.  We must work on electing people that will turn this around.

A debt that has passed $16 trillion dollars and the President will not acknowledge it on late night T.V.  Ignorance is not bliss especially when our nation borrows over $3 billion a day to pay for our government to run welfare programs that we simply cannot afford, wars that we should have won years ago, and inefficient government that our politicians prop up with Chinese debt and inflation by printing more money.  The House of Cards if almost falling down and it is up to us to start talking about politics now before it is too late!

Work Ethic...

In a nation full of welfare and entitlement I wonder sometimes where is the work ethic?  Work ethic was one of those great things that built The United States of America into the nation that people wanted to move to for a better life.  Now with have a nation of just getting by and where is the next entitlement going to come from.

Many people in this nation have decided to take the easy way out and give up and allow the government to step in and give them welfare checks, food stamps, free cell phones with free texts, and many other government supported programs.  These programs are not for free my friends.  Someone has to pay for all of the government programs and as the work ethic in our nation disappears it will be harder and harder to find someone to take their earnings to fund this type of welfare state.

Who will have the work ethic still to keep the welfare rolls going?  Will people with work ethic let it slip away because a government full of regulations and taxation keep taking other people's hard earned money? A government that continues to punish people for having a good work ethic with more taxes is going to be counter productive as some people will simply not want to move up in companies or start businesses due to the amount of red tape, regulations, fees, and taxes.

The government that we have now is a government of oppression that is so difficult to deal with that people simply give up and fall into the welfare rolls and stay there and what happens next?  Welfare becomes a generational problem.  Children and grandchildren see how people can just live on the welfare system and don't have to have any work ethic and just get paid to live.  We are allowing future generations to fall into the welfare trap.

We are a nation that was built on great work ethic and if you didn't have work ethic you did not succeed.  If you didn't work then you did not eat and you could not provide for your family.  We need work ethic and sometimes you need to give someone the "kick in the butt" they need.  The kick in the butt our nation needs is to the welfare system that we have here and allow people to keep the money they earn.  Spend the money how they see fit because they earned it and with that money in the economy people can get jobs and start contributing to our nation instead of taking it with entitlements.

God Bless our great nation in our deepest time of need for better work ethic. 



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