Dear Erick

Today I am ticked off at one of my favorite pundits, Erick Erickson said something uncaring today: that people who declare bankruptcy over medical bills are just doing it to remove their responsibility to pay it. I'd like to box his ears.

Let's cut to the chase: Conservatives are mad as hell because the current administration is constantly giving away things to people who don't work, who refuse to take responsibility for their own lives. They want government handouts. And we're sick of it. I frankly don't like Obamacare any more than any other Conservative. It forces me to buy something. I don't believe the government has a right to do that. But I also think Mr. Erickson needs a heart re-direct.

Sometimes life deals us some whammies that take away all of our ability to handle them. I am a Christian- my Father in Heaven always takes good care of me. I trust Him with my heart, my life, my future. I worked hard in law enforcement most of my adult life . But let me ask you, Mr. Erickson- what will you do the day you get very sick and are faced with a stack of medical bills that reaches the ceiling? You're probably very wealthy. You're very young. You probably have a "cadillac" insurance plan. Some of the rest of us unfortunately are not in that class. We're on fixed incomes. We get sick and we get stuck. We can't afford what you can afford.

You came off very uncaring today. I think you should repent, back the truck up, and really start caring about the people around you. Take your head out of the political rhetoric and remember that real people have real problems and sometimes they are out of our control. Not everyone is irresponsible leaky trailer trash. Stop generalizing. Get it right.

From Exploration to Implosion

This week has seen some real nutcase actions so far by the government. We have the government filing a lawsuit against Arizona for trying to enforce the law. ????(Smart, I tell ya, real smart.)

We have the Obama-Netanyahu meeting where everybody smiled for the cameras, when you know that both men would like to take a brick and "bless" the other upside the head. Bibi would win.

We have the recess appointment of some idiot who wants socialized medicine to a major Medical oversight department in the government. Sigh.

Frankly the worst ding-dong issue is one you might not have noticed:

Excerpt from www.RedState.com (Erick Erickson)
"NASA: From the Moon to Mecca
From the "you can't make this up" file, President Obama is turning NASA into his Muslim-outreach agency. According to Fox News, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden says that NASA's foremost mission in 2010 is to improve relations with the Muslim world.
Pause. Re-read. Pause. Huh? Yes. Re-read again.
He went on to say, "[w]hen I became the NASA administrator - or before I became the NASA administrator - [President Obama] charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science . and math and engineering."
Now, reasonable people can disagree about what NASA should be doing and how much we should spend on a national space program. But come on - are you serious?"
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Excuse me.Our President has lost what little mind he had left. NASA is a SPACE exploration program. Not the space between your ears, the space out there in the cosmos. He just destroyed the hopes and dreams of thousands of potential astronauts who wanted to see the universe- now they are supposed to stroke Arabs like puppies to make them feel better. Good grief.If we needed more counselors in the government, he should have tasked the Department of Health and Human Services, not the Space Agency! Yikes.

If these times seem totally bizarre to you, it's because our leader has never known God personally, nor has he ever loved America. He grew up in bitterness, obviously.

The Islamic political system is based upon hatred of those not involved in it. It is not strictly a religion, it is a political governing based upon bitterness and anger and jealousy. Hosea Ballou, one of our nation's early leaders, once said that "any religion which requires hatred to sustain it, is of the devil's own propogation."

True love allows people to fulfill their potential, allows them to grow and become all that God intended. The definition of these things in our current leadership is one of control and supression, not expression. Exploration is a form of expression. It is an optimistic view of the universe, one that says there are things yet to be discovered. Turning that program inward is a destroyer of hope.

When the Apollo program landed on the moon, in spite of the deaths, in spite of the setbacks, something marvelous happened: the entire world sat glued to their TVs, excitedly watching a new era of exploration. It was a great day. It was a day of hope.It was a day of horizons reached, of fresh trails to blaze. The same happened when President Bush suggested that we shoot for Mars. A new horizon to touch, a fresh journey to embark upon...great excitement washed all over America that day. It didn't last.

Along comes Obama, who takes those hopes and smashes them by changing the very nature of new horizons. No longer do we have something exciting to look forward to, now we have to walk backwards into the old. Now we have to grovel in the swamp of bitterness and people who feel sorry for themselves. No thanks, Mr. President. I hope that enough people start squawking about this "decree" so it will fall.

Independence Day

So today is the celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence for the United States. It's the day that started a long and bloody war for the right to live in freedom from control by the government of England. Since our children, our teens, our college students are being given a version of history that is a flat lie, I thought today I should prepare a dose of quotations from some of our more famous forefathers.

The following were not written in the National Review, or the Newsmax Magazine, nor were they quotes from Erick Erickson, Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, or Laura Ingraham. They are from the people who created the foundation for American principles. Our current crop of leaders are nothing like them. Our current leaders couldn't say something eloquent if it were written on their teleprompters. Happy 4th of July- and may the principles set before by our forefathers be rekindled among us!
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"There are persons who constantly clamor. They complain of oppression, speculation, and pernicious influence of wealth. They cry out loudly against all banks and corporations, and a means by which small capitalists become united in order to produce important and beneficial results. They carry on mad hostility against all established institutions. They would choke the fountain of all human civilization." Daniel Webster 1782-1852

"Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people." Henry Clay (1777-1852)

"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object."
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time."
Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826

"Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy." Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and for his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865