AN APOLOGY

Hello friends,

Recently I have had several people comment on the fact that I haven't been blogging for the last several months. Please accept my apology for not keeping up with commenting on current events. To be perfectly honest with you, I think I just got overwhelmed and burned out. Too much frustration and anger. Every single day the news has been a confirmation of just how far we have fallen, how far we've gotten from the principles this "used to be great" country was founded upon. The feeling that I've been beating my head against a brick wall for the last 20 plus years, trying to open peoples eyes to what is happening.

Here are a very few examples of depressing news from the last several weeks:
*The reactions to the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona. How the liberals insist on blaming the political right, Sarah Palin, and private ownership of guns for the actions of a very obviously mentally ill individual. Well it's certainly nothing new for them to ignore plain evidence and twist everything to promote their socialist agenda.
*The deficit reduction hearings and bs going on in D.C. Why is it when they talk about cutting "entitlement" programs they talk about social security and medicare? I have yet to hear one word about welfare. Oh, that's right, we don't have welfare anymore. No, we have WIC, food stamps, housing assistance, medical cards, child care reimbursement and on and on ad infinitum. Last time I checked, they were still taking OUR money (those of us who still have jobs, that is) for social security and FICA. Is it a government entitlement to get your own money back?
*The Democrats responses to the Republican threat to NOT increase the US debt limit. What is so damn hard to understand that the country is on the verge of bankruptcy and collapse? That we CANNOT continue spending like drunken sailors?

Well, it's been raining here all day, and I've had nothing much to do but watch the news. Here's where we're at today: President Osama address the Chamber of Commerce. Watched for about 15 minutes till I was so angry I could have put my fist through my TV. I ask again, WHAT world do these people live in? Certainly not the same world most of us do. According to Osama, it's all the fault of technology and a global economy and there is nothing we can do about it except educate our children better. (More on that later.) Thanks, Mr. President, I feel so much better now, knowing it's not my fault. We'll certainly enjoy our dinners of milk toast or mac and cheese (all we can afford now) knowing that it's no fault of our own that we're now dirt poor. Not our fault that we can't afford $3.50 gal gas to commute to a minimum wage job.

Ah yes, todays education news: 11 or 12 year old boy expelled and escorted from school by armed police for shooting spit balls from a 6 inch tube. Oh yes, it's part of our zero tolerance policy on weapons. One more perfect example of the complete lack of COMMON SENSE by teachers and school administrators. Not that the kid shouldn't be punished for disrupting class, but whatever happened to detention? Or much better yet, a swat from a paddle???? Oh, sorry, we wouldn't want to hurt the kids self-esteem, so we'll have him arrested.

Mr. President, in case you missed my earlier posts on our educational system I'll repeat. You cannot fix our educational system until we fix our parenting problems, and that is going to take at least one generation, but more likely two. That's 20 to 40 years sir. You will not fix childhood obesity, juvenile diabetes, or "I'm entitled to have the government take care of me" attitudes until you FIX PARENTING. You will not fix our educational system until you remove the liberal idiots running our teaching colleges. AND, Mr. President, you need to realize that not every child or person in this country is capable of becoming a doctor, lawyer, engineer or scientist. We also need jobs for people of average and below average intellegence. We need manufacturing, blue collar, and laboring jobs that actually pay a living wage. You know, like we used to have before greedy American corporations moved our jobs to low wage countries so they could put millions more in their pockets and we left the southern border wide open to illegal immigrants who are willing to work for nothing and milk our medical and social support systems dry???? When are you going to close the border???? Why, when we have American truckers sitting for days on end waiting for another load, is the Federal Highway Administration allowing Mexican trucking companies free unfettered access to the entire USA???? Can you explain this to a dumb farmer like me Mr. President????

In the next few posts I will once again propose concrete solutions for many of the problems that plague our society and country today. Be warned, there are no easy solutions that won't offend anyone. It's taken 30 years to get in this dilemma, it won't be fixed without pain, or overnight. But if we don't fix it, the average American will be living in poverty in another 15 to 20 years.

Thanks for listening to me rant,
Dumb Farmer