Brushfire of Freedom
The Conservative Cowboy
I have written before on entitlement see (A New Generations Shift in Ideology) but today I want to talk about it in terms of our Veterans. Hold on tight because this could get a bit ugly, and I am so angry when I read the headlines about our commander and chief talking today at Arlington National Cemetery. I also get angry when I hear him make comments about how religion had nothing to do with the tragedy at Fort Hood. Something along the lines that God does not justify violence. Well I would have to counter that with a little history, a little thing called the Crusades. Now please keep in mind that I am not bashing religion just simply stating that very violent actions are often done in the name of God.
But that is not what this week’s post is really about; I just had to bring up another point where the President of this great nation failed to do his homework. This week’s post is about a lesson that we can learn from the very people that were honored yesterday, and that is the American Soldier.
Right now our country is full of people asking themselves what the Government is going to do for them, the government needs to provide me with low cost healthcare, the government needs to regulate the banks so they can’t take advantage of me, the unions need to get me a raise. I am sorry but we have become a nation of whiners and entitled pansies; afraid of a hard day’s work and afraid of actually doing something to better our own situation. Yes it is scary to have all of that responsibility on your own shoulders but it is necessary for the people of this country to shoulder the responsibility the same way that our Men and Women in uniform have been doing for over 200 years.
You see in the military everyone has a responsibility, one that is done when in combat and one that is done in peacetime. This country is no different, what happens when someone fails on their responsibility? Well to use a cliché “the team is only a good as its weakest link”. Well in this case the team is this country, and we have a whole lot of weak links right now and that number is growing as fast as the size of the Government.
In the past in this country it didn’t matter what curves life would throw at you, or how much “bad luck” was in your life, we never asked what someone else could do to fix the problem because we all knew that we had a responsibility. The responsibility to pick ourselves back up and fix our situation, because ultimately we were in that situation because of something that we did or that we didn’t do. Now as a country we try to justify the bad situations by trying to find someone else to blame, our employers, our Government, our insurance company, or even our fellow man.
I don’t know why the people of this country cannot understand the simple fact that if you do something on your own to better your situation you are ultimately bettering the situation of the group. That is a very simple logic that our Government is failing to recognize. Failing to recognize by increasing the taxes on the successful and continuing to spoon feed the unsuccessful. My answer to this problem is to take a page form our service men and women that we are honoring this Veterans Day and spend our time not thinking about who to blame but focusing instead on how to get out of the hole that we are in as a country, and that starts with the individual and works its way up the ladder, it cannot come from the top down as our liberal Government believes that it can.
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