American spirit isn't dead yet.

I just read the story that was reported by Glen Beck about the Vet whose wheelchair broke down at Lowes.  It was a feel good story for a change about how some of the employees took the time to tear into the chair and fix it.  The Veteran lost both his legs in Viet Nam and had been waiting for the VA to get him a new chair for months.  I truly commend the folks at Lowes who took the time to help but isn’t this what we should expect from fellow Americas.  Have we lost our compassion for people who are in distress.  Have we reached the point where we expect the government to solve all our problems?  This Veteran has every right to expect the VA to take care of his problem and I say shame on the poor system that let him down and the bureaucrats that allowed it to get to the point where it no longer seems functional.  Is this what we can expect from the government’s handling of the Affordable Care Act?  We as Americans have always had one thing that makes us different and that is our willingness to reach out when we see a problem.  This is what got us through the depression and two world wars, friends and neighbors willing to help those who were in need.  Now with a government run not by the people but by the same bureaucrats that have destroyed the Veterans Administration we need each other more than ever.   

Our Countries birthday

Friday we will celebrate our Countries 238^th birthday.  For some of us it is not one of our happiest birthdays as we have total upheaval in the Middle East due to a flawed foreign policy that will eventually have an adverse affect on our future.  We have chaos on our southern border that already is having an adverse affect on our future and we have a country that is being divided into several ethnic groups all with little trust for one another.  We are beginning to sound like Iraq.  I never thought I would live to see a day when Americans would actually allow this wonderful country to be so corrupted.  Our Constitution has little meaning as it is being interpreted in ways never considered by our founders.  Our government has become more totalitarian with each passing week and we have sat still and watched many of the rights we have fought and died for be usurped by political correctness.  No, this is not one of our best birthdays.  When polled last week only 28% of our population thinks of America as special.  We have a generation of kids being taught by the likes of Bill Ayres the founder of the Weather Underground, a man who considers this country as the problem in the world rather than the light on the hill for others to respect.  All across this nation we have similar professors polluting the minds of the young into believing that The United States is not exceptional in the world.  We spend so much of our lives making sure our children get a proper education and then we send them to colleges and universities where the pride in our country that we instilled in them is washed away by radical so called educators. 

It’s going to take younger people than me to bring our country back from this abyss and we can only hope we find the leaders among them that have the moral strength and the fortitude to put the Stars and Stripes back up on the hill we so lovingly call America.  The Leftists of this country have accomplished one thing, when they took God out of our lives they put us temporarily on the canvas but the soul of America burns on and with God’s help, strong leadership and American exceptionalism we will prevail.