Iraqi People Regain Control of Their Country

Well it was a big day in Iraq today!  They are shooting off fireworks In Baghdad and Tikrit with no mustard gas attached this time. That fact alone makes everyone there immensely happy. They are taking their country back. They have overcome!

But.. overcome what?

Am I the only who thinks they didn’t actually do anything take their country back?  Actually I realize that statement is a bit unfair.  Thousands of Iraqis did try, and thousands more were slaughtered for it.  It just seems to me that people will take better care of what they worked hard for and earned on their own than they will something that was in large part handed to them.  It is for this reason I worry about the fate of Iraq when all the political dust settles how it may.

It is also for this reason I worry about the state of America today.  Truth be told, we were handed our country also.  None of us here today were living in the woods drinking whiskey and eating squirrel meat while dodging bullets from redcoats. (Of course, dodging is an overstatement as they could only fire one bullet every two minutes) None of us were on the battlefields or in the President’s office with George Washington. In fact, the only remaining veterans of a war that America actually won are at least 80 years old now.  And while they have certainly earned the respect of a grateful nation, the time when great men like that guided our country though times of trouble has long since passed.  And truth be told, how many of us ARE TRULY grateful to these men?  Very very few, 99.9% of Americans have no true appreciation for the country we were given.  Virtually none of us honestly realize the sacrifice and suffering it takes to create a nation like this. 

People say our children are spoiled more today than ever before, but this is only because their parents are more spoiled than any generation in the history of the world.

We had a paradise handed to us and we let it fall apart bickering over a million things that do not matter, while forgetting to take care of what we had and diligently protecting it like our forefathers did.  We have developed a sense of entitlement that is going to be our downfall.  The men and women who made America the greatest country ever are no longer running it.  Our belief that we are the greatest country in the world has made us lazy.  Serioiusly, what have ANY of us done to actually make a claim like that?  The answer is simple, nothing!  Our elected leaders have let us down horribly dating all the way back to at least the 1960’s, all of them. Politics in America has become a profession, a career.  The people in positions that truly were serving Americans 100 years ago are now forced to serve special interest groups; forced to negotiate and compromise away any ideas that stand a chance of helping the American people.  Our system is broken, not just banged-up, BROKEN!  How do you even begin to turn around a losing streak like that?  You don’t.  Dark days ahead folks, very dark days.

Our infrastructure is falling apart and will begin failing soon with catastrophic results. Our economy is about to collapse and we will be back to a two-class system, the haves and the have-nots (herein referred to as “the other poor schmucks”).  Middle class you are going away, so if you’re planning to climb out and hang out with Bill Gates and all the other scummy billionaires that destroyed our country, you’d best get your preppy asses to work right now. I’ll be down here with the other poor schmucks living in what is going to rapidly turn into a 3rd world country when all bridges, levees, water mains and power grids fail.  And yes, I said when, not if.  I know nobody is going to listen or care, because nobody has been listening or caring for over 50 years, but that is where we are headed.  The facts are undeniable, in spite of the fact that eveyone is denying them.

So for one day, yes we need to worry about Iraq and what is going to become of a struggling, shaky democracy. Then tomorrow we need to realize we have more in common with the Iraqi people than we think, and start worrying about our own country, getting serious about fixing everything that is broken right now.

All we have to do is make sure that no one currently in power in Washington is allowed to continue there in any capacity!

Man, we are screwed.