[day 240-272: politicians and pocketbooks]

it's official. i am a terrible blogger.

it's just because life

keeps getting in the way...

which is a great thing!

because life is great!

anyways...i just started this

history class

in effort to get my

associates by the end of this year.

my teachers name is dr. frederickson,

and she is fabulous.

for those of your who know me,

you know that i have never been very

politically inclined....

and that's not really why i'm here.

the last thing i want to do

is get into a political debate about anything.

i've just had some thoughts that are in the

realm of politics...

lok, more like on the outside border. ha

two weeks ago in class,

we were discussing the departing address

of george washington.

he was a great man,

and for those of you that don't know...

he was the first president of our country!

(cut down a cherry tree...on the $1 bill. haha)

anyways, in his address,

he said two things that

have stuck with me...

first he said that as americans, we need to

cherish public credit.

put simply...washington believed that

our nation would be the most successful

it it kept its money circulating within our borders.

now, i know that with the global economy,

there is no way we can do that...

we couldn't survive as a nation.

but, it leaves one to question where our money

IS actually going.

would the founding fathers agree with

what our national government has gotten us into?

really...think about it.

in a world that is being torn apart by

war and famine

and natural disasters,

we are slowly and surely killing our nation

with national debt...

and it is piling. daily.

for someone who is a part of the

"rising generation",

what is going to be left for me?

really??

at this point,

i will have no social security waiting

for me when i retire,

because it's all being used for a

national adgenda.

rather than outsource,

why don't we start to restablish

and cherish our own public credit?

why don't we being to use

the hundreds of thousands

of americans that are out of work?

why don't we chreish the

spirit that build america

bring back the benefits of being

a working man [or woman]

to america?

i'm not on this soapbox

because i'm unhappy with my life...

i have been very blessed and am so grateful for it.

but i am wary as to where this nation in going to

be in 20 years...even 10 years.

i hope that someday,

politicians can put away their pocketbooks

and think about the future they are leaving for

my generation.

my children.

even my parents...

i don't know if that will ever happen though.

there is too much taking and not enough giving...

too much person gain to be had.

but maybe, there will be a day where the

true american dream is revisited,

and the working man will be called back to his rightful place.

maybe we'll actually begin to appreciate

the value that is found in our own

backyard...and cherish our public credit.

just a thought...