It Starts At The Dinner Table…..

By: J Robert Giles

@JRobertGiles

“Each day of our lives, we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”   - Charles R. Swindoll

 

It’s a cliché to say that being a parent changes the way you look at things. Of course it does. For most of us, becoming a parent means an abrupt, loud, and completely exhausting end to the life we had led to that point. It doesn’t matter how old the parents are or how well planned the pregnancy may have been, once that child arrives, the world of the parent is a completely different one. Parents find a joy in seeing the world through the eyes of their children. There’s an indescribable sense of pleasure to be found in watching your child figure out a concept with which you yourself struggled as a child. Some are more momentous like watching them suffer a competitive loss but take away the appropriate lessons. Others are more humorous like watching a 7 year old boy in complete awe of the “curly fry.” The feeling a parent has at the end of a really good day with their kids is a spiritual experience. It can’t be duplicated.

Is it too much to ask for a government who feels the same way about this country? Is it out of the realm of possibility for us to take control of the spiraling mess that has been created in Washington DC? A parent, even one whose abilities may have been called into question a time or two, would move heaven and earth to protect their kids. Does anybody in this country feel that our government would feel the same way about us as their kids? Many of the values that parents try to instill in their children are values our government does not believe in. Even the most selfish of men will do everything in his power to steer his kids clear of the mistakes he has made in his own life. A parent would recognize trends in their children that have led down destructive paths in their own history. Our government has no such instinct. A parent would gladly sacrifice time and emotion to impart the wisdom of independence onto his children. A parent wants their kids to know the sheer joy of working towards a successful goal. Whether that goal is athletic, scholastic, or personal a parent knows that the work put in is twice as valuable as the goal itself could ever be. Our government has chosen a different parenting style. Our government has chosen to breed a mentality of dependency. An involved and effective parent would never allow a child to label laziness and greed as anything but laziness and greed and we would never encourage our kids to demand the fruits of another man’s labor. A good parent knows that there is infinitely more pride to be found in independence than there will ever be in dependence.

If the government cared about America as a parent cares about their children, then the issue of debt would not be at the center of every election this country will face for the rest of my lifetime. Think about that…..the amount of debt we have allowed to accrue under just ONE President will still be a burden long after any of the eyes reading these words have closed for the final time. A parent doesn’t prepare their children for life in such a fashion. Those who do are the ones who benefit most from our government’s complete lack of responsibility. A parent who feels no remorse in leaving a staggering financial burden to their children doesn’t deserve to have kids in the first place. That doesn’t mean that all parents who leave a debt to their kids are failures, it just means that those who actively plan to do so are failures. While I make no attempt to hide the fact that I am conservative when it comes to politics, this issue goes well beyond party affiliation. Figuring out who is to blame for the decay in the relationship between citizen and government is just as big a waste of time as trying to figure out who started the fight between brother and sister. It doesn’t matter, it just needs to stop.

A good parent would never, in a million years, choose the interests of his or her friends over the safety and needs of his or her own children. Every time our government makes a decision based solely in ideology, that’s exactly what they’re doing. Every time Barack Hussein Obama kills a job-producing, price-at-the-pump reducing, pipeline proposal so that Canadian oil can still be transported via the railroads owned by a “close personal friend,” he’s choosing that friend’s needs over yours. Every time Barack Hussein Obama travels to Maine and meets with the Union Leaders but refuses to meet with the suffering fisherman who desperately need a morale boost, he’s choosing the needs of his  friends over yours. Every time His Barackness eats a puppy, he’s taking it directly from the hands of YOUR daughter. Every time Nancy Pelosi speaks, she’s defying what’s actually needed in favor of what’s needed to keep her and her friends in “power.” Every time Bill Clinton uses a Cuban cigar to pleasure his fat-chicks, he’s disregarding American need. Every time taxpayer money is used to advance ideology, it’s the same as you strapping your own children into the back of a Chevy Volt full of highly volatile, absurdly flammable, materials.

In November, it will finally be time for all of us to demand a better government. It will be time for all of us to stand up and scream until the “politicians” on Capitol Hill start behaving a little more like parents. The Presidential Election is only a symbol of that resolve. The results will come in our ability to stick to our demands well after the polls close. No longer can we stand by and allow horrible decisions to be made but only show concern when an election is looming. That’s what got us here. November will mark the family intervention that hopefully sets this country back on track toward the future we all know is waiting for us. A future that requires hard work by all, not just those who haven’t yet figured out how to milk the system. A future where dependency is frowned upon and integrity is honorable. A future where America stops wearing a diaper, puts on our big-boy pants, and finally starts to take more pride in the journey than the destination.

As always, thanks for playing.

J Robert Giles

Can The US Survive 4 Years of Obama?

Can The US Survive 4 Years of Obama?
Socialist/Democrats Dragging America Down to 3rd World Status!
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet

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The short answer to the question posed in the title to this piece is: NO! The long answer is: NO!

The Obama Regime has managed to do more damage to the United States of America in eleven short months than any other presidential administration in the history of the republic! And it is only in its first year!

We are broke. We are demoralized. We are extremely worried about the future of the country and, even more importantly, how it is going to affect our children and grandchildren, and we ARE MAD -- not angry – MAD!

Fellow Americans, we have a government out of control! That was never supposed to happen in America. The people are supposed to control the government. The people ARE the government! At least, we WERE. The people of the states created the federal government to act as an agent of the states, not the other way around. But, today, it is a topsy-turvey world in America, as the federal government demands the subservience of the states and the people of those states.

The socialists in the White House and the Congress are dragging America down to the level of a third world country at a speed that would have been unbelievable had we not lived through these past eleven months.

I hope Americans understand that we are LIVING HISTORY here! We have front row seats to the demise of the greatest country, ever, in the history of the planet. I now know how the ancient Romans felt as they watched their empire crumble and erode right in front of their eyes.

As I said, Americans are MAD! This President’s popularity rating has dropped faster than that of any US president since the late 1940’s. This President has spent more money than all US presidents added together! He has spent so much, and borrowed so much, and run the countries debt up so high, that it will take generations to pay it down. On top of that, we, as a country, are about to see our credit rating go down the toilet! It is embarrassing and it is humiliating.

And the spending continues! The socialists/democrats/progressives/communists are working quietly behind the scenes, hoping that you and I won’t notice, as they put together yet another “Stimulus” package. Of course, when it becomes public it will not be titled as a stimulus package. It will have some innocent sounding name, but, in fact, it will be another huge bailout batch of loot tossed down the sewer. This is more money that was, most likely, borrowed from Communist China.

Obama tells us he is creating jobs. No, he isn’t. The government simply transfers jobs from the private sector to the public sector. No jobs are actually created. That is why unemployment remains high and even rising while the President crows about how many jobs he has created.

Americans MUST get a grasp on the reality of the American government. Understand this: The US government has no money of its own. The US government cannot create wealth. And equally as important, we, absolutely, must come to understand that the US government cannot create jobs.

There are few of us old codgers around who actually have some remembrance of all the public works jobs FDR “created” during the Great Depression. If you bother to look at the figures you will see that unemployment figures, even with all those jobs FDR supposedly created, remained in the double digits! Obama is doing the same thing. It is slight of hand. It LOOKS good but that is all. It is “misdirection,” much as a magician, on stage, misdirects your attention elsewhere while he pockets the lost card.

Have you ever thought about how we are going to pay back all that money to China? Will we have to, oh, say, give them California to satisfy SOME of the loan? Or maybe Texas, or Alaska, or maybe they’ll take Florida, or they might be persuaded to take Yellowstone National Park as payment on the interest. As ridiculous as that may sound – it is not THAT far from the truth.

You know, we used to refer to the democrats as “Tax and Spend Democrats.” Now that they are Socialists, Marxists, and Communists, nothing has changed, except the Mainstream Media is in the tank for them. You see, the Mainstream media is riddled to the core with men and women of the same socialist, Marxist and communist political philosophy and they are not about to bad mouth their fellow travelers in the current government of the US.

The Socialist Left has had enough time, now, to infiltrate the journalism schools of our major universities and for decades, now, they have been turning out brand new socialist, Marxist, and communist journalists. The mainstream media is filled with them.

The question remains, however, of the survival of the United States after a four-year stint with Obama and his cadre of communists Czars. Can we survive? Honestly, I don’t see how it is possible. The damage the man and his minions has done, already, to the US will take generations to correct. We’re talking 30, 60, 120 years just to get us back to where we were upon his ascendancy to office.

It is an extremely costly mistake America made in electing Obama to the Presidency and handing over control of the Congress to the Socialist, Marxist, and Communists democrats. I only hope that once America has thrown off the yoke of Obama’s socialism it will forever forsake another experiment with socialism, Marxism, and communism. But, being realistic, I must say that we Americans, as a nation, have a short memory. In the decades ahead, we are sure to make this same mistake again. For the sake of the country, I hope there are enough men and women around who remember the Obama Regime and the damage it did to this country to enlighten the American electorate before it commits to another costly mistake.

We are a resilient people. We can suffer almost anything and survive, even triumph. But, dear reader, it will take everything we have to survive the Obama Regime. I would not bet on us making it.

J. D. Longstreet