American

in #politics7 years ago

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As I grow up we thought that we would change the World and we did in many ways but as I look back was it really for the good? We have all ways been a people divided in so many ways but when pushed come to shove Lady Liberty would stand and weigh the Truth then what was right would be done.
The American of my youth was not afraid to be who they really where, to say what they thought and to back it up with action. I don’t mean with violence but there was a show of power. Yes some times it did get to violence but on the most part that was fueled by the ones in control. Then to get the word out about what was happen we had the Newspapers and network news each night..
It was not all ways the truth but it was more trustful than what is shown to us today. Most reporters then prided there self’s in bring the truth to light no matter where it led. Today what we have are actors that read a scrip that is full of only what a few want you to believe and a lot of it is far from what could be called the truth.
Then we had reporters that would risk there lives and often lost it to cover the news, now there are some who lie to us about there risk. Then we had real heroes, people that could be looked up to as role models. People like Kennedy, Armstrong and Cousteau. To whom today can you call role models. Yes there are a few out there still but most pay them little thought.
When you wanted information back then you had to go to your local library and hoped they had what you where looking to learn. Today the youth of the World have more information at there finger tips than they can use, but not all of it is real. You can never be sure if the information is the truth. Just because its up on a web site does not mean it is. You must really look to make sure that what you read is not put there to push some kind of agenda.
We where able to ride bikes, build tree house and go fishing when ever we wanted, now the youth need to register there bikes, where helmets. To build a tree house they had better get a permit and if you want to go fishing or sell a cup of lemon aid they need to be licensed or could go to jail. Back then if some one came here illegally they where sent back to where they come from. Today they are given a place to live, food stamps, a phone and health care.
We where a county of farmers and know how to work the land as our for fathers did. We had choirs to do before going to school. Today it has become all most illegal to teach the children to be able to support them self’s. When we did some thing that we know was wrong we would get a spanking but today if that happens you could have your child taken from you.
As I sit here watching the World I wonder how we could have let it go this far. Then I was proud to be an American now I’m not so sure I can say that. We where a county that the rest of the World wanted to be like now they fear us or I should say they fear our leaders and what they may do. We are no longer a nation of free thinkers or a pillar freedom in a dark World.
We have become robots to the system and few pay any thought to what is happening as long as it does not change the way that they live. The system in place would take our tax money and spend it on wars in other county’s and give it to people that are here illegally as people from here are homeless and in need of food. To me it would seam that Lady Liberty has lost her children to a World of materialism and greed.
I miss the America that I grow in and find it hard to understand how it was aloud to change in the ways that it has. We have let others do the thinking for us and blindly fallow what we have been told was best for us. There is only one way to change this and that is to stand up and say enough is enough. We must do our own thinking. We as a people have the power to change the way things are but I fear it may be to late. We are the only ones that can fix what we have aloud to happen. Please think about what I have said and remember this is just the way I see things.

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