The situation that the United States finds itself in today is a direct outgrowth of the people not learning from the mistakes of the past. George Santayana said, “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” We are repeating it because the people in general haven’t been taught, and the leaders refuse to accept that the path they set before us is wrong. Man has become the guide instead of God and the Constitution.

As the man in the White House becomes better known to the people, some are beginning to understand that his change and hope is nothing but smoke and mirrors designed to install an agenda that is leading us to ruin. Two car companies are now owned by the government; banks are under control of his minions; czars are setting wages; and bureaucratic departments are issuing unconstitutional edicts to effect more control over us. They are getting by with their behavior because far too many people see nothing wrong with it. After all, they have been taught that government knows best no matter what it (politicians) decides to do.

In the second article, mention was made about the support that the government receives from callers to talk shows and in letters to newspapers. Support for the government has morphed into even stronger support by certain groups for the man in the White House, much like the support for FDR in his glory days. There is no rhyme or reason or rationale for the support the nut job (aka Barack Hussein Obama) is receiving from those supporters, but based on their comments and the letters it is a safe to say that they support him because he is black; he is a Democrat; he promised change; he is correcting the Bush years; he is helping the poor, and on it goes. They never stop to think that what he says is false. That is except for the promise of change no one understands except him. The foundation for all this ill-advised support is the lack of education in many areas, not the least of which has been and is the neglect of teaching about our constitutional republic.

Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on education each year and all we have to show for it are expensive buildings; graduates who can’t write, speak or do simple math; ill prepared for the rigors of life in the working world. In the words of Alfred E. Neuman of Mad Comics, “What me worry?” Perish the thought of worry. The government will provide for everything. But what will they do when the goose that lays the golden eggs runs out of eggs? They don’t worry about it since the government will take care of them. This is the sorry state of mind in the United States in the year 2010, and if we the people do not rise up and take control of our government at every level, our state of life will become most miserable and worrisome.

© 01-09-2010 DEC