Our country was in a tailspin prior to September last year. We have it so stinking good here. Go visit any, and I mean any, other country. No one has what we have in such quantities and for so cheap. What we take for granted here is so far out of reach for the rest of the world. We make so much money, are mobile beyond belief. We have such extensive and immediate communication capabilities from the CIA down to the clerk at Wal Mart who has a cell phone hanging on his side and a GPS in his car. We can drive for 20 hours and never have to cross a true political border. We never have to submit to frequent search and seizure. The future of our country was threatened due to this softness and privileged upbringing. We have kids who don't give a sh17 about patriotism. Who never knew that we can be vulnerable. That our country's framwork can still be shaken. No one here has ever needed to fear our own Government. That is unless they chose to be in violation of our well known, well posted, very well publicised and easily researched laws. Yes we have cruddy taxes. Our President doesn't make everyone in this country happy (who the He&& can?). We need to have a reason to be patriotic. We need to have a reason to respect those which uphold our laws and those that keep our internal framework intact. We don't have a perfect President. I am sure no-one here can name any President, any candidate, any Government representative who makes everyone pleased with his or her job. It will never happen. We have to accept what we have and accept that the person in power pulls the strings. Yeah, the Bush family is one heck of an influential and powerful family. Quite possibly the Kennedy's of the future. They've obtained that power and maintain it by being brutal, sometimes dishonest, and what can be construed as unethical. I don't think power is obtainable without haveing to participate in what the mainstream percieves as bad behaviour. Bill Gates, who quietly donates billions of $$ to charitable organizations, educational programs, schools and uncountable other charities, is no angel. Even Bill Gates has been accused of being less than clean. No-one is immune from having to pull something off the wall to get into a position of ultimate authority. The people who criticize those in power for taking advantage of certain situations to get there, will never be in a position of any real power themselves. Accept what we have. Appreciate what we have. Support whomever is in power. Use your 1st amendment right. We are on the road to better times. Usually it takes a war to jumpstart the economy. We'll see how it pans out. Just feel safe in knowing that what you have and who you are, was, is and always will be, will always be protected from external harm better than any other country or Government. If you want to know what the biggest threat to your portion of the world is, just look in the mirror.
