For The People By The People?

One of the most beloved things about America is the
freedom other countries hear that we have. My wife
is from the Philippines, a drop-down wonderful place.
After we married, I discovered half of her friends
wanted to come to the United States, the other half
thought the stories they heard about America were to
good to be true. I suppose a lot of those stories were.

Some of her friends had heard money came easy here and
life was grand. They had read about magnificent homes
that sparkled, fantastic employment opportunities, and
all that glitters is gold. I have tried to tell them
the truth, Filipinos here have tried to tell them the
– but will they listen? No many will.

Its true our nation has never known the scourge of
debtor prisons. Your not in danger of being beheaded
once you step outside, and a good education is available
for those who will work for it – provided you don’t use
the government schools to get it. Shopping malls are
popping up everywhere, and the auto industry turns out
the finest of automobiles of any country. But, here in
American everything that glitters is NOT gold, and you
certainly don’t always get what you want.

Most of the reasons so many from other countries want to
come here – doesn’t exist here the way they have been told.
These beautiful dreams of finding a rich and wonderful life
here often ends up being just that, nothing more than a
fleeting dream for many. To be able to be really free, the
government has to be controlled by the people, for the
people as it was intended. However, I am afraid it is
becoming a governmental state for the “Elite” instead of for
the “People”. To press my point, how many laws were passed
in the first part of this year alone we where we, the
citizens, had no voice in? There are laws and bills that are
constantly coming up for votes we never hear about, there
will be more before the year is finished. Those laws and bills
“DO” effect each and every one “us” every day in some way and
we often never hear a word about them until it is too late to
object. The only ones who seem immune are the law makers
themselves. Once the law is passed, it takes a massive
undertaking to have it reversed. Think about it!

When I was in the public school system, the teachers then were
terrible at educating the students. I was an avid reader of
subjects they probably never knew existed. Most of the people,
whom did know, saw such subjects as science fiction. Other
students thought I was a head case in need of Special Attention,
but if they would look back and compare those days of the 1960’s
with today, they would see what they considered science fiction
then was reality today. I failed a lot giving answers according
to the information I had read (outside of school textbooks). The
teachers failed me because my answers were not in compliance with
school literature. As a result, I always felt the public educators
had something to hide. I lost all trust in them and turned to
reeducating myself as much as possible while at the same time,
giving them the answers they wanted.

That is roughly what is going on today in the government, what we
(the citizens of this country) want is not in compliance with what
our elected officials want. The congress and senate push one thing,
religious institutions want another and those of us on the
sidelines have little opportunity to be heard. That is if we even
know about the votes to begin with. Our government (and the religious
institutions) appears to no longer be for the people and by the
people, but for themselves and we are left feeling the effects of the
constant battle they keep brewing up.

Nuff Said