Wow it's HOT today it's definitely summer! Friday is the 4th of July. Wasn't it JUST January last week? Well it seems like it. Anyway. Speaking of the 4th I need to, once again, get on my soap box and express some views. If you don't agree - it doesn't matter - because I'm right.
America is an AWESOME place. No - it really is. I know what you are thinking - Amy's being sarcastic. No, I'm not - at least not yet. America IS an AWESOME place. As you know I grew up in St. Vincent and the Grenadines so I do have something to which to compare. America is great and here's some reasons why.
I can go to the grocery store and find everything on my list.
I can go to the gas station to fill up and even though the price is OUTRAGEOUS - there is gas available.
I can sleep at night without fear of intruders (ok - so I live in a safe town where my husband is a cop).
I work with a great bunch of people at Gentiva Health Services - the BEST home care agency in America. (Givin a shout out to Tiffany - word to yo mutha!)
I can go to the movies and they will be new movies - not ones from a couple of years ago - or even 20 years ago.
I can drive up to a building and through a speaker tell someone what I'm hungry for - give them money - and they give me food.
The list goes on and on.
I appreciate living here. I am aware that I have freedoms that many others in the world do not - and I'm grateful for those freedoms. [Especially the FREEDOM to write the rest of this blog without fear of retribution! read on...]
HOWEVER....
America is one MESSED up place. We have a WARPED sense of Freedom. We have taken advantage of our Freedoms. I'm going to use the term "we" but I really know who I mean when I say "WE'VE" become a country full of LAZY, dumb, self-centered MORONS. And the country, as a whole, has allowed it to happen.
Yes - I'm gonna "go" there... This whole WELFARE system "we" have here - nice idea - but STUPID!!! Way to go America - teach your people that they don't HAVE to work - just stay home an pop out babies - we'll pay for your rent, your food, and even your beer. OK ok ok people fall on hard times and need help...yea yea I know - WHY? What made their time harder than mine or my neighbors? NOTHING - they just made stupid choices that affected their life negatively- and now I have to pay their consequences?? I DON'T THINK SO. You know what? This is AMERICA - everyone has the SAME opportunities as EVERYONE else - so QUIT WHINING and get EDUCATED and GET A JOB. By the way - I'm ALL for court ordered vasectomies and hysterectomies. Have you ever thought that maybe we have TOO MANY freedoms?
So you say - what about people who have lost their jobs because of outsourcing, downsizing, illness etc? First of all, I wonder what percentage of WELFARE $ goes to people in those circumstances? I DO have a heart and I know "things" happen beyond our control. THOSE are the ONLY people who should get the welfare money - NOT people who haven't worked a day in their life.
But the BIGGEST problem in this country, as I see it, is STUPIDITY. I'm not talking about IGNORANCE - I'm talkin REAL out-and-out STUPID. We are overrun with stupid. Common Sense should be a mandatory class in every grade. WHY can't people seem to THINK?? In nursing school ( I think everyone should go to nursing school) you are taught "critical" thinking. Then when you are faced with a problem, you have the tools to "figure it out". I don't know if I grew up with my head in the sand or what but it seems the older I get the more I realize how STUPID alot of people are. And I don't tolerate STUPID well.
So this 4th of JULY I will take time to appreciate our FREEDOMS - even the freedom to be LAZY and STUPID.
Have a safe and HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY everyone!
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
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holla!!! well said amy, well said
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