The State of the Nation.

Tonight is a very important night for the new administration. A telling moment in it’s first year at work.

Every past President of this great country has had his, duty to stand before congress and the entire country and tell them what the current state of our country is. Through prosperous times and bleak times. I am certain that this is a challenging call, for anyone.

President Ronald Reagan began one of his addresses by saying; “In order to understand where we are, we must first understand where we have been…” The same holds true now. However there are fundamental differences. In this first year, the deficit has been tripled, our congress has been spending hard earned tax payers money at an astounding rate, with no end in sight. We are coming perilously close to the edge of the financial precipice. Job loss is at an all time high. Thousands of home owners have lost their homes as a result of one of the worst economies since President Carter. This administration and it’s policies, has polarized the American people as never before.

At a historic time, when the current President, should have been hunkering down with the congress, to try and turn this crippled economy around and focus on jobs. He has been intent on furthering his agenda. To quote Admiral Farragut; “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” Seems to be his train of thought by completely dismissing the dire straights of the working class people and trying to push the Health Care Over Haul through the Congress at lightening speed. Even though the majority of Americans are totally against a Government take over, of our medical system.

One and a half million people showed up on the Whitehouse lawn to demonstrate how they felt about this fiasco and nobody there was looking or listening. When Congress went home for its break, the people showed up by the thousands at their town hall meeting and sent a clear message to them. Still they did not listen. Last week in Massachusetts, the Democrats lost the Senate seat to a Republican for the first time in forty six years. Another clear message. This time I think that someone was paying attention. November is not far away and some of the incumbent Senators are seriously in peril of losing their jobs. Maybe now they are paying attention. They have lost their super majority vote and hopefully will come back to the negotiating table with their fellow Senators, instead of the back rooms where all of the dirty little deals were made. So much for transparency!

Americans do not want the government so deeply embedded in our lives as the progressives seem to believe. We are perfectly fine being left alone. The government has overstepped it’s bounds and is intent on making this country one big welfare state. At a cost that is unsustainable. Health care is in need of reform. Not a complete takeover. As were the banking institutions and the Car Manufacturers. Enough is enough. We have had enough!

Are you a Patriot? Our founding Fathers were steeped in their belief that we are perfectly capable of taking care of ourselves and broke away from the tyranny of the English Crown, to establish this country as we know it today. Freedom and Liberty were the call of the day! They risked their very lives to establish this United States. Now we are at a crossroads, where the very foundation of this great nation is in jeopardy of losing the very thing that our ancestors bravely fought and died for, to achieve! They were indeed PATRIOTS!

I fear that quality is lost this day and age.

“If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute.”

Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791

Are you a Patriot? If you are, act on that in November and remind those that serve their own agendas, who this great nation belongs to.