We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history,  and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why  we are worth preserving.  Students by and large cannot write, think  critically, read, or articulate.  Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity.  Why? We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (now violently in California over a proposition that is so  controversial that it wants marriage to remain between one man and one woman.  Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?).  We  have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream
 
Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana  republic.  To what purpose?
 
Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free  fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, Social Security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire  government.  Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and know precisely what I am talking about.)   The list is staggering in its  length, breadth, and depth.  It is potentially 1929 x 10.  And we are at war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the same  religion.

And now we have elected a man no one knows anything about, who has  never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska .  All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in  their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him  speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders?  No?  Oh, of course.  The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe is more  important.)
 
I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am  now.  This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life.  In my assessment, Obama will  divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure.  Change is indeed  coming.  And when it comes , you will never see the same nation again.
 
I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral  German felt in the mid-1930s.  In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German  knew next to nothing..  What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they  disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory and promises..  Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he  was a great speaker.  And he smiled and waved a lot.  And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his “brown shirts” would  bully them into submission.
 
And then he was duly elected to office, with a full-throttled economic  crisis at hand [the Great Depression].  Slowly but surely he seized the controls of government power, department by department, person by person,  bureaucracy by bureaucracy.  The kids joined a Youth Movement in his name, where they were taught what to think.  How did he get the people on his  side?  He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for the military-industrial complex.  He did it by indoctrinating  the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better=2 0jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country,  across Europe , and across the world.
 
He did it with a compliant media – Did you know that?  And he did this  all in the name of justice and .. . .. change.  And the people surely got what they voted for.  (Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.)  Read  your history books.  Many people objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and made fun of.  When Winston Churchill pointed  out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and  called a crazy troublemaker.  He was right, though .
 
Don’t forget that Germany was the most educated, cultured country in   Europe .  It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities.  And in less than six years – a shorter time span than just  two terms of the U. S. presidency – it was rounding up its own citizens,

The road to Hell is paved with them.

Since many of you enjoy senior citizen status or will sometime in the not  too distant future, I thought you might be interested in this information.
 
IN GOD WE TRUST

Every body that is on this mailing list is either a senior citizen, is getting  close or knows somebody that is.
 
Most of you know by now that the Senate version  (at least) of the “stimulus” bill includes provisions for extensive  rationing of health care for senior citizens.  The author of this part of the bill, former senator and tax evader, Tom Daschle was credited  today by  Bloomberg with the following statement.  “Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them.”  If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that Senators and
 
Congressmen have their own healthcare plan that is first dollar or very low  co-pay which they are guaranteed the remainder of their lives and are not subject to this new law if it passes.
 
Please use the power of the internet to get this  message out.  Talk it up at the grassroots level.  We have an election  coming up in one year and nine months.  We have the ability to address and reverse the dangerous direction the Obama administration and it allies have  begun and in the interim, we can make our voices heard!  Lets do it!
 
If you disagree, don’t do anything.  After your country is taken from you then you can scream from the rooftops, “how did this happen?”  “Why wasn’t I told?”