Hello, it's me.

Well, I haven't been in the mood to post much here lately. I've been spending a lot of time on Facebook, and probably pissig off a lot of people on my friends list with all my political posts... oh well.

The Health Care Reform bill passed and was signed into law.

This is a sad time for our country, for it marks the true beginning of our decent ito socialism. Many will say that it started long ago, 30, 40, 60, 100 years ago. And in many aspects they are right, but if the car was heading down hill before this, it just went off the edge of a cliff. It is hanging on to the guard rail by the back tires, ready to plunge into the abyss.

There is a chance of rescue, but slim. If enough people gather around, we can pull it back from the edge............

But........I do not believe it will happen.

The problem isn't the Democrats or the Republicans, the Left or the Right, the Liberals or the Conservatives.

The problem is "We The People". Not all of us, but the majority of our countrymen.

In his inaugural address, John F. Kennedy said "And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country". That sentiment barely survives in our country today. Americans have become more interested in what their government can do for them. We have become a land of entitlements. Those that work the least, want....no...demand the most.

And now our government is going to try and provide everything to everyone. Well, not quite. They will take more and more, at the point of a gun, from those who have, to give it to those who have not. And they will, of course, keep a tidy percentage for themselves, for their pet projects, to reward their supporters, and to pay the increasing numbers of the bureacracy.

I do not have faith that the Republicans will muster enough support to repeal the HCR Act. They will try, but as it gets closer to November, more and more of them will cave in. Good intentions will give way to politics as usual.

The Tea Party movement is a good idea, and I believe our only hope, but I fear is it "too little, too late". I truely fear that the character of our nation has been irreversibly changed.
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Although our chances are slim, that does not mean we shouldn't try. That would be
un -American.

As Teddy Roosevelt said, "It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."

234 years ago a small group of people started a fight that most thought they had no chance of winning.

No. We must fight the good fight for as long as we are able. This is a fight for the very soul of this nation. This will be a long fight, and it will not end in November.