Angry Americans take to the street

The Pharos Tribune ^
| September 18, 2009 | Joe Bowyer

Posted on Saturday, September 19, 2009 2:40:18 AM by
2ndDivisionVet

The American people have put up with being lied to by politicians for so
long the politicians thought they could get away with anything, but maybe
not.
These aren't flower people handing out posies out there on the streets
now, nor are they hippies smoking pot. These are people who played by the
rules.
These are people who worked to pay the bills while others pursued their
half-witted causes. They worked while the supporters of the "snail darter"
held
up the construction of a huge dam. They worked while a farmer who found a
kangaroo rat on his property had to stop farming it. They worked until a
government
they supported with their taxes adopted trade policies that allowed their
jobs to be shipped to China and other points east. Now they are angry.

Perhaps they don't mind shopping at cut-rate stores now and then to save a
buck or two, but they don't like being put into a position where they are
forced
to do so to make ends meet. These are the sweethearts who married and
raised children. They didn't bring those children into this world to see
them go
on welfare because there are no jobs. They believed in America, and yes,
they shared the American dream. They are fed up to the gills with seeing
their
tax money go into someone else's pocket, especially if it's someone who
has learned to live on the dole because he or she is too lazy to work.

They know they have gotten the shaft while others who don't care about
America, or playing by the rules, or working for a living have been paid
off by the
government to sit on their cans and be bureaucrats or be just plain
nothing. A lot of them have worked 16 hours a day to start a business to
get ahead
of the pack only to see that business sold out by congressmen who seem to
have forgotten we ever existed, and Mr. and Mrs. America, I am one of
those.
Instead of lying back in my old age and reaping the benefits of my labor,
my son and I work extra hard to keep the doors of our business open
because most
of our work went to China via the Wal-Mart.

I haven't been to a tea party or a demonstration yet, but my heart is with
them, and when Nancy Pelosi calls those people radicals and Nazis she is
getting
on the wrong side of the street and the wrong side of me. Most of us older
people remember who the Nazis were and what they did. If she called one

of
us
a Nazi to our face she would be in a lot of trouble. We have been here a
lot longer than Pelosi, and I doubt if there is a single one of us who
hasn't
done more for the good of America than she ever will. We have obeyed the
laws and worked hard, and we feel the rewards have gone elsewhere.

We have lived through the "flower children" and the pot-smoking "hippies."
We watched Jane Fonda and her cohorts cost us the war in Vietnam. We
tolerate
the ACLU although it gags us to do so. We had to sit by while the
corruption known as ACORN committed voter fraud in the last election.
(They are now in
line to receive a lot of taxpayer money thanks to Washington.) All of this
goes on while the government turns its head as it passes bills and
programs
we don't need, most of them quite possibly unread from the looks of it.

Now they are breaking our country, and borrowing money from our enemies to
support their habit. If there is an American out there who thinks
borrowing from
China is remotely close to being good for the country, I would like to
know who he or she is. Surely there is an asylum somewhere that has a
spare padded
room we can put them in until the next election. All of the political
slots in the Capitol where such people seem to be welcome are full right
now.

The country also seems to have fallen into the hands of secularists and
atheists. It was bad enough that we had to watch Christianity being attacked by
its enemies, but to see our government step in and help via the Supreme
Court kind of galls us. Is it any wonder the good people in this country
are making
themselves heard. They see their country slipping away. They see socialism
coming at them like a freight train while Washington tells them there
isn't
even a track running through their state.

In the past, us honest, hard working people stayed on the job to support
our families and try to get a bit ahead of where we started out. We worked
hard
to do that, and like I said, we played by the rules, but what do we see in
Washington? We see the president's cabinet being filled with people who
haven't
paid their taxes, people who have radical views about the paths America
should follow, and people who have a dim view of America and capitalism.
Is it
any wonder we are upset and frightened, and if not, why aren't we? We
don't like what we see, and I guess our problem is that we remember what
we once
were, and we know we can't continue down this road and remain the shining
city on the hill that everyone wants to go to.

No, my friends, it is way past the time for the good, hard-working people
in America to stand up and be counted. We have waited too long while the
rabble
pushed us little by little onto the slippery slope that leads to our
country's demise as we know it. It is time for America's patriots to stand
up and
be counted, and to hell with the apologies.

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. Joe Bowyer is a columnist for the Pharos-Tribune. He can be reached
through the newspaper at ptnews@pharostribune.com



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