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The Potential Doom of National Healthcare

Today in America, we, the people, are part of a society that has become complacent in accepting everything and anything, whether we believe in what we are accepting or not. 

Nothing phases us any longer, even though in many instances history proves that the consequences of our actions today will have a direct negative affect on the majority of our lives tomorrow.  Which leads me to tackle the subject of the future implementation (to be passed into law by Congress at the end of July) of a nationalized healthcare system in the United States, one very much the same as the failed and infamous National Healthcare System in the United Kingdom.

Since when do Americans settle for a system that has been proven to be much less effective than the current system that is already in place?  My goal is not to imply that our country should settle for what we have in place today. But to actually downgrade and accept “change we can’t believe in” without a fight is something that is new to the American way of doing things. This “newly found” attitude of American society is not the one which inspired me so many years ago to make the trip here to start a new life with nothing but hope and dreams in my pockets. How can we lose everything that we have worked so hard for by simply staying silent?

Coming from a family that has traveled extensively and has had the opportunity to live in different parts of the world, I feel it is my duty as a devout American to share with the folks (who, by no fault of their own have not had the chance to see what I have seen) a glimpse about what my family and I experienced while living in England from 2002 to 2005.  If I told you that the British National Healthcare System (NHS) is flawed, I would be lying. The British NHS, just as most things run by a government bureaucracy, is way beyond being flawed at this point; it is simply broken, with no possibility of being fixed any time soon.

I can still remember, as if it were yesterday, our arrival in England and the shock we had almost immediately as my husband and I started sorting the medical situation as most families with children would do. Do we not live by the saying “first things first?” Well, that was us, prioritizing the long to-do-list one must take care of upon arrival in a foreign country with two young children and another one on the way.  As a typical mother, I immediately made my way around our new neighborhood inquiring about pediatricians, dentists and every other possible specialist a family may need at a moment’s notice. By the time I was done, I had come to the realization that long gone were the days my kids would have regular check-ups because, guess what, in England a pediatrician only practices at the hospital in cases of emergency care.

And that is if you are lucky enough to have your children hospitalized while a pediatrician is on call. My 5-month-old baby boy had to be hospitalized for three days during our time there due to a severe case of vomiting and diarrhea. Believe it or not, there were no pediatricians available to treat him until the very last hour of his stay in the hospital.

Then came the search for a dental practice — well, that is a whole other story. I am just going to say it is a good thing that our family has good dental hygiene, as we could not find on the entire island of the United Kingdom, a dental practice that would take us in. You ask why — simply because there are not enough dentists to meet to the current demand. Yes, it was right then and there that I started thanking my mother for making me brush my teeth multiple times a day, every single day, for in the next three years to come, if I wanted and/or needed to see a dentist, I would have had to make a trip back “over the pond” to do so. Humm, and people wonder why so many Brits have bad teeth?  

As we got settled in to our new life, we were assigned by the government bureaucracy to our General Practice (GP) physician (forget about having a choice of doctors); in other words the same primary care physician for every family member, child or adult. Within the first month I had the pleasure to pay a visit to our new clinic (known in England as “surgeries”) since I had just become pregnant with our third child. What followed during that visit has left me almost speechless to this day and I still have a hard time accepting the fact that our new found GP heard our baby’s heartbeat through the use of a funnel (similar to the kind you use to change your car oil) rather than a proper heart beat monitor. My husband, being your typical guy, doubted my story only to experience his own shock and awe during our next appointment, this time together, when the nurse handed me a plastic container that would serve as a urine holder for the remaining months of my pregnancy! Yes, there I was with a little plastic cup to be used and re-used throughout nine long months. Props to the NHS!

As if all of this had already not been enough to make one want to turn around and run back to our home country, during the next few months my 2-year-old son would start developing one ear infection after another. Time and time again, I would pack up the car and make the trip to the let’s just say, not so clean surgery, to have him checked out, only to have the GP tell me that ear infections were a common occurrence in children that age and they would “go away on their own.” Sure enough, they did go away on their own without the proper antibiotic use, but only because my son’s ear drums burst twice due to the approach taken by “big brother” not to spend money on antibiotics due to cutbacks in the NHS budget. Even after we offered to pay for the medication ourselves, we were told it was an unnecessary use of antibiotics.

Times were tough for our family under this unorthodox medical system and as my pregnancy progressed I started to hope for the best and fear the worst as I had no idea what to expect during the delivery of our baby. Nobody could have prepared me for what came next; the battle to have our baby boy circumcised shortly after his birth. The amount of time and the bureaucracy my husband and I encountered were beyond belief. The NHS told us that having a baby circumcised was not a practice they either encouraged nor supported.

We were on our own in search of a new avenue since the baby had to have the procedure done before he was 6 months old or we would have had to put him under general anesthesia once we were able to travel back to the United States. Since, by this time, we had become accustomed to resorting to our own creativity, we went searching for a Jewish Mohel who, for a lot of British Pounds, gladly and more than adequately performed the job. The actual delivery of the baby in the hospital went smoothly, although up to the very last possible minute the entire staff discouraged me from taking the epidural claiming it was not good for my, or the baby’s, health (another attempt on their part to cut costs down). Having experienced two previous deliveries, it would have taken God to convince me not to take the pain meds. I was in labor for quite a long time due to the fact that in England, the midwives are only permitted to check your cervix once every four hours!  Yes, that is correct.  So, even though I thought I was completely dilated after a couple of hours, I had to wait for the entire four hour period to pass. 

I concluded with this incident that the cost of latex gloves is also putting stress on the system! It is a miracle that my husband did not end up delivering our child himself. If this had not been sufficient, once the baby was born, they wrapped him in a blanket, handed him to me and left the room for over an hour due to a lack of staff. Nobody bothered to clean him; I was on my own sharing a room with a complete stranger who would not stop crying, but I was lucky since most women were sharing rooms with at least four other women. Let’s not forget, though, we were all there free of charge.  What a marvelous system.

A good English friend confided in me that she and her husband had a separate cash account where they were stashing money away on a monthly basis in case they ever developed a life threatening disease so that they could seek medical assistance in — none other than — the United States! Another English friend developed severe pains in her abdominal area only to find out that a cyst had been developing in her stomach. A cyst which did not undergo a biopsy for 10 months due to a long cue of other cases ahead of hers. 

The tales of the NHS are endless and I am happy to say that Americans will soon finally understand for themselves what “free” medical care really means. Long gone will be the days when we had the luxury of seeing a specialist at a moment’s notice, simply because these specialists will be fewer and will only accept private insurance cases (in other words, cash).  Women will now have to resort to the fact that annual exams will no longer be available due to the high costs associated with them. That’s right, no more yearly mammograms or even pap smears. I believe that these exams will now take place once every three years, just like under my beloved NHS system. 

The fun has just begun. This is what the likes of Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama want you and I to have. No longer will I have to tell the horror stories of what my family and I experienced under the British nationalized healthcare system. Americans will have their own stories to tell the world. 

“Yes, we can” and “hope and change!”

It is about time that Americans felt in their own bones how the miserable nationalized healthcare system from other countries works. It is the only way they will stop idealizing a government-run system that does not work. I am tired of Americans not paying attention to what is going on around them.  They need to experience for themselves what this absolutely atrocious system will do to their quality of life. Only then will they truly appreciate what they had. 

We will all receive equally bad healthcare, except of course for our political elite (the new Patrician class):  The Obamas and Congress, America’s modern day royalty; they will have their own special rules for everything. It is a classic case of socialism. Do what I say, not what I do!  Special rules the rest of us don’t get to play by.

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Dear Patriot

 

Dear Patriot;

I hope you will hear me since these days nobody else seems to be paying any attention to what is happening right before our eyes. 

I am a 37-year old woman who was born and raised in Brazil until my teenage years. Some 22 years ago, my father, a visionary by nature, decided that it was time to sell all of our belongings in Brazil and move to the United States of America in search of a better life and the pursuit of happiness. Unlike many foreigners who are living in this country today, we found a way to land here legally and abide by the laws that at the time were what made this nation such a promising place, where corruption and crime seemed to be minimal as compared to the places we had been exposed to during our lives; a place where everybody had a chance to become somebody through a lot of hard work and a little bit of luck! 

Today, a few months after the most crucial election this country has ever been faced with, I ask myself and my family what has happened to us and where is our land of opportunity headed?  The answer is very simple. Our country has been completely infiltrated by, what I like to call, the 21st century Marxist ideology. This is a time where bloody revolutions no long work and their “hidden agenda” of destroying an empire such as the United States can only be implemented by controlling the education system, the mass communication media and the entertainment industry. By using such methodology and controlling pivotal strategic areas, leaders such as Chavez, Lula, Morales and of course the Kichners, all of which control the majority of South America, have already proven to the world that these tactics work and they work well! They have been able to brainwash the young under the complacent eyes of their parents in order to use them as a key instrument towards the dissolution of family, religion and country.  

Even though we are still a few years behind South America, the Marxist ideology has already infiltrated us so deeply that if we do not start reforming our party (or what is left of it) and coming together as a team, the progressives of our nation will soon eliminate any possible leadership we hope to have in the future (i.e. 2010, 2012 elections and so on) by using such methods as voter fraud and character assassination. We, conservatives, represent a segment of our country that, unfortunately, has been silenced for too long and we must now stop and analyze what is happening to us right in front of our blinded eyes. 

If the Obama electors are counting on the repetition of their historical power to remove erroneously elected Presidents after their first term, they are in for a rude awakening.  In 2010, there will be millions of new and highly indoctrinated youngsters voting. Likewise, there will be millions of today’s illegal population legally casting their votes for their “saviors”, due to the foreseeable amnesty. To these two anti-American new legions of electors, we must add the baby boomers and older electors that voted against the left in 2008 and will no longer be among us to do the same in the next elections, simply due to the fact that they belong to the generations that are fading away. A case of simple math already predicts the turn out of our next presidential election in 2012 and we haven’t even considered other factors such as character assassination…

Let us then take a paragraph to analyze what character assassination has done to our country so far. Our Marxist “friends” (and their allies) who supposedly work for the people of this country did not achieve their goal (or long term plan) during the presidential elections in 2000 and 2004. They were caught by surprise by the unexpected audacity and rebellion of the electorate in those years, losing the already celebrated victory.  In order to make sure such a situation would not repeat itself in 2008, they added to their strategy the moral destruction of President Bush, disseminating through their powerful instruments of education, communication and entertainment the non-existent crisis of his presidency. Meanwhile, under the most favorable conditions, out of the blue, a Washington outsider –  Governor Sarah Palin – comes into the picture and almost delays their plan for another four to eight years. This is when they were forced to launch the financial crisis, also known to me as the famous “October surprise”, which is a large risk since the repercussions are now being measured under Obama’s watch. In any case, the progressives finally achieved their goal by electing Barack Obama this past November 4th, the day our country tried to commit suicide. However, now they must make absolutely sure the consequences caused by their own secret weapon – the financial crisis – will not risk an instrumental second term. In order to avoid the risk, they must keep destroying any conservative leadership we still have left. Any prominent conservative figure must be destroyed in the eyes of American voters because they present a threat to their ideology.

While these left-wing lunatics continue the character assassination on a daily basis, we, as true conservatives, must act and avoid the success of their new mission. We must use their own strengths - organization, discipline, loyalty and perseverance – to defeat them by building a protective shield around our leaders. Accomplishment can only be achieved through clear and constant messages against our detractors in the media and entertainment.  All citizens of our great country should be asking themselves this simple question: What does Hollywood know about politics? What personal experiences have actors had to qualify them for these outrageous commentaries? Quite frankly, they have no qualifications whatsoever as well as so many of the pundits, we, the people, hear from day in and day out, have either. After experiencing first hand the excitement my speech aroused on the local crowd at our “Tea Party” a few weeks ago, I, more than ever, now believe that more ordinary citizens from different backgrounds who have already experienced in their own skin the repercussions of the policies that the Obama administration is putting forward at a rapid pace must be taken more seriously. People most identify with ordinary individuals like themselves. We need to unite and show how repulsive this situation really is. By staying quiet, we are simply accepting all of the attacks on the people we feel would represent us best, whose only sin is to be true conservatives. I realize this is a difficult, uphill battle; however, this can be the beginning of a war worth fighting for.

My family and I appreciate all that you stand for and we strongly believe that together we will rebuild conservatism in our country. 

Sincerely,

Ana Puig

Stay at Home Mother of Four

Bucks County, PA

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My Speech at the Bucks County, PA, Tea Party

 

Folks, I want to start out by thanking President Obama for providing a great reason for all of us to unite here today!

Before I go on, I want to share with you a little bit about my background. I was born and raised in Brazil and came to this country back in 1986 with my parents and brother. We came here legally to be part of the American dream; Life, liberty, opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Unlike others, I did not come here to take “advantage” or change the system; I came here to be part of the system.

But, let’s go on to talk about what is at stake here today!

The economy has been and will continue to be one of the most prominent issues in our minds in these post election days. What we fail to realize, however, is that the economic crisis we have in our hands is a direct consequence of the moral crisis we are living within our society. 

As I stop to look around and take in all that is happening to us, I realize that this moral crisis is the same one that was gradually implemented in my home country through a strong and well planned Marxist program that involved the most important sectors of our society: education, media communication, entertainment and religion. 

These days, I find myself astonished as I realize the direct correlation between what is happening in the United States and what has happened in Brazil and South America: The implementation of 21st century Marxism. 

Not many Americans would know this (since South America barely makes it in to the news here), but the political system that we have in place today is exactly the same one implemented by the Marxists in the so-called “Banana Republics” by democratically electing Presidents such as Chavez in Venezuela, Lula in Brazil, Morales in Bolivia and Kirchner in Argentina, just to name a few, came to power. The voter system in these countries was rigged over and over again until finally the “right” candidate was elected. Once these men (and women) won the vote by a way that seemed to be democratic in the eyes of the people; once the indoctrination was finally completed, the voter system was “miraculously fixed” and now these countries run state-of-the-art elections, perhaps the most efficient in the world. 

The Marxist ideology justifies using this kind of tactic where the “means justifies the end.” So, in essence, my friends, by not coming together and speaking up against a system that does not work, we are creating our own “Banana Republic” out of our beloved country!

What we are seeing in America is a clonage of what was done in Latin America where the leaders mentioned previously have been elected by using the same strategy and tactics that “progressives” in this country have now successfully used (i.e. infiltration of the education system, class warfare ideology, voter fraud, brainwashing thru mass communication and promises to the lower economic class that will never be implemented due to the real and hidden agenda of these politicians).

How will we combat Marxism without real leaders emerging in times like these? The answer is simple, we just won’t. If you pay attention to what has become of South America, with the exception of Chile and Colombia, you will quickly realize that the first point in the Marxist agenda was to destroy any real conservative leadership (or you may want to call it opposition). 

The people of these countries are now fighting to remove these corrupt leaders from the power they achieved in what at the time seemed to be a democratic process. However, it is simply too late.  They have taken over the legislative and judiciary powers of those countries thru a combination of corruption and ideology. At the end of the day, people in those countries just like you and I are paying the price for believing in "change!" There has been "change" in Latin America, just not the "change" the people were waiting for. 

To make matters even worse down south, whatever freedom is left in South America has now become endangered by the current administration foreign policies, starting with Colombia. Watch out, Colombians, you will be thrown to the wolves very soon! On the other hand, enemies of our country rejoice. We should expect a strong relationship between ourselves and the Castro brothers in Cuba.

Even though the same Marxist ideology has already infiltrated us so deeply, we must remind ourselves as Americans that we should not accept defeat. 

My fellow conservatives, we can no longer passively stand by sipping our lattes while being consumed by our daily lives because the situation in our nation has reached such an unthinkable stage.

 Let’s reverse this potentially horrible situation by bringing all conservatives (aside from their political affliations) together to enforce our grass root conservative morals and principles by electing the real leadership we so desperately need. We cannot and we should not allow the progressives to take over our country and change our way of life.

 

The problem we are facing is not whether we have elected a Republican or a Democrat.  Electing Obama is the issue at hand because quite frankly he does not represent the principles our country was built on. It is a shame indeed that we are all facing the "change" that he has brought to us with his election, but that's life, we learn by making mistakes. At least I will sleep well at night knowing that I am doing everything in my power to fight the current administration’s ideology from taking over our country.

So, to make a long story short, I have hope that we, the true conservatives, have what it takes to convince the rest of the population in two short years that we need to take control again in the next election cycle so that we can let the people, and not the government, once again run our nation. 

Buckle up tight, folks! We are in for victory in a turbulent ride…

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The Moral Crisis of America

   

The economy has been and will continue to be one of the most prominent issues in our minds in these post election days. What we fail to realize, however, is that the economic crisis we have in our hands is a direct consequence of the moral crisis we are living with in our society. As I stop to look around me and take in all that is happening to us in America, I quickly realize that this moral crisis, in turn, is a direct consequence of the lack of appropriate conservative leadership in our country. 

These days, I find myself sounding like a broken record that continues to play the same tune over and over again: the correlation between the United States and South America and the implementation of 21st century Marxism in both places. The Marxist ideology has already infiltrated us so deeply that if we do not start reforming our party (or what is left of it) and coming together as a team, the progressives will soon eliminate any possible leadership we hope to have in the future (i.e. 2010, 2012 elections and so on) by using such methods as voter fraud and character assassination.  We, conservatives, represent a segment of our country that, unfortunately, has been silenced for too long and we must now stop and analyze what is happening to us right in front of our blinded eyes.

Our voter system no longer represents a fair, democratic process as we just witnessed throughout this last election debacle where organizations such as ACORN were ever so eager and ready to put a touch of corruption in.  Not many Americans would know this (since South America barely makes it to the news here), but the system that we have in place here today is exactly the same one we ran in the so-called “Banana Republics” ten years ago before Presidents such as Chavez, Lula, Morales and Kirchner came to power. The voter system in these countries was rigged over and over again until the “right” candidate was elected. Once these men (and woman) won the vote by a way that seemed to be democratic in the eyes of the people, once the indoctrination was finally completed, the voter system was miraculously fixed and now these countries run state-of-the-art elections, perhaps the most efficient in the world. The Marxist ideology justifies using this kind of tactic where the means justify the end. So, in essence, my friends, by not coming together and speaking up against a system that does not work, we are creating our own “Banana Republic” out of our beloved country!  A perfect example happening right now is the dispute between incumbent Senator Norm Coleman of MN and the opposition led by Al Franken. Conservative Minnesotans cannot deny the fact that they must act by being present during the process of this re-count or this race will just be added to the many others that have been handed over to the progressives on a silver platter. 

My fellow conservatives, we can no longer stay home sipping our lattes talking about our own lives and what surrounds us on a routine basis because the situation in our nation has reached such an unthinkable stage that we now more than ever have an obligation to fight or it will all be lost! Just take a look at what is being done to Sarah Palin by members of our own party! Perhaps, the time has finally come for us to “clean house” since the Republican party no longer represents what we stand for. 

How will we combat Marxism without real leaders emerging in times like this? The answer is simple, we just won’t. If you pay attention to what has become of South America, with the exception of Chile and Colombia, you will quickly realize that the first point in the Marxist agenda was to destroy any real conservative leadership (or you may want to call it opposition). Nowadays, that leadership has been completely eliminated and the people of countries such as Argentina find themselves with no other choice but to elect the Kirchners over and over again. To make matters even worse down south, whatever is left of South America has now become endangered by an Obama presidency, starting with Colombia. Obama has already mentioned more than once his desire to end any trade treaty the United States has with that country. Watch out, Colombians, you will be thrown out to the wolves very soon!

Today, Sarah Palin is the target; tomorrow, it will be someone like Bobby Jindal, the current governor of Louisiana. The progressives (and to some extent members of our own party) will use character assassination and voter fraud until we are completely finished and there are no choices left for the people. We need to be respected. We are allowing disrespect and the influence of the Marxist revolution to finish what is left of our core values: family, religion and country. How can we quietly accept what reporter Karl Cameron has done to Sarah Palin on the Fox News channel just last week? Conservatives should make it a point to watch the video of his interview on the O’Reilly Factor where, not only did Cameron look excited, he looked as if he were on a mission! We need to unite and show how repulsive this situation really is. By staying quiet, we are simply accepting all of the attacks on Palin, whose only sin is to be a true conservative. It is finally time for us to demand the mainstream media be professionals and do their jobs properly. It is now up to us to protect and help our leaders by coming together and boycotting any programs that we do not agree with. It is simple, folks, turn off your television sets, boycott the entertainment world, support and defend our leaders!!!   This can be the beginning of a war worth fighting for.

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Are We Faced with 21st Century Marxism?

 

Americans are so incredibly naive!  

During the past year, I have tried countless times to educate the folks on how Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba, the homeland of my parents-in-law. Perhaps, I am not being clear enough, but nobody seems to see the correlation between him and the rest of South America and now our own President elect.  People get so scared when they hear the word Communism that they automatically shut down. So, I have decided to put it into simpler terms.  

 My friends are correct when they make the argument that Castro was not elected into power and that Cuba went through a revolution to get to where they are today. I can live with that thought process. What I can’t live with is the fact that no one in this country wants to understand that even though we STILL hold elections every 4 years, Obama is quickly ushering himself in as well. He may be taking a more subtle style than Castro did, but the end result will be the exact same if conservatives do not unite in the near future to fight the progressive agenda!  Come on, as far as I am concerned this election has been a fraud! Look at Acorn, look at all the illegals that have voted, or just take a look at the many people registered to vote more than once. This has been orchestrated so well by the left wing nuts of this country that the American people don't realize what is happening right before their eyes.

Ok, so if you are still having a hard time accepting the truth, let's take a different route for a minute and forget about Castro since he belongs to the 20th century form of Marxism. Let's jump to the 21st century and the new Marxism way to reach power thru the democratic process as it is currently happening in Latin America, our own “backyard”. All you have to do is take a hard look at the way the current Presidents of countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina have ushered themselves in (as I like to call it). What we are seeing in America is a clonage of what was done in Latin America where the men mentioned above have been elected by using the same strategy and tactics as Obama (i.e. education infiltration, class warfare, voter fraud, brainwashing thru mass communication means, promises to the lower economic class that will never be implemented due to the real and hidden agenda of these politicians). Now, the people are fighting for the right to remove these guys from the power that they achieved in what at the time seemed to be done democratically. However, it is simply too late.  They have taken over the legislative and judiciary powers of those countries thru a combination of corruption and ideology. At the end of the day, people in those countries just like you and I are paying the price for believing in "change"! There has been "change" in Latin America, just not the "change" the people were waiting for. 

 Right now, I am feeling really sorry for all these “progressives” who have no idea what is out there in the world and live everyday with a long time frustration with the "horrors" of being an American (and this is why so many people want to move here... Hehehe!!!). I honestly believe those people should consider applying for Venezuelan citizenship! Go give it a try elsewhere and then come back to tell me what they thought?  It is not pretty out there...

The problem we are facing at the moment is not whether we have elected a Republican or a Democrat.  Electing Obama is the issue at hand because quite frankly I don't think he truly represents the  foundation of principles our country has been built on. It is a shame indeed that we will all have to face the "change" that is coming our way starting this January, but that's life, we learn by making mistakes. At least I will sleep well at night knowing that I did everything in my power to fight Obama and his gang from taking over this country. Obama will change the course of this country towards a direction that will make us all miss George W. Bush (and that is saying something).

So, to make a long story short, I have hope that the true conservatives in this country, not the Republican party, have what it takes to convince the rest of the population in two short years that we need to take control again in the next election so that we can let the people, and not the government, once again run this country.  If you heard Obama speak on election night, he is already changing his original message....  What a shocker!

Buckle up tight, folks! We are in for a turbulent ride…

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Where Are We Headed???

 

Some 22 years ago, my father, a visionary by nature, decided that it was time to sell all of our belongings in Brazil and move to the United States of America in search of a better life and the pursuit of happiness. Unlike many foreigners who are living in this country today, we found a way to land here legally and abide by the laws that at the time were what made this nation such a promising place, where corruption and crime seemed to be minimal as compared to the places we had been exposed to during our lives; a place where everybody had a chance to become somebody through a lot of hard work and a little bit of luck! 

Today, a few days after the most crucial election this country has ever been faced with, I ask myself and my family what has happened to us and where did our land of opportunity go? 

“Society (in America) is in a state of confusion” for we have given up on the basic elements that made our country so great not so long ago. Our morals, values, principles, beliefs and a sense of a strong family unit have all been washed away and looked down on not just by the liberal mainstream media of this nation, but also by our teachers and politicians. What kind of country is this where it is ok for teachers to indoctrinate young students starting at the age of kindergarten? What kind of people are we that put money and material belongings first and don’t blink an eye to acquire all of the above even if it means that our children have to spend more and more time away from us, their parents, and be subjected to the teachings of a third party that doesn’t necessarily share our own beliefs? Our children are no longer being taught by their parents; unfortunately, they have to rely on teachers, Hollywood and the mainstream media.  Our youth doesn’t stand a fair chance to think for themselves or to differentiate right from wrong anymore. Meanwhile, I feel as if I were drowning because it is all happening too fast and right before my eyes and I am completely helpless as I am just another everyday citizen who is not being heard.  

As I sit in front of my television set evening after evening, I begin to ponder if Americans have lost touch with reality by the way they, in essence, “worship” Barack Obama. Please, I beg the liberals out there, to enlighten the rest of us on why you voted for this man? Is it the “hope and change” that he promises, or is it all the “experience” he brings to the ticket? Further more, is it his values (i.e. supporting partial birth and late term abortion) or is it his shady associations with people such as Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright (just to name a few)? Is it the fact that he wants to help the poor by taking from the rich? Tell me, I want to know what it is about him that makes people get a "tingling feeling up their leg" because I have read so much about the guy and I can't come up with one single reason to make me want to have him as my Commander in Chief.  Oh, and the scary part is that none of my friends who have voted for him have been able to give me a good reason, either. People want change, I get that, but they don't really realize the extent of the change we are about to get in this country. The most unfortunate part of this election is that the “change” is coming and it is coming very soon, but I get the feeling that when the “change” actually gets here, Americans will regret it, but like in many South American countries, it will then be too late. 

You may call me a radical, you may call me a right wing fanatic, call me whatever you want, but I have lived through the so wanted “change” some voters would like to see in this country and I did not like it one single bit, so much so that I left my homeland. Furthermore, I am married to a Cuban-American whose parents lost their homeland to Communism some 40 years ago and it is because of that experience that I feel able to sniff out a "Saul Alinsky" communist when I hear one speaking. Americans obviously did not do their homework on Mr. "Hope and Change" for if they had, we would not be under this predictment we find ourselves in today.  As a country, it is not too late for all of us to start digging deeply into Obama’s background in order to truly understand who he is so that we can make a more educated choice in 2010. 

 

I believe it is time for the Republican party to reform itself and go back to its roots of true conservatism before progressives finish stripping us of our core values: family, country and religion. We are lucky enough to live in a country where we can disagree on these matters in a civil way. We need to take advantage of this moment to embrace our beliefs once again. It chills me to the bone to hear Joe Biden say the government is going to patriotically "take" money from the rich and re-distribute to the rest of us, or Obama talking about “spreading the wealth around”.   When I hear such arguments, I know we are not far off from Marxist ideologies. As mentioned previously, I have left my homeland once before because of political unrest driven by socialist/communist forces. I am not about to be forced out of this great country because of some lunatic who wants to make us all equal. Obama represents a danger to this country and what it stands for, so much so that his socialist agenda would get him elected in Europe hands down! 

As for me, I have a different thought on “hope and change” and I feel that during the next two years, Americans are going to decide that they do not want to look like what Europe is today (where the governments give and take at their discretion) or what Latin America has become.  I am not sure how many people in our country know that a couple of weeks ago, the government in "Argentina proposed seizing all private pensions". If you are wondering why, the answer is simple: To redistribute all of that money to people who actually need it more. Now didn't some leading Democrat say something about pensions belonging to CEOs being the first to go??? Humm, that is the beginning here, isn't it???

Wake up, America!  By electing Obama, Americans have just gotten the government that they deserve just like Cubans did when they ushered Fidel Castro in 1959.

God help us all!!!

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