The 'What is wrong with my country' rant...

What is wrong with America? This is not the country I once knew. Don't take this wrong - I am a patriot - but did I drift off to sleep like Rip Van Winkle just to wake to this hellish nightmare of a world we are now in? Did we all? I can't let my children walk to school, or play outside, or go to a Saturday Matinee like I used to, because of ill minded individuals...sick bastards all...who would do them harm.

Why is the divorce rate in my country so high, and why is it more 'normal' to have been divorced than to have remained married to one spouse? Someone please tell me what is wrong with my country? We travel to the moon and Mars...why? Is it to look for signs of intelligent life because we can find none here, or is it to find a place to propagate the race after we deplete this earth? We can travel to the outer realms of the universe but we can't cure the common cold, let alone major life-threatening disease. Someone tell me please, what is wrong with my country?

What are Crips, Bloods, MS13, and Skin-Heads? And why? Why such hatred? Why the killing? What is wrong? PlayStation, Nintendo, TV....what is wrong with my country? Where did the family time go? Where has the printed book gone? Where is Timmy and Lassie? Text message, cell-phone can't do without, e-mail.....what is going on here?

'Joe the Camel', 'Joe six-pack' and 'Joe the plumber'...God, I can't take it any longer! CEO's growing fat while the poor grow poorer, Government ran by Corporate 'Big Business'...whose interest is at heart here? Politicians are simply that....self-serving finger pointing criminals with the law on their side....they are not servants of the people...what, you thought because you voted for them that they work for you? Silly human race! Wall Street going belly up while my IRA goes nose first to the ground because of a few greedy individuals...what is wrong with my country? Terrorism....no! That's a Government ruse...keep 'em running scared and we can pull the wool over their eyes...think not? Explain the last 8 years. The Bush Administration must have thought 'how damned stupid are these people' as they laughed at all they have gotten away with. Stupid gas must have been pumped into the air I think. Code yellow, code orange, ...where did that go, code blue? Anybody know? It happened overnight.

There are 'terrorists', yes indeed, but not just of Middle Eastern descent though...do you not remember Eric Rudolph, the far right wing Christian abortion clinic bomber? Do you remember Ted Kaczynsky, a.k.a. 'The Unibomber'? Okay then, surely you recall Timothy McVeigh, the American who detonated the truck bomb in Oklahoma City...have we forgotten them? They were Americans. What's going on here? Why the extreme hate? Sure, there are extremist's everywhere...not just those who brought down the towers, whoever they were....all functioning under the influence of hatred. I'd hate it too if we were being 'democratized', ripped off and influenced by another country. Hey, wait a minute man, I'm talking about US!

China? ...oh, that's just Big Business taking advantage of child labor there and enormous tax breaks here. Hell, I think I do hate us for what we do and what we don't.....a hatred of a broken country, a broken system, a broken people....what is going on here? Somebody please tell me.

Why can't I say 'Merry Christmas' but I can say 'Happy Halloween', or 'Happy Hanukkah'....what is going on here? Clinton gets blown in the oval...we get no good Bush....something fundamentally wrong with that. Ted Stevens, Alaskan Senator...charged with what was it, 13 counts of some form of corruption in office...but he'll fight it and run for Senate again....and Mark Foley and sex with Congressional pages....and Conressman Kennedy driving drunk on his way to cast an emergency vote at 2:00am...(yep, I'm being bi-partsan). I had once read this line a long time ago...'I steal a nickel, rich man steals a dime; he writes a best selling novel, while I do the time'.....yeah, it's true.

What is happening? Insurance for all...why no way at all....are you ill? Do you have insurance? Do you need your meds? Do you have insurance? Food for the kids, or my cardiac meds....that's the choice...what is going on here, in America? Christmas around the bend...the ads are coming out, the economy is falling apart...granted, we don't celebrate for the right reason, but kids are kids, and how do you say no, and what if you have no choice but to say no? In America? Land of the Free...land that I love...I've heard it said so many times by worldly travellers (no, I have not been one...France, Burma, Peru...all places I'd love to see, but I can't afford)...go to another country and see just how well off we have it here. Damned! I've gotta' stop now...this is rapidly deteriorating into a rant that will not stop, is counter-productive to my work, and is ruining my day.

I'm sorry if I've offended, but yet I'm not...it's simply the truth, and you know it. I simply 'spoke' it. I'm just exercising my right to Free Speech while I still have it.....America, good God almighty.....what's going on?.......please check my verse and Haiku pages, and for the most part steer clear of these rants....it's just my way of ventilating my wrath before it eats me alive...hopefully you will find a better person on my other links.

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