Every time I come back to Louisiana, I’m struck with a bit of sadness when I look at the people who have, and yet still have their hands out. There are no more have not’s in this country. And the ones that are haves and have their hands out, are completely complacent in their intent to *not* increase their stature in this world. They will always have their hands out and do not know what it is like to have not.

Lets face it, we have not had the “have nots” since the great depression. We owe this to the great government programs which were meant to only be temporary and now are taken for gospel.

Why should I help someone who will not help himself? And why does that person and everyone else claim that they are a victim of the system, when it is the system itself that has given them the free home, free car, free food in which they have. Trek back 70 years and you will find that this abundance of giving did not exist. These people knew what hardship truly was. The people of the great depression, the men who committed suicide because they could not take the thought of looking at their families and not being able to provide for them. Today, some men would rather sit at home, and talk about how the government is so bad for them.

We celebrate the lives of great people every day, which brought our country to where it is, like FDR, JFK, and Martin Luther King Jr. But where are our leaders like them today? Where are the men who are not whining about not being treated fairly? Where are the men that will stand up and do something for themselves for a change? Who will be educated, up standing, salt of the earth men? When will this perpetual cycle of victimized burnt my lap coffee, smoked a pack a day sue the company for my own stupidity society figure out that the problem with this country is WE THE PEOPLE.

How many people out there can even complete the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence? Hell, how many can complete 2 sentences? Are our children even taught history at all anymore? Or is it turned into those politically correct story tales?

Do you ever wonder why we keep idolizing movies of WWII, and talk about how it was the Great Generation. Why we have movie after movie about a war and a generation that is nearly gone? It’s because that Generation was the last of the people who did for themselves. Our generation, generation X or Y or whatever you want to call us, have it all, we know not what it is like to come from nothing. We’ve never suffered from the problems they had. We’ve never had a common enemy, or had a common call to duty like that felt during WWII. Sure we’ve had 911 and an attack upon our soil by terrorists, but nothing like that generation. When an entire country was in a WAR economy, when everything was rationed in order to out manufacture, out produce, out ship the enemy. Neither have we as a generation, nor our parents had to experience that. And we idolize that, we wish to turn back the clock, and yet, not enough to give up our materialistic natures. Because that’s what we are.

What will it take for the world to come about, for the United States to come about and realize the true problems that need fixing, have to start here, with our people, not with some nation halfway around the world. They will continue to blow each other up, always have, and always will. We being there will not solve anything. Our press lying to us won’t solve anything either. But that’s neither here nor there.

Take stock, look around you, what is it around you that you really need? That you really just want? Do you need the push toy, the cube goodies, the digital camera, the 4 TVs, the satellite radio, the 45 pairs of shoes? You know women in WWII era painted lines on their legs so as to look like they had stockings. The rationing of nylon went to make material, and parachutes. Could you go without?

Ultimately what will it take for our country, and people to wake up? Kill the middle class.

What do I mean by that? Stay tuned for part II.

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