Fireworks Didn't Kill the Indians!!!

well, after a long hiatus I am ready to resume this blog and what an appropriate day--the fourth of july 2013. two hundred some odd years ago,  the founding fathers had a vision for their new country: wipe out the Indians then settle the whole damn country with fast food, boob jobs, greedy multimillionaires and the like.

But what I choose to focus my thoughts on is all about saving our country from ruin: financial, emotional, intellectual, artistic--just about all of our citizens are somehow broken inside. The legal drug alcohol helps them hide their pain, their snorts of coke, shoot-up's of heroin, smoking a foil of meth, abusing prescription pain killers--these are just a few of the ways through which men, women, and children are torn up, shattered, silently in pain, trapped in a deep  overtaking sadness and a profound loss of hope.

 Without addressing these urgent needs of so many Americans, how can the United States truly consider itself a super-power? Military might overseas does nothing to help our own country build itself into a position of high standards, a push for academic and personal success, and the assurance that poor families can rise up and take their rightful, respected place with those who think they are so much better than the rest cause their investment holdings are swollen and raging, enabling them to dominate the stage.

 Perhaps the founding fathers were crotchety old white men  whose interests in freeing themselves from the tyranny of King George III
was mostly rooted in the belief they themselves could be the ruling class. I don't know--but I do know this: currently the United States of America is polluted with roadside litter, cigarette butts in every parking lot, dilapidated old houses and buildings whose owners simply vacated them and left them to rot ,cracked highways, substandard old worn out bridges, confusion and power-struggles in Washington DC--a fact that  frightens many Americans because if Congress can't get along to succeed together  then what faith can the American people have?

Isn't it time to reflect and take stock of what kind of country we want to live in and thrive in and find happiness and liberty in?

I once heard someone say "decisions are made by those who show up."I think it's time for every single citizen of the United States to show up and be part of the solutions that for so many, too many years indeed have simply been under the so-called political and moral radar.

so reflect today on this fourth of july independence day--and develop a new dream.