Why people do not think!
Richard Salbato
Over the last month I have written very little
on my faith or even on my passions, which are morals and politics. What most people want me to write about is
apparitions, and even that has not compelled me to write. What is obsessing my mind is why people simply do not think or do not know how to think. We find people who do not want to think or do
not know how to think.
What is thinking and how do
we do it? Animals do not think, they do
according to their nature and react to positive and negative stimuli. Thinking
requires us to understand what we see, feel, smell and hear. To understand
these things we first learn how to communicate what we experience. This starts with learning a language. Believe it or not, we think in a language. So
we first learn to think by understanding how to make complex things into simple
words. A box is a complex thing, but the
word “box” makes us understand what we are thinking about in a simple way. To understand what type of box or what is
happening to the box we add pronouns, verbs or adverbs to our thinking. But in essence language helps us think in
simple terms. However, if we learn language wrong, we may communicate to others
one way and he understands us in another way.
Let me give an example: “I
believe in free love.” Today, what he
means is that he wants sex without restrictions. But the true meaning of love has to be free
and always was free. Love must be free
to be true love because love is a free choice to do good to someone. Love has nothing to do with sex outside of
marriage.
We then learn how to deal
with quantities of things. Again we do
this by making it easy to think. We take
a complicated thing like 100 apples and simplify that into a simple number
(100) that can be used for apples or any other quantity of things. By making thinking simple over the years,
science has been able to work complex problems in real simple principles that
have been proven over time.
All True Knowledge is History
Even though science proves
that the world, including humans, is evolving towards it destruction (changing
from the perfect to the imperfect) we, as humans, have been able to think out
more complex things because of our ability to learn from history. This is our great advantage over animals.
When we think of history we
think of nations, but history is everything we learn. We learn mathematics from the history of
mathematics, the history of the accumulation of knowledge in math that has been
learned over the years and passed on by word or book. Even when we learn language we learn from
this same history of language. Although
many do not want to learn from history and in some cases have a great
disrespect for history, there is nothing they have not learned from history,
good or bad.
For me, the less history we
know the less we are able to think correctly. However, even if we have a great
grasp of history, it does not mean we can think correctly. For example, when I
was very young I understood that all history is somewhat corrupted by
prejudices. The
What I did to understand
history was to make take a 20 foot by 5 foot art canvas and chart the history
of the world, according to the Bible.
Then I overlaid the history of nations, the history of wars, the history
of war science, math science, medical science, political science, migrations,
land discoveries, and moral changes.
By overlaying all these
sciences I could see how each affected the other. A simple example is how the invention of
dynamite and later canons ended the building of castles. Consider how
penicillin changed the world, or how transportation has changed the world
starting with the steam engine.
The industrial revolution
could not have happened without railroads and steamboats.
Science has done more to
change the world than any other thing.
This is why I am so obsessed by true science, and false science. True science is facts, and false science is
democratic, political consensus.
Observation
Let us go back to my
obsession. I watch people in church and
by their actions can know something about their relationship with God. Those who understand that God is in the tabernacle
and He wants us to talk with Him, are there to pray. Others who understand God as being in the
people want to socialize as a way of worship.
I watch people in the streets
(especially the young) and I can see what is important to them by the way they
dress or act. Some young people today
have never, ever, read a complete book.
They have ideas and opinions based on nothing except feelings. This is no different than animals.
Someone told me they believed
in evolution. I asked if they understood
potassium argon dating. No! I asked if they understood carbon X11 and
X1V. No! I asked if they knew how lime
stone was made. No! Strata
layers, coal production, oil and gas, ozone, etc. No!
Then I wondered how someone could believe in something they knew noting
about.
I wrote about a priest, who
has children by a nun, and has even admitted to it. These are facts. However, I get hate mail from people who know
this priest personally and ask how I can say these things about a man who is so
nice and loving and does so much good.
Well, how about the founder
of the Legionaries of Christ, who thousands thought to be a holy saint. Only after overwhelming facts came forth of
drugs, pedophilia and illegal children, have people began to question their
feelings about this priest.
I am overwhelmed how people
have strong opinions about things, people and movements that they know almost
nothing about except what they have heard and want to believe.
History and Apparitions
When I first started
studying apparitions and the history of apparitions, the very first I noted was
in the Second Century. A man named, Montanus began to have false
ecstasies and began to prophesy. He misled entire towns of Christians by his
miracles. Two women, Priscilla and
Maximilla, received the same power from the demons. The miracles
impressed his followers. He claimed a separate and superior revelation over the
authority of the bishops. He taught that a new kingdom was coming in his
lifetime. He further claimed that after him, there would be no more prophets.
He was so influential, Tertullian fell into this error. A saintly priest told Montanus, that if the
Virgin Mary appeared to him and told him that Montanism was the true religion,
he would believe in it. In fact, she did
appear, but the good priest held up the Eucharistic Lord, and told her to bow
down and worship her God. This so-called
virgin Mary disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Why do I tell this
story? Think about it. By signs and wonders, Montanus and his two
followers convinced a great part of the Church, even saints. We find the same teaching in the Charismatics
today, and the same obsession with signs and wonders the people had way back in
the Second Century. How many years were
people fooled by these people? At least
a generation, and to this day Montanism still has a following.
If the people in the Second
Century used the principles of thinking, they would not have been fooled. Principles - God cannot contradict God, Satan
has the power of signs and wonders, Satan always
appears as an angle of light and goodness.
The long term consequences of movements can be predicted. If Montanus
was correct, all people would get religious truth direct from God and there
would be no need of the Church that God founded to preserve truth.
Consequences of opinions without facts
Consequences – why are the lives
of people today so corrupted compared to 40 years ago. The change has been Psychology. Why do we
have the worst education system in the industrial world today (even though it
is the most expensive), and 40 years ago it was the best education system?
We can understand
consequences even before they happen.
Einstein was able to predict the results of things even before they were
tried. Valocoski
was able to predict what we would find in space before we went there.
I can predict the end of
modernism before it comes because the consequences are self evident. If the birth rate of a nation is zero, what
will the nation be in two generations?
Part of thinking is to want to ask good questions and to want to know
the answers.
The consequences of not thinking
are the entire reason for this article. Bad, uneducated thinking brings on bad
consequences. If you look at the bankruptcies of GM and Chrysler and the fact
that Secured Bondholders got nothing and at the same time Unions almost lost
nothing, many would support the Unions because they think these are the working
people who make the cars that will same the companies. That is an unbelievable emotional non
thinking opinion. In fact the
ramifications of this government decision may in fact destroy
These are the facts:
1. The two major reasons for
2. The real facts of GM and
Chrysler’s deals with the government is the
destruction of the Rule of Law in the Constitution. Part of the Rule of Law is Contract Law. What is a Secured Bondholder? It is someone who loaned money that was
secured by fixed assets. If they were
not paid back they could own the secured assets. This is the same as a Mortgage Contract. If you do not pay your mortgage, the bank can
take your house, which is the security.
A Credit card is not secured, and that is why the Credit Card cost a
great deal more in interest than the Mortgage.
A Secured Bondholder gets much less interest than an Unsecured
Bondholder, because he has the security of a fixed asset that he has first
rights to over everyone else.
When the Government threw out
these contracts in favor of the Unions, they violated the Constitution, the
Rule of Law and Contract Law. The ramifications of this is that no one in
This was done deliberately by
the government to destroy the Rule of Law in favor of progressivism and I can
prove it. Chrysler claimed to the court
that it was loosing $100,000,000 per day as the Supreme Court waited to rule on
this case. At the same time they only
owed the Secured Bondholders $43,000.000.
They could have just paid off the Bonds and walked away, but they wanted
to set the precedent by braking this Rule of Law.
Schools
What good are Social Studies
to education? Why do we have social
classes required for people looking for an Engineering Degree? Look at a list of college classes and you
tell me how many of these classes are stupid and could just as easily be
studied at home without college. They
have no useful meaning in the real world.
The basics are needed to even
learn other things. The basics are
reading, writing, math, science and history.
After we learn these and learn them well we can then study our chosen
subject.
If you understand English,
listen to people talk on Television and you will see they never learned the
basics of education.
I predict that someday public
schools will no longer exist. They will
be replaced by Education clinics paid for by parents, unions and businesses.
At one time the parents of a
town educated children themselves or hired someone to teach them one by one or
in groups of 10 or 20. Unions taught
future members to be great machinists and then offered this talent to companies,
who needed the educated worker. Businesses
who could not find talent, trained them in their own schools before hiring
them. This is done today in the tech
industry and will be done in every industry in the future. You will find all the banks opening a school
of economics to prepare for the future of their industry, without the
brainwashing they are getting today.
Thinking Success and Failure
Everyone wants to be
successful in live but because we no longer teach ethics and morals in school
or home, most people think of success in terms of money or power. It does not matter how they made the money or
got the power. More often than not
today, compromising principles and ethics is the road to financial success. But are these successful people admired? Do you admire the wealth of the original
Rockefeller, who made his money illegally by bankrupting the oil riggers? Do
you admire the bankers, who admitted making millions in commissions by bundling
bad mortgages and selling them around the world? Do you admire the realtors,
who sold homes to people they knew could not pay them back. They took their commissions and ran away from
the contract without a twinge of conscience.
I admire the people who give up their jobs or money for the principles
of ethics and morals. “I loved my
relationship and miss it, but it required me to compromise my ethics and
beliefs to maintain this relationship and I cannot do that.” This is what I admire and I think God does
also.
Voting and thinking
When you voted in the last
election, what did you know about the person you voted for? You knew what he promised but what did you
know about the person? Did you care
enough to find out, to investigate?
Yes! I am obsessed by the
fact that people do not think and do not want to. They do not want to know the
truth because the truth might make them see that they have been wrong for many
years, and they cannot accept being wrong.
If you have not already read
them, I have already written three articles on this same obsession of
mine: Core Values and Principles
; Common Sense & The Rule of Law ; The Information Age and Lack of Knowledge
Below are people who I believe know how to think ------
Lou
Pritchett
Dear
President Obama:
You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the
others, you truly scare me.
You
scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.
You
scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League
education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of
support.
You
scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in
You
scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.
You
scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it
at its core.
You
scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others.
You
scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical
extremists who hate
You
scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame
You
scare me because you want to change
You
scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government
controlled one.
You
scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own
vast oil, coal and shale reserves.
You
scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the
golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.
You
scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain
banks and corporations.
You
scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your
wild and irresponsible spending proposals.
You
scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points
of view from intelligent people.
You
scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and
omniscient.
You
scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.
You
scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs,
Hannitys, O'Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.
You
scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.
Finally,
you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe
in writing a similar letter in 8 years.
Lou
Pritchett
Note:
Lou Pritchett is a former vice president of Procter & Gamble whose career
at that company spanned 36 years before his retirement in 1989, and he is the
author of the 1995 business book, Stop Paddling & Start Rocking the Boat.
Lee Iacocca
Remember Lee Iacocca, the
man who rescued Chrysler Corporation from its death throes? He's now 82
years old and has a new book, 'Where Have All The Leaders Gone?'.
Lee Iacocca Says:
'Am I the only guy in this
country who's fed up with what's happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We
should be screaming bloody murder! We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering
our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us
blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid
car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when
the politicians say, 'Stay the course.'
Stay the course? You've got
to be kidding. This is
You might think I'm getting
senile, that I've gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to
speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore.
The most famous business
leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we're fiddling
in
I've had enough. How about you?
I'll go a step further. You
can't call yourself a patriot if you're not outraged. This is a fight I'm ready
and willing to have. The Biggest 'C' is Crisis! (Iacocca elaborates on nine C's
of leadership, with crisis being the first.)
Leaders are made, not born.
Leadership is forged in times of crisis. It's easy to sit there with your feet
up on the desk and talk theory. Or send someone else's kids off to war when
you've never seen a battlefield yourself. It's another thing to lead when your
world comes tumbling down.
On September 11, 2001, we
needed a strong leader more than any other time in our history. We needed
a steady hand to guide us out of the ashes. A hell of a mess, so here's where
we stand.
We're immersed in a bloody
war with no plan for winning and no plan for leaving.
We're running the
biggest deficit in the history of the country.
We're losing the
manufacturing edge to
Gas prices are skyrocketing,
and nobody in power has a coherent energy policy. Our schools are in
trouble.
Our borders are like
sieves.
The middle class is being
squeezed every which way.
These are times that cry out
for leadership.
But when you look around,
you've got to ask: 'Where have all the leaders gone?' Where are the curious,
creative communicators? Where are the people of character, courage, conviction,
omnipotence, and common sense? I may be a sucker for alliteration, but I think
you get the point.
Name me a leader who has a
better idea for homeland security than making us take off our shoes in airports
and throw away our shampoo?
We've spent billions of
dollars building a huge new bureaucracy, and all we know how to do is react to
things that have already happened.
Name me one leader who
emerged from the crisis of Hurricane Katrina. Congress has yet to spend a
single day evaluating the response to the hurricane or demanding accountability
for the decisions that were made in the crucial hours after the storm.
Everyone's hunkering down,
fingers crossed, hoping it doesn't happen again. Now, that's just crazy. Storms
happen. Deal with it. Make a plan. Figure out what you're going to do the next
time.
Name me an industry
leader who is thinking creatively about how we can restore our competitive edge
in manufacturing. Who would have believed that there could ever be a time when
'The Big Three' referred to Japanese car companies? How did this happen, and
more important, what are we going to do about it?
Name me a government leader
who can articulate a plan for paying down the debit, or solving the energy
crisis, or managing the health care problem. The silence is deafening. But
these are the crises that are eating away at our country and milking the middle
class dry.
I have news for the gang in
Congress. We didn't elect you to sit on your asses and do nothing and remain
silent while our democracy is being hijacked and our greatness is being
replaced with mediocrity. What is everybody so afraid of? That
some bonehead on NBC news or CNN news will call them a name?
Give me a break. Why don't you guys show some spine for a change?
Had Enough? Hey, I'm not
trying to be the voice of gloom and doom here. I'm trying to light a
fire. I'm speaking out because I have hope - I believe in
If I've learned one thing,
it's this: 'You don't get anywhere by standing on the
sidelines waiting for somebody else to take action. Whether it's building a
better car or building a better future for our children, we all have a role to
play. That's the challenge I'm raising in this book. It's a "Call to
Action" for people who, like me, believe in
Make your own contribution by
sending this to everyone you know and care about. It's our country, folks, and
it's our future. Our future is at stake!!
Pam Getter
Wake up
I am a student
of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books in six languages, and have
studied history all my life. I think there is something monumentally large
afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis,
or a credit crisis. Yes,
these exist but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is
only now coming into a sharper focus.
Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it
because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react
to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening
within our country that has been evolving for about 10 - 15 years. The pace has
dramatically quickened in the past year or two.
We demanded and then codified into law the requirement that our
banks make massive loans to people whom we knew could never pay back! Why? We
learned recently that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no
real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that
is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not
tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms . That is our
money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the
$700B we all argued about so strenuously just this past September.
Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms
unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a
government of "We the People," who loaned our powers to our elected
leaders. Apparently not.
We have spent two or more decades intentionally
de-industrializing our economy. Why?
We have intentionally dumbed down our
schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we
are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot
write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting,
teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to
back mediocrity. Why?
We have now established the precedent of protesting every close
election (now violently in
Now our mortgage
industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are
failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, Social Security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and
our entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke... (I teach
college and know precisely what I am talking about.) The list is staggering in its length,
breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x 10. And
we are at war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the
same religion who cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have
the opportunity to do so.
And now we have elected a man no one knows anything about, who has
never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as
Mr. Obama's winning platform can be
boiled down to one word: Change. Radical change. Why?
I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as
I am now. This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has
never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide
us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces
into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same
Nation of Freedom, again.
And that is only the beginning.
I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary,
moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former
smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to
nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with groups that
shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged
his way onto the political stage through great oratory and promises. Economic
times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he
smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out
for fear that his "brown shirts" would bully them into submission.
And then he was duly elected to office, with a full-throttled
economic crisis at hand [the Great Depression]. Slowly but surely he
seized the controls of government power, department by department, person by
person, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The kids joined a Youth Movement in
his name, where they were taught what to think. How did he get the people
on his side? He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless,
and goodies for the military-industrial complex. He did it by
indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all,
better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the
country, across
He did it with a compliant media - Did you know that? And he did
this all in the name of justice and...change. And the
people surely got what they voted for. (Look it
up if you think I am exaggerating.) Read your history books. Many people
objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and made fun
of. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s
while seated in theHouse of Lords in
Don't forget that
As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions,
I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence
tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history
is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am
wrong, close my eyes, have another latte and ignore what is transpiring around
me.
Some people
scoff at me. Others laugh or think I am foolish, naive, or both. Perhaps I am.
But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly
what I believe - and why I believe it. I pray I am wrong. But, I do not think I
am.
Robert A. Hall
"I'm Tired"
I'll be 63 soon. Except for one semester in college
when jobs were scarce, and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but
job-hunting every day, I've worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health
challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick in seven
or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income,
and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there's no retirement in
sight, and I'm tired. Very tired.
I'm tired of being told that I
have to "spread the wealth around" to people who don't have my work
ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by
force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy or stupid to earn it.
I'm tired of being told that I
have to pay more taxes to "keep people in their homes." Sure, if they
lost their jobs or got sick, I'm willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off,
$250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the leftwing Congress
critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that
created the bubble help them-with their own money.
I'm tired of being told how bad
I'm tired of being told that
Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of
stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their
family "honor;" of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of
Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers;"
of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims
to death for "adultery;" of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little
girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an
and Shari'a law tells them to.
I believe "a man should be
judged by the content of his character, not by the color of his
skin." I'm tired of being told that "race doesn't matter"
in the post-racial world of President Obama, when it's all that matters in affirmative
action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities
(harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the
ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more
than anyone, and in the appointment of US Senators from Illinois. I think it's
very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her
homework at the desk where
I'm tired of a news media that
thinks Bush's fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama's, at triple the cost, were wonderful. That joins in
the chorus; "It's all Bush's fault"--the economy, the unemployment
the housing failures when the facts clearly prove that he had been
warning about the same for years but got ridiculed from the congressional
'left'. I'm also tired of a media that thinks Bush exercising daily
was a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for
the public to control weight and stress, that picked over every line of Bush's
military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his, that slammed Palin with two years as governor for being too
inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with three years as senator as
potentially the best president ever.
Wonder why people are dropping
their subscriptions or switching to Fox News? Get a clue. I didn't vote for
Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.
I'm tired of being told that out
of "tolerance for other cultures" we must let
I'm tired of being told I must
lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to
debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five
miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and
granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore's, and if
you're greener than Gore, you're green enough.
I'm tired of being told that drug
addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the
damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff
white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don't think Gay
people choose to be Gay, but I damn sure think druggies chose to take drugs.
And I'm tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I
tell them I never tried marijuana.
I'm tired of illegal aliens being called "undocumented workers," especially the ones who aren't working, but are living on welfare or crime. What's next? Calling drug dealers, "Undocumented Pharmacists"? And, no, I'm not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic and it's been several hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill anyone for their religion. I'm willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person who can speak English, doesn't have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military. Those are the citizens we need.
I'm tired of latte liberals and
journalists, who would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or
let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our
military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make
split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better
people then themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our troops
sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that were the
policy of our enemies for the last fifty years-and still are? Not even close.
So here's the deal. I'll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse
that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be subject to
captivity by the Muslims who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or
the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in
Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our
troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in
Indonesia, because the girls were Christian. Then we'll compare notes. British
and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for
help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear.
I'm tired of hearing wealthy
athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes,
stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only
mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement,
rich or poor.
Speaking of poor, I'm tired of hearing people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs, cell phones and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn't have that in 1970, but we didn't know we were "poor." The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.
I'm real tired of people who don't take
responsibility for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the
government, or discrimination, or big-whatever for their problems.
Yes, I'm tired. But I'm also glad to be 63.
Because, mostly, I'm not going to get to see the world these people are making.
I'm just sorry for my granddaughter.
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who
served five terms in the