Sunday Morning Blog

September 12, 2005

Faith and Hope

This is copied from my response to this posting on Boston Cod: An Open Letter To The President

Several times in comments to your posts, I have made clear that I feel our priorities as a country are totally out of whack. Were our focus where it should be: protecting our citizens from danger (foreign, domestic and natural), teaching our less fortunate to help themselves (rather than perpetuating the reliance on welfare), reducing our dependence on foreign oil (this starts at the local and individual level), fighting crime, reducing big government, and curbing the erosion of family values, we would be forging a good beginning. These are all constructive suggestions, and I question where those who are blaming government in this would stand. I question where monies in the state of Louisiana were being put to good use in any of these areas over the years... and that is no fault of the current administration, nor is it a political issue. Our priorities are completely messed and have been for some time!

Those leading the charge in making this tragedy a political issue, are those whose dream is a socialist Utopia - they are hellbent to see that capitalism fails. These are the same people who would have us believe that America and all it represents has been flawed back to Washington and Jefferson. They are convinced that capitalism is unfair and that somehow equality will be had when it has been destroyed. I disagree. The alternatives to democracy and capitalism are not the cure to our ills.

Some of us feel that the current administration was, and is, our best hope toward protecting our freedoms and our system of government. We are opposed to people who equate faith with the dark side, and a strong military with evil. Should we allow the blame-government-first crowd to forward their anti-America policies, the storm we would experience would be no natural disaster. God help us all.

The words faith, God and America are words that these people would prefer we eliminate from our vocabulary. Some of us still have some amount of faith and hope in democracy - and the courage to protect the American way of life. Courage is something these people would know nothing about. I am not saying you are one of these people, but in echoing their arguments you are playing right into their hands.

Posted by capecodcyclist at September 12, 2005 08:22 AM