We have entered
Bizarro Land. There's no turning back
when Fox News' Bill O'Reilly actually has a point in his pocket, and at the
expense of fellow conservative Michele Bachmann no less.
The United
States is a land of excess, a land of waste, and the purple mountains are
rapidly turning shades of stark reds and icy blues. We have taken what was once a million scenes
of glory and are destroying our lush resources.
This is what we
do.
Power to the
people! And whoever has the most power
wins.
Bachmann has
thrown her aimless dart at the supposed excess lifestyle of President Obama and
his family. If she wanted to shove
examples down our Godless throats, she could have gone any number of ways, but
chose instead to bring "statistics" from an unknown, unsourced
book. What is wrong with people in the
spotlight that they can't be bothered to back up what they sling? Yes, we all have opinions. I'm guiltier than most of tossing mine out to
the wide web. I'm not stating it as fact,
however, and this is the mistake our lady Michele makes time and again. When has President Obama excessed any more so
than previous Chiefs?
What is wrong
with us that we support people like her, put them into office with
every election, as our corner of the world crumbles around us? Too many of us are down and out, and like
Rocky Balboa we need a serious comeback.
Toby Keith heralded us into victory after 9/11, but it was a fleeting
togetherness painted on a flimsy patriotic canvas.
Our society is
government-run, but has become completely ineffective in its power. Few people really receive the help they
need. They are sent to stand in lines,
fill out paperwork that too many can't even read. or disregarded completely like litter on the street
that we want to ignore, while we go on in our blind ambles to spend money we
don't have, shove too much food in our bellies and judge those we do not know.
Isn't our
country just the bestest like that? Yes,
we have it better than so, so many. But
at what cost? How many of us put a
price tag on our souls and sold it at the nearest Nordie's? I wish people would wake up to the disrepair
we are in, not just economically but humanly too. Really take a look around, but use our hands
as well as our eyes.
I'm no saint,
but I know the difference between what is right, and what is just absurd.
(c) Kymberlie
Ingalls, March 23, 2013
(c) Kymberlie Ingalls, March 23, 2013
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