Isn't it time to wake up and do the right thing?

Since serving in the Military, I have had a great deal of time to consider and ponder whether or not civilians should be allowed to carry assault weapons or not. It has been a sensitive subject for a great deal of our public for years.

Honestly, I think it time that I weigh in on the subject and ask that we look at it from a fairly different perspective.

After many years of working in marketing, sales, advertising and management I have to say that if I really wanted to disrupt a country. I mean really disrupt a country at its’ core, I would plant information and force it citizens to focus all of their collective attention on as many subjects that have absolutely no real relevance to their daily life and ability to feed their families as possible.

I would wage a war of disinformation, speculation and hate in such a way as to ensure that nobody looked into the real issues of what was going on and what I really wanted to do. It would be in this confusion that I would steel their rights and take from them the things that they really should hold value in.

In this case, we are all embroiled in the debate of whether or not to ban assault rifles. We are focused on unisex or gender identificational bathrooms.

But, let’s ask ourselves some very serious questions.

If, and I say “if” because I am not taking a stand for or against either of these subjects, I am no longer allowed to own a firearm or an assault weapon, will I still be able to feed my family? Will it inhibit my ability to pay my mortgage? Will I be able to make it to work on time?

Now, the last time I checked, there was no need for me to go strapped to work. I have never seen Indian parachutes landing in the fields beyond my home, and the Mexican government had not taken forcible control of my workplace!

My abilities to provide have never been dependent on my personal ability to go into the woods and kill wild game.

My concern is the real issues of a takeover that has come into my country and not fired a shot and never will.

Currently, we have a government that seems bent removing our rights that we should hold dear and giving them to foreign powers.

For example, the daily newspaper in my little town, no longer employs US designers. Rather, they have chosen to send all of the creative design to India! So, rather than employ local people and keep the jobs local, they have chosen to be more concerned about the welfare of people in a country 7,000 miles away.

I ask, how is this acceptable? In our current government, we accept it and they ask you not to ask too many questions.

Another example, the larger of the two potato factories in my little town employs 90% immigrant labor!

Why do they do this? Simply because it is cheaper and worrying about employing full US citizens isn’t cost effective. Our government, again, gives them huge tax incentives to hire these intruders.

In the first case, we have our jobs being invaded by those from another country and the best part is? They have never set foot on US soil! In the second case, they came here, and were sponsored because it was cheaper. They remained here on Visa because the company was given additional tax breaks.

Now, do not misconstrue that I am anti-immigration. I am not! But I strongly feel that we must find a way to ensure that all of our countrymen are working and able to make a living wage before we allow so many Visa’s to be issued. WE need to find a way to ensure that single mothers can feed their children WITHOUT the assistance of the government. We need to create a climb in which the welfare system is for emergencies ONLY, not a living assistance to millions.

Instead, why doesn’t our government give tax incentives to hire single mothers?

Now, just to be clear, I am not a fan of the government being involved in minimum wage or giving tax breaks to anybody. I really feel that we need to consider a smaller government and find a way to resurrect a system that allows us to privately manage our resources. Something akin to what the unions are supposed to be and a very few cases, are. A system that creates the ability for companies to make money AND the employees to not feel trapped and forced to remain. A system where both sides can negotiate a fair deal that is truly win-win.

It is at this point that I could certainly site the earnings gap that has grown by over 1,000% in the last 20 years between the average CEO and his median employees but we are all painfully aware of this.

The moral of my story is that instead of focusing on whether or not I am allowed to possess an assault rifle which is pretty far down the list of rights that I am concerned about, I would rather focus on the real freedoms I am loosing on a daily basis.

We are slowly becoming blind to the things that should be important and focus very heavily on the things that DO NOT!

Until we begin to calm down and really focus on what should matter, we will never be able to be whole.

It isn’t until we begin to see that

1. Socialism is wrong
2. We need to tend our own lawn and stop worrying about others
3. Focus on rebuilding our Republic
4. Read up on the definition of Capitalism
5. Stand for something greater than ourselves

If we can start to do these simple things, then maybe… Just maybe we will no longer be forced to choose the lesser of two evils for a president and a real hero will finally step out of the shadows.

I am not sure about most of you, but when I was a kid we stood for something bigger than this. We built great things like the internet to be used for the betterment of man not so that we could record ourselves doing absolutely nothing!

We admired intelligence, we didn’t belittle it!

We answered the call because it was the right thing to do, not to look good or in the expectation something else!

We had rights and we held them dear!

Our live should matter in the greater scope of the world and they can, if we can only fight for the truth of what really should matter, not whether or not a confused kid can use the other side’s bathroom.

Come on People, it is time to wake up and do something. To find something really worth fighting for that actually means something and actually effects us in a meaningful way.

I pray that those among you who read this know that I am not pro or against any of these subjects. I just choose to worry and fight for things that actually matter!