My View on the current state of America

     I honestly believe that we live in the best country in the world.  If it's not it used to be and it can be again.  Following are a few observations that I have made and would like to expand on.

     I have heard several people lately say that "we need to put religion back in government".  Well frankly folks.  We may have had some elected officials who were devoutly religious, but our government was never based on religion.  Actually most of our forefathers came here because they were looking for religious freedom, not because they wanted to be governed by religion.  I am pretty sure that we couldn't get two out of three religions in America to agree on 10 items on the same page.
     I read that some far right wing legislator has introduced wording in a bill that would require a woman, including one who was raped, to have to get the mans permission before she could have an abortion.  Here we go again with the right wing Republicans pissing on a woman's right to do what she wants with her own body.  We don't have to like abortions. They exist.  Fact of life.  A woman's body belongs to her and nobody else.  I know one thing.  My mother is as far right wing as they come and I can guarantee that hell would freeze over before she would ever ask anybody for permission to do what she wants with her body.

     In all this discussion and protesting about innocent black men getting shot nobody is digesting the truth.  The media feeds the ignorance.  What I don't understand is why nobody sees that while they think the Republicans are working for a police state.  The more respect that we take away from the police, the more power we give to the government as a whole.  and that is a bad thing.  The other thing that I don't understand is all the Talk from Al Sharpton and the rest of the race baiters is putting blame on the police and not one of the "innocent black men" is taking responsibility for their own actions.  I want to know why Al Sharpton is not protesting black on black violence in Chicago where gang violence kills more blacks in a month than the total of all the police departments in America do in a year.  Why are they not marching and protesting the lack of responsibility taken by black fathers for their children in America.  Why are they not marching because black kids don't stay in school and get the education that they deserve.  All he screams for is more money, more programs, more racial tension.  The joke is his very existence is paid for by white liberals and government programs because lord knows the blacks don't do anything to help themselves and they don't have the money to fund his extravagances.

     Frankly I am tired of feeling like my rights are being assaulted by the people that we have elected to govern this country.