Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Today is the big day to be with family and friends to give thanks for everything....God, family, friends and this great country. I give thanks to God for my family, now 15 strong, all healthy & happy. My friends, some I have known for 50 years, are all honorable, honest & patriotic men and women. This great country, which is a beacon of freedom to the world shows what can happen when a group of people are free and stand as one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

We saw a movie the other night called "Taking Chances" starring Kevin Bacon as a Lt Col in the Marine Corps who volunteers to escort the body of a Marine private home who was KIA in Iraq to a small town south of Billings, MT. It was based on a true story and very moving for as he made the trip everyone treated him and especially the fallen Marine with great respect. When I see a movie like this based on a true story it is Thanksgiving everyday, not just once a year. For regardless of where we come from we are Americans from sea to shinning sea.

Everyone have a wonderful Thanksgiving and pray for our troops.

The State of the Nation

As I travel around North Texas, Southern Arkansas & Louisiana I hear more and more how much people are dissatisfied with the way the country is going under the Democrat majority and the Republican minority. To paraphrase Churchill---never has so few done so much to so many. Congress has the lowest approval rating in history, yet everyone like his or her Congressman and/or Senator. This lowest approval rating doesn't stop them from doing whatever they please...giving themselves a raise, working 3 days a week and at least 2 months a year off to name a few. From what I understand they are in the process of ramming through a national health care bill that no one really understands, doesn't know how we are going to pay for it and the very Senators & Representatives that are pushing it through have add an amendment exempting themselves from the plan. What does that mean?

The founders of our nation wrote the Constitution with safe guards to prevent government oppression and to maintain the rights of the individual. Yet one hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine
Supreme Court justices, which equates to 545 human beings out of the 300
million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible
for the domestic problems that plague this country. Do we the people vote for higher taxes? Are we the people allowed to correct our income tax mistakes without penalties? Are we the people allowed to take a year off with pay to run for office? Are we the people allowed to give ourselves a raise? Do we the people even have a voice in government any more?

We have all but abandoned God and moral high ground, and justifiably so God and moral high ground as all but abandoned us. Given all this we must never give up. Keep voicing you opinion and maybe someday we will be heard.