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American?
American, What’s this? It was a thing of Pride. Today if you ask what is America, you would find very little Pride and a lot of everything else.
A country founded on legal immigrants is now full of illegal immigrants. Anyone that crosses the border and calls themselves Americans of some sort. Cuban Americans, Italian Americans, Jewish Americans and even African Americans. I guess I grew up a little naive as my parents taught us to respect each other for who they are and how they treat you. Sure we had different races in our school, minorities you could say, but we didn’t even see that. We were all Americans.
We had a moment of silence in which we could pray if we wanted, if we didn’t we were quiet for that moment while others did. We then started the day with the Pledge of Allegiance. This one thing helped remind us of our freedoms and luxuries provided by those that have gone before us. I am not sure that even my nieces and nephews could recite those Proud All-Inclusive words.
Are we not Proud to be Americans or Just not willing to Pledge Allegiance to each other. Have we become so selfish, we cannot realize we need each other for our country to survive?
I cant blame any one generation. Even my own parents and grandparents generations quietly and unknowing allowed the changes, not that they aren’t Proud Americans, just that they probably allowed more liberties than any previous generations.
Liberties like Women’s right, Civil Rights were necessary, but as we became a more rich nation, we allowed more outside nations determine the future of our nation, doing this by buying more foreign made good, becoming dependant on other nations for goods, fuel, etc instead of investing more in research, scientific development and production of American goods. Its now as if we are owned by the other nations instead of Americans
We need to reclaim being Proud Americans by taking back our Congress and President. Reminding them that they are elected by the citizens of this country and not the lobbyist. That as members representing our country, they are held to the highest standards of the land.
We should be insuring that everyone in America is American and here Legally. All others need to be here in limited quantities and on only one of two plans, either by a visa for education or a visa for work. All illegal immigrants should be deported and made to apply for either visa or legal citizenship which should include learning to speak English, the Pledge of Allegiance and honoring the laws of America. We need to enforce our borders and seas.
We need to start taking care of everyone inside our borders before sending trillions of dollars every year to other nations while our own go hungry, without healthcare and homeless. America has always come the the needs of other countries because of genocide and natural disasters, but its time we let other countries fight their own battles. When we start taking care of our own, we have less need of dependence on other nations.
We need to start living within the needs of America. A balanced fiscal budget. Congress needs to insure that pork is what we eat, not spend.
We need to only have trade agreements with nations that believe in equal trade balances. Good and services for equal goods and services. We need to stop exporting our jobs and services and reward companies that keep their jobs here in America.
We as Americans need to expect that to receive and equal days wage, we need to earn that wage. This was none more evident than after the great depression. Americans were poor and learned that if you worked hard, you got ahead and made a good living for their families.
We need to believe in service to our country as a way of giving back for all that we have been given, instead of expecting more for pittance we pay. Taxes pay for the material things we use, service gives back for the freedoms we have been unselfishly provided.
If we just remember where we came from and have a vision of where we would like the future of our America to be, and know that it takes everyone one of us to get there, we can restore our Pride and be One Nation Under God, Our America.
I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it Stands, One Nation, Under God, Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice FOR ALL
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