Not Indifferent

Jul 27, 2009 12:30



One of my friends had this quote on her post recently:

“To remain silent and indifferent is

the greatest sin of all”.   Elie Wiesel

Shall we no longer remain silent? I cannot. To have an almost complete invasion into my life by the government is appalling to me; never, in all of my years, (and there are a lot of them) have we had to see the invasion that is taking place in our country. These last twenty years (or more) have added more and more to take away any rights we once had. It began with a tirade on smoking, and has succeeded in making smokers villains and the cause of more illnesses than they can find titles; then it was ATV’s, SUV’s, small trucks, recreation vehicles, seat belt laws, helmets on bicycles, motorcycles, little fish protected to the tune of millions and billions, and so many more I cannot list everything. If you think I am exaggerating, talk to some of the people who work in banks, construction, are buying a home, building a home or just plain trying to make a living. There are rules and laws for every damned possible thing you can name, and now they want to saddle us with cap and trade, health care, and have already saddled us with stimulus packages, TARP an out of  control budget and crisis after crisis.

Where are the people with common sense? Where are leaders who “Know”, not “think they know”. We are being led as if we are a ship of fools. Some are, and some aren’t. My theory is this: There are 20% on the left who will never change, no matter what the facts are: there are 20% on the right with the same mind-set, no change, no matter what. Then there are 10% sitting on the fence with their fingers in the air to test which way the wind is blowing, and I hope there are the 50% of us who are willing to listen and look and find the party with the ability to lead us out of this fiasco and back to less government and decisions made by the individuals, not some people who haven’t a clue what is happening and still tell us what we have to do….I am not confused….I am appalled….and frightened; this is my freedom of speech and if you disagree, that is your privilege, but I will no longer remain silent, nor have I ever been indifferent.  
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