Not long ago I read a joke ... It said all the politicians
running for president are promising change to the American people. We send them billions and billions of tax dollars and they send us the change.

Funny?

Not really; there is too much truth in it to be funny.

That got me to thinking ... They all promise change..

How about if they run on a promise of restoration rather than change. A restoration that would take us back in time to a place where things ran better, smoother and life was more enjoyable. Change? That, in truth, is what they have been giving us all along.

We used to have a strong dollar .. Politicians changed that.

Life used to be sacred ... Politicians changed that.

Marriage used to be sacred ... Politicians are changing that.

We used to be respected around the world ... Politicians changed that.

We used to have a strong manufacturing economy ...Politicians changed that.

We used to have lower tax structures ... Politicians changed that.

We used to enjoy more freedoms ... Politicians changed that.

We used to be a large exporter of American made goods ...
Politicians changed that.

We used to be an openly Christian nation ... Politicians
changed that.

We used to teach patriotism in schools ... Politicians
changed that.

We used to educate children in schools ... Politicians
changed that.

We used to enjoy freedom of speech ... Politicians changed
that.

We used to enforce LEGAL citizenship ... Politicians
changed that.

We used to have affordable food & gas prices ..
Politicians changed that, too. ... and one could go on and on with this list.

What hasn't been changed, politicians are promising to
change that as well if you will elect them.

When, oh when, is America going to sit back with open eyes
and look at what we once were and where we have come and say, enough is enough?

The trouble is, America 's youthful voters today don't know of the great America that existed forty and fifty years ago. They see the world as if it has always existed, as it is now.

When will we wake up? Tomorrow may be too late. When will
America realize ..Politicians are what is wrong with America?

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We do not mentor and raise leaders in this country anymore. We nurture followers and followers will follow anyone. They will follow Barney Frank into the Fanny and Freddie debacle or Wall Street into a depression. It's the blind leading the blind! 

As you said, the young know nothing of patriotic duty, national pride or of their responsibilities toward freedoms that were won with blood. Nothing!

In all things there must be discipline and responsibility and a heartfelt value for ethics, morals and the ideals that made this nation great. We were a flash in the pan, a shooting star that some how has gone into that great night.

Our nation is about to learn a terrible lesson for their follies. The Blue Print Prophecy for-tells of this coming tragedy. The ears of our children hear nothing and their eyes have been sealed shut with the need for their feel goods and their ignorant greed.  It is coming, unfortunately.

I can only hope and pray that the innocent are spared.

Forrest you have certainly hit the nail on the head. We're all to blame for sitting back and letting it happen. We should have been holding our leaders to a higher standard. I pray it's not too late to get this great country of ours back on the right track.

Too many of our young people of today have no idea how to sacrifice and make do. They want everything now and they want it with the least amount of effort, including government handouts.

Evelyn