What the HELL happened to MY country........

[clublights]

I seem to recall just a few years ago .. just as I did in the early 80's when being an AMERICAN was something to be proud of. when it was a badge of honor.

I know we have never been perfect as a country .. but when THE HELL did it become a "bad" thing ?
I'm personally sick of defending my being an American.
I'm sick of being proud of everything we have done.
I'm sick of helping with little to no thanks.
No country in the world has given as much as America has.
No country has sent her son's and daughter's into harms way to protect and serve OTHERS like we have.

When did we lose sight of songs like Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" ( I've met Mr. Greenwood several times, and heard him sing this live many times.... . I can bearly suck back tears when he sings it in an MP3/ on CD ..Live I ball like a little girl with a skinned knee.)
Toby Keith's " Red White and Blue", Neil Diamond's "America", The Air Force's Wild Blue Yonder, The Army's, The Army Goes Rolling Along, The Marine's, From The Halls Of Montezuma, To the Navy's, Anchors Away. ( I was a Navy Cadet so they will always top the list for me ) Again Mr. Keith's " American Soldier", America the Beautiful, To Plain Old .. God Bless America.

I Know a lot of us on this forum are mad , angry and flat out pissed the hell off at Mr. Obama and the general democratic party right now . but please lets remember that as bad as things feel right now. we can still VOTE and change things. We've been able to do this for over 200 years. not many places in this WORLD can say that.

Let's as a people not forget this fact, honor even in this cold February that Men and Women, Son's and Daughters, Father's and Mother's are out there RIGHT NOW making sure that that right is not taken away from our shores and even fighting to give other human beings the rights we love and hold so dear every day.

"Non Sibi Sed Patriae!"
(Not for self, but country)

[Graves]

I don't give a fuck what anybody says, I'm still proud to be an American and I wouldn't have it any other way.

[Bitter Clinger]

Amen to that! What about Charlie daniels' "in america"? At a place I used to work some dude called me a "flag waving redneck" because ol' glory out front was all beat to hell management wouldn't buy another one so I did! My answer was yup! Wish there were more like me!

[GhostRider]

I don't give a fuck what anybody says, I'm still proud to be an American and I wouldn't have it any other way.

I still have a flag outside my house everyday and it will be there as long as i am here. My grandfather taught me word like duty, honor, country, and family and I still believe things like that is what makes a man

[roberth]

Amen!!

I can't wait to vote in November.

If we can get some people in the House and Senate that believe in true values like work and reward for work instead of this entitlement bullshit we might be able to derail the socialist/marxist/communist plans of 'dear glorious leader' and the fuckin' democratic party.

The United States of America is the GREATEST country in the entire short history of mankind. We've done the mostest with the bestest and all without gratitude from the rest of the planet. The fact that we continue to provide help and assistance anywhere in the world in spite of all the negative shit from all the rest of the 'civilized' world is a continuing testament of our heart and soul.

Am I an American, HELL YES, wouldn't have it any other way.

[thane]

It's not about democrats vs. republicans. Our first president George Washington, warned against adopting a party system.

"...the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another." - George Washington

But we just had to have one, and now we're wading through the fallout.

Politics have become one giant high-school popularity contest, full of career politicians, who really don't care about anything other than staying in office.

I mean honestly, I can't think of any major-party president in the last four elections that I truly WANTED to vote for.

It was always a pick for the lesser of two evils.

does that seem symptomatic of larger problem to anyone else? or is it just me?

[roberth]

To answer the question - What the HELL happened to MY country........

This country is overrun with folks(parasites) who want something for nothing, and these folks are willing to use the government to confiscate assets from the people who have what these folks want. The party the parasites have chosen to exert their will is the Democrat Party and the leadership of the Democratic Party and quite a few Republicans are aiding and abetting the parasites.

[Mtn.man]

HOW DID THOMAS JEFFERSON KNOW??????

"It has beensaid the greatest volume of sheer brainpower in one place occurred when Jefferson dined alone...." John Kennedy

HOW DID JEFFERSON KNOW??????

Especially read the last quote from 1802.

And pass these on to your children and grandchildren!!




When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as

Europe.

Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson said in

1802

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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered..'

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If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.' -Mark Twain

IN GOD WE TRUST

GOD BLESS AMERICA

[Bailey Guns]

I don't think anything happened to our country. She's as great as ever.

I think much has gone wrong with our government and the attitude of our elected officials. I also think much of the electorate is ill-informed on issues and would rather vote for a person with personality over substance.

Personally, I think the more appropriate question is, "When did so many of the American people become so stupid?"

The answer to that began when so many people adopted the "entitlement mentality" that was pushed by politicians in order to gain influence, power and a lifetime job in congress. You can thank modern liberalism for that.

[jake]

The United States of America is the GREATEST country in the entire short history of mankind. We've done the mostest with the bestest and all without gratitude from the rest of the planet. The fact that we continue to provide help and assistance anywhere in the world in spite of all the negative shit from all the rest of the 'civilized' world is a continuing testament of our heart and soul.

Travel, you'll find that it's a very small minority of people in most countries who 'hate' America. I became an American citizen in October (I took my oath along with about 100 other people from the rest of the 'civilized' world who also love this country) but before that I traveled a lot in Europe with my American wife, and the closest thing to a negative reaction she received was from a waiter in Paris who jokingly said "American champagne" when she ordered a coke. I caught more crap from the French for being English than she ever did for being an American.

And regarding gratitude, have you ever been to one of the Allied cemeteries in France, Belgium or Holland? Visit one of those and then talk about how ungrateful the rest of the world is. Look into which countries offered assistance to the Unites States after Katrina and then talk about how ungrateful the rest of the world is. Watch the video of Haitians chanting "USA! USA!" after an American search and rescue team pulled a survivor out of the rubble a couple of weeks ago.