Can Our Nation Afford Mesmerizing Promises of Hope and Change?

ARRA News Service is pleased to present the following guest editorial by a Bradley County, Arkansas conservative Renee Taylor. She is a freelance writer, photographer, home schooling mom and publicist for Joey Holiday. She is a Contributing Editor for Family Security Matters editor/webmistress of American Truckers at War.
by Renee Taylor: "I pledge allegiance to the United Nations, the rulers of the world, one nation under socialism..." Is this really a stretch? How could our once great nation have spiraled into current state of affairs? As we face the upcoming presidential election, we have a charismatic, mesmerizing candidate who has promised "hope" and "change" to a bloc of voters so numbed by years of socialist indoctrination in our school system that they cannot see the disaster that is bearing down at a lightening fast pace.

Our once great nation is careening into a cesspool of immorality and despair brought upon us by a public education system that more and more often does not turn out the best and the brightest, but the dazed and confused.Without the slightest understanding of basic economics and government, they remain glued to the stage, weeping, as their "savior" promises empty words - "hope and change."

It was my nine-year-old son, Lee, who inadvertently described what could be the answer to our nation's decline, as he quoted Newton's Law - "For every action, there is an equal but opposite reaction."

We are now paying up to $4 per gallon for gasoline, even more in some areas. What is Washington's "action?" To continue it's refusal to allow offshore drilling and access to ANWR and other oil-rich resources. In their nearly perverse submission to members of the ecological movement (whose apparent goal is to keep us dependent upon foreign oil), refineries have not been built, other nations are now allowed either to lease or drill off our coast, and the average American can ill afford to drive to work, school and the grocery store. Now that we have reached a critical point with our economy, it is the oil companies - not the long standing ban on domestic drilling and stifling restrictions on building new refineries imposed by Washington - that get the blame. Presidential candidate Barack Obama and others refuse to support domestic drilling - something that will not only decrease our dependency on foreign oil, but will create badly needed jobs for American workers. Jobs not "created" by government, but by the private sector. This is contrary to the goal of the "nanny state," which seeks to control every aspect of your lives, from what pay and benefits you receive on your job to what kind of light bulb you use in your home. A generation of voters indoctrinated by "Captain Planet" and photos of seagulls with plastic rings around their necks will ensure that, while the snail darter is safe, America could very well be rationing gasoline.

While America slept, jobs were outsourced and basic goods were no longer manufactured in the United States. In our quest for materialism, we demanded cheap, readily available Chinese made products. Consumers purchased with reckless abandon clothing, electronics and food imported from China, Mexico and every nation in between. While American workers demanded pay and benefits their employers could not afford, Chinese sweatshops were busily sewing designer jeans and assembling substandard plastic toys and household goods. Our customer service jobs were outsourced to the Philippines and Asia as our government funded education system turns out graduates without basic knowledge of math and English.

Immoral behavior is rewarded richly with government benefits at the cost of the American worker via increased taxation. Potential voters cheer at every promise of government-sponsored health care without thought to how the government actually receives its income (the American worker). And why not? Children are not taught consequences for their actions.Recently, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, 17 high school students may have struck a deal with one another to become pregnant. Regardless of the excuse of the girls, one of whom became impregnated by a 24-year-old homeless man, there will likely be no consequence to them.With tax dollars building day care centers in public schools, readily available "free" medical care, food stamps and government assisted housing, we now have 17 single mothers potentially dependent upon the government. Schools, without parental intervention, teach our children not the consequences of sexual activity, but how to do it "safely. "The effect has been undereducated single parents dependent upon a "nanny state" funded by a working middle class already struggling to support their own families.

We have become an empty nation with no moral compass, no national pride, no faith in God and our government. The traditional family - dad, mom and children - has given way to "applicant A and applicant B" as California forces same sex marriages upon voters, boldly disregarding the will of the majority. We are inundated by claims that certain groups are "offended" by our Pledge of Allegiance because of the words "Under God." However, the American people are finally awakening and realizing we are not the great nation of go-getters we once were, but devolving into a country whose citizens are looking to government for help with home heating bills, solutions to the oil crisis our own elected officials created and the burden of supporting broken homes and illegal aliens.

Here in Warren, Arkansas, and across the state, a petition is circulating asking Little Rock to refuse public assistance to illegal aliens. Many families are returning to growing and canning their own fruits and vegetables, tired of contaminated foods from other countries poisoning our citizens. Over one million people have signed a petition at AmericanSolutions.com demanding Washington allow domestic drilling. We are tired of sweating to support our families while children bear children dependent upon government assistance, using funds forcibly taken out of our paychecks via taxation.

Proverbs 12:11 states: "He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding." Will be till our own land - use our vast energy resources, grow food to feed our families and take pride in our hard work and efforts? Or will we blindly follow vain, narcissistic politicians with mesmerizing, empty promises of "hope" and "change"?

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