PROMISE LOST!

I'm writing this because I remember America as it once was. We were a proud nation! We were made up of people who came here from all over the seeking freedom, a good life and the chance to be the best that they could be. We worked long hard hours in mines , factories and whereever our jobs happened to be. We had schools that actually taught our children how to excel and prepare themselves for college. We were going to beat those Soviet communists by turning out better rocket scientists and physicists and we did it!

We were going to turn out doctors and engineers and researchers and scientists of all kinds and we were going to have a standard of living that was equaled nowhere else in the world and we did! We were the envy of the world!

This country played a major role in defeating the axis powers during WWII. We beat the Soviets. We bankrupted them in Afghanistan. We put men on the moon. We made the Berlin wall crumble. We made the Soviets dismantle their missile bases in Cuba.

What happened to us?

I remember that, as a young solidier in Turkey, I observed cab drivers shutting their engine off at stoplights to conserve gas and in Norway I observed that people were paying about $2.00 per gallon for gas in 1967 (gas in the U.S. was about 25 cents a gallon at that time). I remember thinking that I was glad to be an American because I didn't have to shut my engine off at stoplights to conserve fuel. Today I practice hypermiling and I do shut my engine off at stoplights to conserve fuel. Today I am paying $4.00 per gallon for gas as are all Americans.

What happened to us?

Forget the global economy. Let Europe and Asia, Africa and all of the others deal with their own problems in their own way. This is America. This is the land of unlimited promise! If we don't have enough domestic oil we drill for more, we find a way to manufacture alternatives to oil, gas and diesel. We lead the world. We don't let the world lead us. We don't allow the Europeans to show us the way and we don't accept fuel prices which bankrupt us and threaten our standard of living just because the Old World, which our forefathers escaped, accepts them. We got away from the Old World and its corrupt ways long ago. Why would we want to wallow in the same hopelessness that they wallow in?

We are Americans. We show the world how it is done. We don't learn from the washed up tired nations of the Old World. We dont't accept a flood of ILLEGAL immigrants coming accross our southern border who offer nothing but a drain on our economy and who know how to do nothing but mow lawns and who send their earnings back to their countries of origin while using our money to birth their "anchor babies".

We are supposed to be a beacon to the world. Other countries should take their cues from us. We can't have a better America by turning back to what our forefathers escaped from!

We need to fix our schools and force them to teach our young people and to discharge those students that don't want to learn so those who do want to learn can. We need to "smart them up" instead of "dumbing them down" and if the current crop of school administrators and teachers can't do the job then we need to bring in a fresh crop!

We need to get a grip on our energy situation and produce more than we use instead of using more than we produce. We need to get our immigration under control. America is way past the point where it can absorb limitless numbers of immigrants especially immigrants who enter ILLEGALLY and who have no intention of assimilating and who don't even care enough about this country to learn our language and who expect us to adapt to a two language society.

We can't continue down the path we have been on lately. If we do we will be no better than France or Camaroon, Nigeria or Indonesia. We will be a "melted pot" instead of a melting pot!

America needs to turn inward. We need to spend a lot of time fixing our problems. We need to rebuild our economy and our confidence. We need to stop saying "we can't" and "we shouldn't" and we need to show the world that we can do things faster, better, cheaper,and more efficiently than those old tired countries in Europe and the rest of the world. When we do that we will, once again, be a beacon of hope to the world.