Liberty has never come from the government.  Liberty has always come from the subjects of it.  The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

~ Woodrow Wilson

America, It Will Take Much More Than Our Daily Wants To Go Forward (Continue the previous Post )

II. The American family is broken.

Not entirely shattered, but certainly broken. When more then half the marriages end in divorce we have a problem; when one in three children lives in a home with only one biological parent we have a problem.

American Family by duckstrap in Flickr

There is more assaulting the American family then divorce and absenteeism. The familial essentials of time and attention are absent. The direct relationship between drugs and alcohol abuse among our youths and the lack of time and attention should be no surprise to our adult parents. What is surprising is how the parents still continue to engage in behavior that is overly harmful to our youths. *RESET

Remember adults you’re the role models for our children and we should as adults be cognizance of that every day. *RESET

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*Here are seven simple suggestions you can follow to try and repair your core family or my suggestions for your RESET:

• Have dinner together as family unit at least five days a week
• Take your children to church or synagogue weekly
• Check your children’s homework nightly
• Demand the truth from your children and get it. Conversely be truthful to them about situations that have direct effects on them, such as the financial situation of the family and that we’ll all have to do some belt tightening.
• Taking your children on vacation for at least one week a year. Even if you can’t afford to go away take them to museums, free public parks or beaches, have a picnic, play with them baseball or something fun like maybe a game of poker with the family, you’d be surprised how inter-personal poker is and how it teaches children a lot about life, interacting in business, bartering or negotiating, etc…..
• Encourage them to get involved in team sports in school, or Police Athletic league (PAL) or even get them to have a startup game with friends(basketball or soccer inexpensive sport). Parents, just supervise the games don’t live vicariously through your children. Most of all don’t praise them if they aren’t doing well in the sport give them constructive criticism and to help them to improve. Remember let’s stop leveling the playing field for children with everything they do there are kids who will be better than them but let them find out where their talent is.
• Try and find a career that will give you more time with the family and financial freedom.

MORE TO COME TOMORROW ON DIFFERENT THOUGHTS…….

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

~ Thomas Paine

America, It Will Take Much More Than Our Daily Wants To Go Forward

If we are to put America back on the right track, restore confidence in our future, restore trust in our institutions and revitalize faith in ourselves it will take more than just satisfying our daily wants. We have to look into ourselves as well as muster up our inner strength and fortitude and recaptor what makes us unique as a nation and what truly needs to get done. Rather then invest in our own selfishness to gain individual wealth, we need to invest in the goodness of our nation and the American people.

I’m going to outline over the next five blogs what I think is  important enough to help Americans start using their creativeness and national pride to restore this nation to its greatness. That is:

I. We  should reset our expectations about life, opportunity, and the American dream

• Home prices are off 15 to 50 percent of what was there value. We expected to fund our children’s college education or even retire from the equity built in these homes. *RESET.
• The price of food, gas and other basic commodities are increasing at an enormous rate, while the dollars value is declining. *RESET.
• Our Federal Government is hell bent on doing things it can accomplish quickly, borrowing from countries that will are trying to bankrupt us in the global economy and the Feds are spending monies like a drunken sailor putting us in deeper and deeper debt. We should have an overseer like Ross Perot to run the government like his successful corporations were. The Congress and Executive Branch of this Government is not looking out for you my fellow Americans they are catering to their own selfish agenda. *RESET —- Sorry for the anger but you should be angry to at the inept leaders we put in power and we have no one to blame but ourselves.

Seemingly in the blink of an eye, our sense of security and all the expectations we had  where each one of us stood financially sound and where our country stood economically solvent is gone.

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*Reset

It’s time we accepted the truth and started fresh. Our economic crisis should force you to some level of reality. You should now more then ever be questioning on a personal level a number of things such as necessary spending vs discretionary spending, trying to pay down your personal debt and trying to save for a rainy day. Belt tightening is the key words. More income is advisable utilizing and balancing your time, this could be accomplished through Business’s like this.

As for the federal government they are long on promises and short on results. The 2010 elections are coming and we should hold the individuals accountable that haven’t followed through on their promises, but when you replace them make sure you make it clear to their replacements you’ll be watching and tracking them.

Please do not mistake this straight talk as pessimism. We need to dream and dreams have a place in our lives but now is the time for reality.

MORE TO COME TOMORROW ON DIFFERENT THOUGHTS