I realized after watching another movie that I had fulfilled a life long dream without even knowing it. I had become a modern day musketeer without even realizing. I'm not trying to "toot" my own horn or anything but rather through my realization maybe help others realize that they too have fulfilled their own dreams without realizing.
After watching another stupid movie I realized that the things that I once idolized in movies of the past I am now a part of. I have sought jobs throughout my life that have helped me find honor, passion, love, protection of the weak or desperate. Some would classify this as a hero complex and I think your right. But seriously how bad is that really? Is it bad to want to help someone out on their worst day. Someone calls when they are having a bad day and we come to solve their problems.
These seem to be the same things that we idolize in the movies about the stories of old. Knights of the round table, the Three Musketeers, and other movies like this have inspired us to be better people throughout our lives but I move that there are a lot of you that have achieved your once idolized positions if you should think about it a little. So tell me about it, how did you achieve your dream?
I know this isn't a typical blog for me but I thought it'd be fun! And isnt' this supposed to be about what's on my mind? So let me know what you think!
Monday, April 26, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Tragedy....
So this morning I heard a song by Eddie Money on one of the morning shows. It was about a soldier who was returning from the war in a box. I thought it was ironic because there I was listening to this song about a man/woman who was willing to die for his country while reading about more Obama-care tax related information. I thought it was ironic to read about a president who seems to be turning our medical system into a more communistic "everyones equal" type of system. Like I have said previously as one of the most wealthy countries in the world we DO have a bit of a responsibility to help those that are less fortunate but not at the expense of OUR OWN county.
I recently talked to one of my cousins in Washington state who told me about a bill that was recently passed to help the children of illegal aliens pay for school related expenses. Meanwhile the finiancial responsibility of my cousins children remains solely with her and her husband. Does this really make sense to anyone? I mean as I've said before I'm just a blue collar guy with a limited amount of education so let me break this down to how it sounds to me. We (the tax paying LEGAL citizens of this great country) are now being shouldered with the financial burden of someone elses children who LEGALLY speaking should be deported? A citizen who isn't paying the necessary taxes that keep the programs that are so great funded. I know that somewhere in one of these cathartic rantings I have mentioned that in California alone over 70% of all the people that are housed in our prision system are illegal aliens. To the tune of 80k a prisoner the dollar figure ads up quickly! So why aren't we doing something more with this? We continue to worry that everyone needs healthcare when if we took a closer look how many United States CITIZENS would actually be without healthcare insurance? Then out of those people how many would be covered under existing programs that are overtaxed (no pun intended!) by use from so many illegals? I move that the programs that are currently in existence would be completely adequate if they were used only by US citizens and not the hundreds of thousands of illegals.
You know I started this rant by mentioning how sad it was to read something so completely opposite of what would seem to be the simple ideologies of this great nation. All this while seeing someone sang of the return of a dead soldier. What made my head spin is what would our forefathers think? They knew they weren't all knowing so they wrote things that we could follow but were not bound to. They knew things would change so they made it changable. What would they think of a government who is basically doing their bidding while the population stood apart and questioned WHY!? I feel like they would be disapointed in a system that seems to be failing at the moment. It's frustrating when our great nations people seem to have better ideas that our own government meanwhile they push issues through blindly.
So here I am saying what's next? What are we going to have to watch pass next as we sit here and say nothing? Sometimes I wish that I didn't love my job so I could run in the next election for something in the state at least. So thusly I illustrate the great debate and struggle. One citizen willing to get involved but perhaps NOT willing to make the sacrifice necessary.
A quick shout out to DCHawk and my partner!
I recently talked to one of my cousins in Washington state who told me about a bill that was recently passed to help the children of illegal aliens pay for school related expenses. Meanwhile the finiancial responsibility of my cousins children remains solely with her and her husband. Does this really make sense to anyone? I mean as I've said before I'm just a blue collar guy with a limited amount of education so let me break this down to how it sounds to me. We (the tax paying LEGAL citizens of this great country) are now being shouldered with the financial burden of someone elses children who LEGALLY speaking should be deported? A citizen who isn't paying the necessary taxes that keep the programs that are so great funded. I know that somewhere in one of these cathartic rantings I have mentioned that in California alone over 70% of all the people that are housed in our prision system are illegal aliens. To the tune of 80k a prisoner the dollar figure ads up quickly! So why aren't we doing something more with this? We continue to worry that everyone needs healthcare when if we took a closer look how many United States CITIZENS would actually be without healthcare insurance? Then out of those people how many would be covered under existing programs that are overtaxed (no pun intended!) by use from so many illegals? I move that the programs that are currently in existence would be completely adequate if they were used only by US citizens and not the hundreds of thousands of illegals.
You know I started this rant by mentioning how sad it was to read something so completely opposite of what would seem to be the simple ideologies of this great nation. All this while seeing someone sang of the return of a dead soldier. What made my head spin is what would our forefathers think? They knew they weren't all knowing so they wrote things that we could follow but were not bound to. They knew things would change so they made it changable. What would they think of a government who is basically doing their bidding while the population stood apart and questioned WHY!? I feel like they would be disapointed in a system that seems to be failing at the moment. It's frustrating when our great nations people seem to have better ideas that our own government meanwhile they push issues through blindly.
So here I am saying what's next? What are we going to have to watch pass next as we sit here and say nothing? Sometimes I wish that I didn't love my job so I could run in the next election for something in the state at least. So thusly I illustrate the great debate and struggle. One citizen willing to get involved but perhaps NOT willing to make the sacrifice necessary.
A quick shout out to DCHawk and my partner!
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