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January 1, 2010
2010
Here's to hoping that 2010 is a better year than 2009, and the X's are better than the zeds, decade wise.
Personally the zeds were a mix of good and bad, mostly bad. Mr. Man and I got engaged and married, which was wonderful, but we had multiple family deaths, serious family illnesses, the death of a childhood friend of mine; our first pet, Klaatu, was diagnosed with FeLV and died a year later and our beloved cat Mutex 2 years later squeezed out a window while we were away at my father in law's funeral and we never got him back. People spotted him - he's a very unique looking boy, a pure bred - and we think someone took him and kept him. A 'lost' family member of mine died, and sweetie broke a bone, 9/11 happened, the market declined, a handiman cheated us and took off. So there's been a bit of loss, disappointment, sadness over the past decade, mingled with the happiness of starting our lives together, with the joy our other boys (cats), have brought us, with the excitement of going back to school.
What the X's bring us (as in the Roman numeral X), I don't know. Anyone who has read this blog knows I worry about the future; I don't want the government making decisions for me and my family about our health, and I want the fruits of our labour to be preserved so we can enjoy them. Mr. Man especially has worked extremely hard and he deserves to enjoy what he has earned. I just want people to leave us alone, so we can live our lives the way we want to. If we're not hurting anyone, if we're just decent, hardworking people (which I think we are), I don't want the government, or anyone else, to control my life. That's not wrong; that's what you come to expect in a free society, but each day it appears the control we have over our own lives is slipping away. That's why I believe this decade will be an important decade in determining the face of this country for the rest of this century.
We can chose the path where we each feel we have a right to exert control over one another's destinies or the path where we allow others to enjoy their own life as they see fit. One path leads back to the principles of our founding, while the other leads to European style socialism, where everyone's life is the business of, and owned by, the rest of the community and individuality is lost. It's clear which one I choose, and I urge everyone to put aside their partisanship and political affiliations and honestly ask themselves a simple question: Do you want someone dictating a large part of your life? Congress changes hands, politicians and bureaucrats come and go. Acknowledging this, do you, personally, want someone in government to tell you what to do? To own your time? To force you to spend your money a certain way, to restrict what you earn, what you can own, what treatments you can get? Do you want some bureaucrat, regardless of party leaning, to be able to punish you if you don't obey some edict?
That's what it comes down to - control. That's what all this legislation is; the framework to control how much we make, what we can spend our money on, what services are available to us. If you can't see that's what cap & tax and healthcare are, you're deluding yourself, and I wish I could help you. If you know that what's really going on is a power play and you're okay with it, then I invite you to live in someplace more socialist, like Europe, and leave America to the rest of us; there's only one of us, and plenty others that follow your ideology. If you know this play for control is for real and it repulses you, but you can't bring yourself to break away from your party allegiance, then I urge you to think about it privately, and thwart these measures with whatever means your courage can muster.
Here's to 2010 being the year where freedom shakes free of its bonds and is renewed.
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Posted by hanyap at January 1, 2010 11:23 AM