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Monday, March 16, 2009

Talk About Hitting The Nail On The Head

"Really. I can tell you where the outrage is. The outrage is here, in this middle-aged, well-educated, upper-middle class woman. The outrage is here, but I have no representation, no voice. The outrage is here, but no one is listening for who am I?

I am not a billionaire like George Soros that can fund an entire political movement.

I am not a celebrity like Barbra Streisand that can garner the attention of the press to promote political candidates.

I am not a film maker like Michael Moore or Al Gore that can deliver misleading movies to the public.

The outrage is here, but unlike those with money or power, I don't know how to reach those who feel similarly in order to effect change.

Why am I outraged? I am outraged that my country, the United States of America , is in a state of moral and ethical decline. There is no right or wrong anymore, just what's fair.

Is it fair that millions of Americans who overreached and borrowed more than they could afford are now being bailed out by the government and lending institutions to stave off foreclosure? Why shouldn't these people be made to pay the consequences for their poor judgment?

When my husband and I purchased our home, we were careful to purchase only what we could afford. Believe me, there are much larger, much nicer homes that I would have loved to have purchased. But, taking responsibility for my behavior and my life, I went with the house that we could afford, not the house that we could not afford. The notion of personal responsibility has all but died in our country.

I am outraged, that the country that welcomed my mother as an immigrant from Hitler's Nazi Germany and required that she and her family learn English now allows itself to be overrun with illegal immigrants and worse, caters to those illegal immigrants.

I am outraged that my hard-earned taxes help support those here illegally. That the Los Angeles Public School District is in such disarray that I felt it incumbent to send my child to private school, that every time I go to the ATM, I see "do you want to continue in English or Spanish?", that every time
I call the bank, the phone company, or similar business, I hear "press 1 for English or press 2 for Spanish". WHY? This is America , our common language is English and attempts to promote a bi- or multi-lingual society are sure to fail and to marginalize those who cannot communicate in English.

I am outraged at our country's weakness in the face of new threats on American traditions from Muslims. Just this week, Tyson's Food negotiated with its union to permit Muslims to have Eid-al-Fitr as a holiday instead of Labor Day. What am I missing? Yes, there is a large Somali Muslim population working at the Tyson's plant in Tennessee. Tennessee, last I checked, is still part of the United States. If Muslims want to live and work here, they should be required to live and work by our American Laws and not impose their will on our long history.

In the same week, Random House announced that they had indefinitely delayed the publication of The Jewel of Medina, by Sherry Jones, a book about the life of Mohammed's wife, Aisha, due to fear of retribution and violence by Muslims. When did we become a nation ruled by fear of what other immigrant groups want? It makes me so sad to see large corporations cave rather than stand proudly on the principles that built this country...

I am outraged because appeasement has never worked as a political policy, yet appeasing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is exactly what we are trying to do. An excellent article, also published recently in the Wall Street Journal, went through over 20 years of history and why talking with Iran has been and will continue to be ineffective. Yet talk, with a madman no less, we continue to do. Have we so lost our moral compass and its ability to detect evil that we will not go in and destroy Iran's nuclear program? Would we rather wait for another Holocaust for the Jews - one which they would be unlikely to survive? When does it end?

As if the battle for good and evil isn't enough, now come the Environmentalists who are so afraid of global warming that they want to put a Bag tax on grocery bags in California; to eliminate Mylar balloons; to establish something as insidious as the recycle police in San Francisco. I do my share for the environment: I recycle, I use water wisely, I installed an energy efficient air conditioning unit. But when and where does the lunacy stop? Ahmadinejad wants to wipe Israel off the map, the California economy is being overrun by illegal immigrants, and the United States of
America no longer knows right from wrong, good from evil. So what does California do? Tax grocery bags.

So, America , although I can tell you where the outrage is, this one middle-aged, well-educated, upper middle class woman is powerless to do anything about it. I don't even feel like my vote counts because I am so outnumbered by those who disagree with me."

Alisa Wilson, Ph.D. Beverly Hills, California.

6 comments:

Reconciled1 said...

well put...

L Caruso said...

I couldn't agree more! Thank you for posting this.

Anonymous said...

I agree with a lot of this, but not everyone losing their home overreached, lady.

My brother (one of those NOT UPPER middle income people, but more LOWER middle income) lost his job 7 months ago, along with many others at his company.

He has put out hundreds of resumes, taken every odd job he can find, sometimes two and three at a time, and he's on the brink of losing his after the his wife's med bills ate up their savings.

He's not expecting anything from anybody, but I'll be damned if he's going to get lumped in as somebody who spent foolishly on his home.

Anonymous said...

9:47, Your right there are a lot of hard working middle class Americans that are about to lose their homes because the rug was pulled out from under them. They didnt over spend on their homes the work simply went away. Once the refinancing is gone and the credit cards are maxed there is know where else to turn, your homeless with a family and all you did was play by the rules. There will be a lot of this in the near future. No-one cares about us, to the goverment there is rich and poor, they dont want to see the people stuck in the middle.

emo said...

I reposted this letter to my FB. A friend of mine had an opinion. Here is what he said....

"Outrage? This woman claims to be white, upper-middle class, and well-educated. She also holds a PhD and lives in Beverly Hills, so anyone can see why she's so angry. How someone accomplishes so much while learning so little about the world around her is difficult to understand: Her writing promotes ignorance, fear-mongering, exclusion, and prejudice. This piece also has numerous grammar and punctuation problems, as well as one giant error in her manufactured outrage: her lack of representation. Last I checked, Congress was still overwhelmingly rich, white, and reactionary, skilled mostly in spouting nonsense and placing the blame for this country's problems at the feet of everyone else. Sounds to me like this lady is better represented than she thinks..."

His liberal attitude makes me sick. Do liberals see what the author is saying at all????? Or can they not even see past their bleeding hearts????? Somehow the victim in this post has become the antagonist in liberal eyes. WTH???? Its no wonder politicians drink so much. I would go crazy working with people with such polar-opposite points of view.

Anonymous said...

" HEAR MY VOICE, O ISRAEL "


# 1... What is going to happen to America?...

> Read " Deuteronomy 28:15-68 "...

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# 2... Why is it happenning?...

> GOD is angry with his people (Israel)

> They have forgotten the 3 most important days of GOD, transgressed against him & his laws, sinned against him, and

forgotten to obey his commandments ...

> 1) The Sabbath - 2) The Passover - 3) All the Holy Days of GOD and his seasons...

> Sabbath - breaking is a prime reason for the anger of GOD - " Nehemiah 13:18 "

> 1) The Sabbath has been replaced by Sunday (LOOK IT UP-CHECK IT OUT-SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH-"1st Thessalonians 5:21 KJV"- "PROVE ALL THINGS" {Constatine & the Catholic Church}) 2) The Passover has been replaced by Easter-A PAGAN God & HOLIDAY- 3) All the Holy Days of GOD have been replaced by Chritmas,Halloween,etc.,ALL PAGAN !

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# 3... Who is Israel?...

> " 2nd Kings 17:34 "... Jacob's name changed to "Israel" by GOD

> Israel (Jacob) had 12 sons

> One son, Joseph, had 2 sons Ephraim (England) and Маnasseh (America)

> " Let my name be named on them " (Ephraim & Manasseh) " Genesis 48:16 "

> America is Israel ! (As well as England)

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# 4... When did all these problems begin?...

> "1982"

> Read " Daniel 4:20-23 "...

> The tree symbolizes BABYLON, and was cut down & iron and brass were strapped to the stump

> Iron and brass symbolize the stop of growth until times of the end

> Iron also symbolizes Rome (the Republican form of government)

> The brass or bronze symbolizes Greece (the Democratic form of government)

> We,at this time, have lost our Republic

> Punishment = 7 years for Nebuchadnezzar, also 7 X 360 = 2520 years until the iron & brass are removed so that

BABYLON will again rise

> 360 days = 1 year for 1 day

> 2520 + 539 BC = "1981"

> " 1981 + 1 year (1 for the year "0"), = "1982"


" WARN THE PEOPLE "
" WARN ISRAEL "