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Special Treat – Roger Dean Kiser

February 7, 2008

NO WONDER OUR CHILDREN DO NOT CARE ANYMORE

Roger Dean Kiser

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Maybe it's because I got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, I just don't know. But for some reason, I have my head stuck up my rear-end and everything is sticking in my craw.

Watching a television show last evening, several children were asked what they owed to America. "I owe America nothing" was both their answers. Hearing that answer really upset me, however, the more I think about the words coming out of their mouths, the more I see their point of view.

Why would children think that they owe America anything?

Both parents have to work in order to make ends meet. "Ends" that one day parents, as they get older, will begin to realize it is not really as important as they once thought. The cheap ten year old Chevrolet Station Wagon, which got them to work and to the grocery store, did just as good a job as does the damn Hummer now sitting in their driveway.
The television shows today are nothing but crap and the video games are not far behind. How long is it going to be before cable shows decide to air "Mickey does Minnie?"

The news is full of politicians stealing money, getting caught in sexual situations and living the highlife. We as citizens do nothing except complain and nothing ever changes. A news-alert is nothing more than what a celebrity is wearing or one of their sex videos has hit YouTube. Even REAL NEWS is no longer news. If a story is not exciting enough; the anchors will speculate the damn issue to death. If the killing was done by a male step-child they will speculate (with professional psychologists) if the crime would have been worse if the step-child had been a female, or black, or yellow, or standing on one foot or upside down.

True idols and heroes are a thing of the past. "The Lone Ranger," Roy Rogers and Mr. Smith goes to Washington type shows are laughed at by the children and are looked upon as nothing but corny crap. The value of such shows has been lost somewhere in the galaxy. Sports figures have taken their place and "WE" allow these wonderful American institutions to constantly suck what money we do have left out of us on $500.000 tickets and $50.00 tee shirts; and that includes Mickey Mouse at Disney World also. Meanwhile, in their mansions they fight dogs, impregnate as many women as they can and when they are caught we rally around them and cheer for their release. I can only thank God that Charlie Manson was not a football player.

There are very few heroes in my life. At the top of my list are the brave men who stormed the beaches at Normandy during World War II. Young men, scared to death, yet did their duty to save their country while being machine gunned down by the hundreds. Being a hero is not doing something brave. It is doing something brave when you are scared to death that you might be injured or killed. Someone being paid to do a job that is dangerous is not a being a hero. Crop dusting is one of the most dangerous jobs in America. Without these men and women we might all starve to death. I think that is a very important job, but are they considered heroes just like firemen and policemen? We as adults had best get our priorities straight and teach such values to our children.

The television shows now make our children think that some idiot with tattoos from hairline to toe is something special. That farting and belching in a public mall is the laugh of the day. HEY! Let's put a family car being hit by a train in prime-time, with blood and guts all over the place, and let the kids get a real thrill. Decent television shows with human values have become a thing of the past and it will continue to be so until “WE” as adults force a change.

I think back to when Judge Marion Gooding ran Elvis Presley out of Jacksonville, Florida because he shook his leg while on stage. “This evil man will corrupt our children” stated the judge. Gee, considering the drugs and killings and school shootings; I wonder how many of us wish that evil Elvis Presley was our only problem.

The commercials are nothing more than a con game. They are after our money and nothing more. Yet they try and make us feel that we are unworthy parents if we do not take our children to McDonalds. It doesn't matter that eating that crap, on a daily basis, will have them drop dead in their upper thirties.

The payday loan people were mandated by the U.S. Government to disclose their ridiculous interest rates. Now they come on television telling us that they care about us and want us to borrow responsibly. Their rate in Alaska on a $100.00 two week loan is 519% and in California it is 458%. Now that's caring about us if I have ever seen it. I hate to say it but we have turned into nothing more than a bunch of greedy bastards.

We ship many of our jobs overseas and what do we get in return? Nothing more than poisonous products which will kill and injure our children. We bitch and complain but we still go out and purchase these products. Meanwhile, our own American company's payoff our leaders with automobiles, trips, villas and cash in order to keep their mouths shut and keep these same products from being labeled as dangerous until after the Christmas season is over. Meanwhile, our enemy (China) is building one of the largest most powerful armies in the world. Thanks being given to the millions upon millions of dollars that we Americans are spending at the Dollar Store purchasing Chinese products, with the American name "Matel" stamped on the packaging).

If we were going to allow this to happen, we should have at least had enough sense to send these jobs to Mexico which might have solved two of our major problems. But NO! Mexico did not have enough money to pay American lobbyists to do the evil deed, so China got the upper hand.

How is it we have allowed some 5,000 political idiots, both state and federal, to back almost 300 million of us up against the damn wall?

I won't even go into the war bit, but we as Americans have nothing to fear from the world if we would just stop wearing panties. No one fears us because we have become so politically correct that we are afraid someone might think badly of us.

Alaska allows Kansas to build a ten million dollar museum to honor the donut if Kansas will allow Alaska to have fifteen million dollars to build a bridge to nowhere. Now Mississippi wants to build a seventeen million dollar museum to honor the American Prison system. Jesus Christ! This is the United States of America not the United State of Alaska or the United State of Kansas or Mississippi. Our politicians have forgotten that this is the "United States of America." It is the WHOLE that is important and not the parts. If we do not take care of the heart, and it stops, the hands will also be dead.
Nothing is ever going to change unless we get these idiots out of Washington D.C. That goes for the greedy politicians as well as the lobbyists, and big corporate money.

We are headed for big trouble and when the gates lock behinds us it will be too late.
Our children have no respect for anything anymore, and why should they?