What Has America Become?

A small town MICHIGAN NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL:
Small town newspaper letter to the editor hits nail on the head . . . priceless!

Editor,

Has America become the land of the special interest and the home of the double standard?

Let's see: if we lie to Congress, it's a felony and if congress lies to us it's just politics; if we dislike a black person, we're racist and if a black person dislikes whites, it's their 1st amendment rights; the government spends millions to rehabilitate criminals and do almost nothing for victims; in public schools you can teach that homosexuality is OK, but you better not use the word God in the process; you can kill an unborn child, but it's wrong to execute a mass murderer; we don't burn books in America, we rewrite them; we got rid of the communism and socialist threat by renaming them progressives; we are unable to close our border with Mexico, but have no problem protecting the 38th parallel in Korea; if you protest against President Obama's policies you're a terrorist, but if you burned an American flag or George Bush in effigy it was your 1st amendment right.

You can have pornography on TV or the Internet, but you better not put a nativity scene in a public park [or square] during Christmas; we have eliminated all criminals in America, they are now called sick people; we can use a human fetus for medical research, but it's wrong to use an animal.

We take money from those who work hard for it and give it to those who don't want to work; we all support the Constitution, but only when it supports our political ideology; we still have freedom of speech, but only if we are being politically correct; parenting has been replaced with Ritalin and video games; the land of opportunity is now the land of hand outs; the similarity between Hurricane Katrina and the gulf oil spill is that neither president did anything to help.

And how do we handle a major crisis today? The government appoints a committee to determine who's at fault, then threatens them, passes a law, raises our taxes; tells us the problem is solved sit they can get back to their reelection campaign.

What has happened to the land of the free and home of the brave?

Ken Huber
Tawas City

Where Is Tawas City, MI? It is on Lake Huron and has a population of just over 2,000!!