Political Conventions

Here we are in September. The weather in Minnesota has cooled off and I am loving it. But with the cooler weather has come the heating up in the political arena. I have to admit, I did not watch the DNC with much diligence, just caught bits and pieces of it. I did however watch the RNC with a bit more interest. I am a true conservative in my thinking. I want big government off my back. I want to have control of more of my money. I don't WANT the government taking care of me. I want to be FREE!!!! Because you see as one politician once said "What the government gives, the government can take away". Then what? We will be like the Russians when communism fell in their country, they had no idea how to act. How to be industrious, how to take care of themselves. They had lost the desire to do better. For lack of another word, they had become lazy.

I grew up VERY poor on a farm in ND. Gil grew up very poor in northern Minnesota. Yet planted inside each of us was the knowledge that if we wanted better, we could have it. I don't blame either of our parents for where they were. They did the best they could with what they had and both of our parents gave us so much love. Maybe that love was the driving force that made us know that we could do better, we could rise above. Although I am not rich by any stretch of the imagination, I want for nothing. I can remember as a little girl wanting to have a whole banana and being told, I had to share one with my sister as mom didn't have enough money to buy us one each. Also I remember wanting a small bag of chocolate covered peanuts and being told no, there is no money for that. I remember thinking to myself, and I was not very old, maybe around 9 or 10 "When I grow up, I will work hard and no one will tell me I cant have something I want". Maybe that is the problem with the children of us "baby boomers" they grew up in an affluent society where so much was handed to them and they now feel they are entitled to what they want, thus they are looking to the government to give them their wants... NO!!!! NO!!!! NO!!!! That will not give you freedom. That will only make you a slave to your government.

The fact that our national debt is so stupendous ,that we cant even begin to imagine the atrocity of it, saddens my heart. Unless something is done to bring our national budget into balance my grandchildren will not know the USA that I knew. Will it hurt to bring a balanced budget to our country. You bet!!! You know in your own lives when you are forced to live on a budget there are things you canNOT have unless you put extra work and earn more for it. Same with our national budget. We need to elect officials and especially a president that will not be afraid to use the veto. Is it easy to tell our kids no when we are on a budget? No it isn't, and it wont be easy for our president and congress to tell the people of this nation "No" to more spending, espeicaly to those who they have been giving entitlements to . But it has to be done.

I guess I am writing here because I am so frustrated. I have friends that are liberal minded and they cant seem to see that making a bigger government is not going to balance our budget. It will only be a bigger burden on our backs. I try so hard to see it from their point of view, but I just cant seem to wrap my mind around it. Maybe that is why politics is something that should never be discussed with friends??? I don't know.

Anyway, I best quit for this time.

Blessings
Sandi