America Is Blessed!

It seems to me that all the misery that we in America are experiencing is generated by our interpretation of the very influential network evening news programs, Google news, BBC, and other "Main Stream" mass media outlets.

Its all I hear these days, 9% national unemployment, Occupy Wall Street and other similar "Occupations" across America, job robbing low cost Chinese manufacturing, Indian technology workers "stealing" U.S. technology jobs, Mexican drug cartels slaughtering their way to power in the poorest Mexican areas in order to meet drug demand in the U.S, The Arab Spring threatening the stability of the Middle East, and the impending implosion of the Euro-Zone. Man, that is a mouthful of reality now isn't it! Even with all that and then some, try comparing what is happening in our great nation to any other nation in the world.

Most of the world's nations don't allow public assembly for any reason, let alone to gripe about their

government... or any other reason that comes to mind for that matter. Just watch any of the "Occupy Somewhere" chuckle heads on YouTube. Sure some have a clue, but I think most are there to bitch, party, sing, or just plain old get laid. I'd even place a bet that less than a quarter of them voted yesterday.

In this great country, EVERYONE is still FREE TO BELIEVE in whatever or whomever they want to, which was the very reason that America was conceived and created in the first place. Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom to bare arms, and freedom to gather, are among our basic rights in America.

While I know there's a lot of suffering out there, I can't help but think that if people didn't ask for their personal "debt ceiling" to be raised (sound familiar?), the "EVIL" banks wouldn't have granted so many "doomed to fail" loans. Sure the banks are getting the bad wrap on this, but again, and I'm going out on a limb here, no bank or lending institution has EVER loaned ANYTHING to ANYONE who didn't ask for a loan in the first place! How many people actually KNEW they were going to be "in over their heads" and still took the risk?

So just WHO are WE blaming in America? The 1%? The Super Wealthy! The Banks? Congress? The President? Corporate greed? How about if we each just step back and take a deep look in the Mirror of Pity and ask, "How did I create MY personal financial melt down?"

I read a dear friends post today. He was asking for God to Bless America again. I say America is Blessed. People just need to start paying attention to what they NEED versus what they WANT. You WANT a bigger house. You WANT a new car. You WANT a big screen TV and surround sound system. You WANT a new computer. What do you really NEED? What can you really AFFORD? I wonder why 90% of the people in this country still have jobs? Is it because they hold recession proof jobs or is it that they are hard workers? I don't know what the answer is, but I'd start by looking in the mirror.

I'm off the mental soap box now. Thanks for reading another rant!

Campy Out!