God has truly blessed me. Just being born in the United States is a blessing, IMO. I was also blessed with upper-middle class parents that gave me a good childhood and taught me important ideals and values. I worked hard and continued to be blessed here in America – first paper route at 12, first fast food job at 15, army at 18, college at 21, engineering degree with honors, recruited to San Diego by major corporation – yep, the harder I worked the more I was blessed.
A few years ago I found myself blessed with lots of paper equity in southern CA real estate and I set out on a path of education. I had never had any significant assets before and I didn’t want to screw it up.
The more I learned the more outraged I became at the elitist controlled world of fiat money. I learned that wars are created by the banking cartel because it is good for their business – they get to finance both sides during the war and then they get to finance the reconstruction of the damage done during the war. These wars are also useful to the government of a country in decline because the citizens can be distracted by the war. Economic meltdowns can be hidden behind war fervor. Read “The Creature from Jekyll Island” – it sheds light on how the US Federal Reserve came into being and how the US banking system was created and continues to be controlled by European interests. Numerous examples are provided of how the banking cartel has financed both factions in a war. And don’t forget that the equity markets were in a significant downtrend BEFORE 9/11.
I’m about as patriotic as they come. I can rarely sing either the National Anthem or God Bless America without a lump rising in my throat.
Through my learning, I realized that the lump in my throat was not for the America that I was living in today, but for the America that I envisioned in my mind and loved in my heart. It was the America that you are talking about in your post.
The ‘lump in the throat’ America, IMO, has been lost over the last few decades.
The last six years in particular have marked numerous erosions of America’s one-time glory.
The US Constitution has been blatantly ignored on several occasions by “the decider”.
America started a war of aggression by the United Nation’s own definition of “aggressive warfare”. This war was not approved by the UN Security Council and now many questions are being raised about how and why America started the war.
Numerous examples of fraud and corruption have come to light in both industry and government.
Government statistics have become a joke to all economists who aren’t in somebody’s pocket. I’m not sure which is worse, being lied to, or having them think that we are stupid enough to be lied to and believe it.
Anyway, I consider myself to be very patriotic. The “anti-American sentiment” that you detect in my writing (your labelling, not mine) is my frustration and anger over the rapid downhill slide that I see my country on. The excellent system of American government that was given to us by our forefathers has been perverted to today’s system of government which is for the benefit of corporate interests and not the American citizens.
