The Declaration of Independence is a great document. In it are great words to live by. It was written by great people living in very difficult times. 235 odd years later, we are still living in very difficult times. However I do not believe that this country is being run by great people any longer. I do believe the founding fathers of this country had great insight, and perhaps could even foresee some of today's problems. The Declaration of Independence states that at times it is proper to dissolve a broken government and start over. I believe that time has come . . . . .
Politics in America
.....and how to fix it.By Chris RiceAuthorHouse
Copyright © 2010 Chris Rice
All right reserved.ISBN: 978-1-4490-9936-7Contents
1. About Me....................................................12. The Democrats...............................................133. The Republicans.............................................194. The News Media..............................................255. Illegal Immigration and Race Relations......................276. States Rights...............................................337. Social Security.............................................378. Crime.......................................................419. Creating Jobs...............................................4710 If I were the President.....................................5311. Foreign Policy.............................................6512. Ramblings and Rants........................................73
Chapter One
About Me.
To be a true Southerner, one does not necessarily have to be born in the Deep South or even in the South at all. To be a true Southern Gentleman, a man needs to be respectful of others, especially to women, children, and their elders. Respect is never given to anyone. It has to be earned. But once earned, it takes something colossal to be taken away from someone.
There is a huge difference in being respectful to someone, and having respect for someone.
They must be courageous, proud of who they are, and very proud of their Country and their home State. You must be tolerant of others, especially those who do not agree with you.
You have to carry yourself proudly, but not be arrogant. Like I said you don't have to be born in the South to have these traits, but it seems like it sure does help. But of course, I was born in the Deep South, and I am very proud of that fact, and even more so, by saying I was born in the Great State of Georgia, in the year of 1963.
Calling me a gentleman may be one of the biggest over statements of all time. By the way, I'm guessing you could get fairly long odds on that in Vegas.
Being a Southerner anymore is simply a state of mind, and life can be hard for us. It's inside your mind, and it's in your heart, and it's in your deepest soul. To be a Southern White Man at this time in history is even harder. We have the least amount of rights of anyone in this country. Every other person, of every other color gets preference ahead of us. I can't speak for every other white man in America, but I have never owned any slaves. But it does seem like I am the one paying for white people owning slaves 150 plus years ago. I was not even around when slavery was legal, and I'm pretty sure no one else is either.
We have been typecast as being backwards, clumsy, awkward, and very uneducated, and if you believe the media and the Democrats, very racist. At times, 1963 yes this has been the case for some, but for the most part very untrue. Another thing a lot of people seem to forget, a lot of things people call racist was legal back then. I'm not saying right or wrong, I'm saying it was not illegal for people, schools, restaurants, and a lot of other places to be segregated.
Changes like that have to come slowly for some people. If a person owned their own business and wanted to limit it to only white people or to only black people, I don't really care. People it's 2010, not 1963!
Let's take me as an example. I'm 47, White, decent house with a mortgage, truck and a car, divorced, grandfather, full head of hair, decent job. I make pretty good money, around 100k a year, and I have a little money in the bank, around 50,000 dollars. Not rich by today's standard of rich by any means, but very well off if you don't have any of the things I mentioned. There were many years I did not have them either.
People from the South seem to be very firm in their beliefs, whatever they may be. I know I am. Things such as politics, we tend to be very Republican or very Democrat. I happen to know people who I call friends of both persuasions.
I am not a smart person by anyone's standard. I did not even finish high school. I dropped out because I knew I was not a college type person, and my living arrangements were not geared for me going to college. But for the most important reason's, I was not smart enough and I did not care and or know enough to even want to go to college. A paycheck beat the hell out of a report card.
I learned very early in life that Kroger would cash a paycheck, but not a report card.
Depending on what part of my life you wanted to put under a microscope, 0-10 or 10-18 or 18-23 or 23-29- or 29-40 or 40-47 those are just kind of milestones years for me. But it would depend which set of years you look at as to what kind of person that you would think I was.
If you took 0-10 years old, you would be talking about the kid from a very disjointed family. My parents divorced when I was a little past 1 year old. My father had received custody of my brother and myself. My brother was about 3 when they divorced.
The story I have always heard was that my mother gave up custody of us for a new car.
My father worked construction for a living. That means doing a lot of traveling. Well anyway he was on a job, staying at a boardinghouse and he met the woman who was running it. She had 4 kids from 2 different men. They decide to basically become the Brady Bunch way before they ever decided to have a television show about them. So now I am the youngest of 6 kids, I now have 2 older step-brothers and 2 older step-sisters. I caught a lot of crap from them, and I had a lot of hand-me-downs.
Of course this was not your average fairy tale, even though something I think all we could agree on was the fact that we all had, and hated the evil mother/step-mother. Even her kids didn't like her. She was mean to all of us, but I do think my brother and I took the worst of it. There's no point in getting into the many beatings we all took, many for the slightest of transgressions. How bad can a 6 year old be? I'll put it this way, I was in the first grade, and I only missed 1 day of school that year. It was because I had a cut above my eye from getting backhanded across the room for not taking the clothes out of the washing machine and putting them in the dryer fast enough. Back then kids had chores before and after school.
Then I was 10 years old and my life changed again. 2 1/2 weeks before my 11th birthday my father died in a car wreck coming home from work. That's a tough one for a 10 year old boy. My dad was a pretty good guy. He did drink a lot, but he never hit or abused any of us.
Now getting older myself and working construction also, I can understand why he drank. Between construction work and the evil bitch that he married. He was even good to the step-brothers and stepsisters. We all used to go hunting and fishing and camping a lot. The oldest step-brother was 16 almost 17 when my dad died.
But when he had turned 16, my dad had gotten him a car, not new but a decent Mustang. The next oldest step-brother had gotten a small motorcycle a year or two earlier. My dad dying was hard on all of us kids.
My Grandfather who had already had 1 heart attack was threatened by my step-mother, that if he didn't turn over a life insurance policy worth 40,000 dollars to her that she was going to drop my brother and I off on their doorstep that very day. It was a policy that my dad had set aside for my brother and myself for when we turned 18 we...
