WE CAN NEVER GO BACK TO BEFORE

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WE CAN NEVER GO BACK TO BEFORE…

“There was time
Our happiness seemed never ending.
I was so sure
That where we were heading was right.
Life was a road,
So straight and secure and unbending.”
From the musical “Ragtime”


Why are we so afraid?

As a nation we seem to have lost our confidence. We are afraid of uneducated immigrants coming to this country. We are afraid of losing our culture and our language. We are afraid for our economy. We are afraid for our jobs. We are afraid of the costs that are on the horizon for Medicare and Social Security. We are afraid of terrorists.

Why did we become a nation of cowards? When did we start lettting fear dominate our lives? Why did we let confidence cease being the driving force of this nation? How did we decide that government action was the source of our salvation regarding illegal immigration? Why did we decide that market capitalism isn’t the best economic system and that it will not ultimately reassert itself as the dominant economic system? Why did we decide that the problems that face us are greater than the opportunities afforded us?

Let us welcome legal immigrants. We will win because they are leaving poverty and destitution risking everything to reach the beacon of hope and opportunity. They may not speak English…but their children and grandchildren will.

Let us embrace outsourcing because we are outsourcing capitalism and democracy and they will both continue to be in-sourced in return.

The problems that we face are monumental but our ability to deal with them and solve them, make them challenges not crises. When we go to bed tonight we will be facing all of these challenges. Let us wake up and embrace the challenges we face because when we wake tomorrow we will still have the intellect, resources and determination to make it once again, “Morning in America.”



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