Today is FLAG Day!  Looking around I see very few flags flying.  Wonder why that is?  Could it be that folks just don't know?  To be truthful, I hadn't realized it until I got up and walked into the living room to Fox's morning show and they were talking about how flags were made.

So I immediately took our flag (I keep it by the front door) went outside and put it in the holder I made for it.  It is a beautiful day here in Rutherford, TN.  The sun is shining.  The breeze is light.  The farmers are in their fields, working away.  

What a wonderful day to enjoy what God has blessed us with.  A country that we can share our thoughts with others freely.  A country that rewards those that work hard, study hard, stay focused, and contribute to society in a positive way, with the opportunity to make something of themselves.  Sometimes during the process, it doesn't seem that way, but for me, it worked well.  Unfortunately, lately it seems more and more difficult to accomplish, but with constant prayer, keeping a positive spirit about you, and think things through on what is best for you and your family to survive without depending on others (i.e. government programs) to support you until death, you will do alright.  With proper schooling, focus, and hard work, in America, there has been established a system that we can all live together in a condition of peace and harmony with our neighbors, both close and far, each contributing to the over all picture of happiness and wellness.  

In any society there are those that are incapable of surviving on their own, through physical disability or mental challenges.  THOSE are the ones society is to be taking care of as a joint project, through local programs that help them with their challenges to live a reasonable life with food, medical support, and  decent (non-slum) housing to live in.  There seems to be more and more folks that have cheated the system and through untruth and outright deceit and gotten into the system to be taken care of by the rest of us.  These folks are neither mentally or physically challenged.  What they are is LAZY!  They are very capable of being employed in some fashion or another.  Of course, I suppose that excludes those that have gone a step further and have been involved with breaking laws (other laws than the social helps rules of course).  This is a country that has over the past 15-20 years has been sliding into a dangerous position of "the few, supporting the many" of which a good share of "the many" could be holding down jobs to support themselves.  That is where we are at.  

What makes it worse is the way that our government management has allowed the system to fall into disrepair because of socialistic values of BIG Government will take care of you.  That does not mean, the honest workers that are supporting the government through taxes, or even the hundreds of thousands of government employees that put in an honest days work, day in and day out, through the years, being honorable employees not abusing the system.  Of course we have all seen the shenanigans that makes the headlines of horrible abuse in some areas.  They should be taken to the wood shed and straightened out, for sure.  I think it is a management problem we have here that feels they are beyond the reach of common sense and have gone over the edge of efficient management and into the realm of government obesity!  Shame on them!  They need to be identified and punished.  Abuse of any system requires punishment of those that have allowed it to happen...whether elected, or appointed.  Shame!

Our system of government is the best in the world.  It has brought us to the best country in history with, for many years, the highest moral values and industrial growth!  Then the values started to erode into what we have today.  Fortunately there is still time to save ourselves. It will require a shift in values for some.  It will require some hard decisions to be made by those we actually vote for doing what they were elected to do, not to get ultra rich from special interest temptations.  It will take courage to change the way government "does business" at the Washington D.C. level.  That is a big hill to climb.

Until we start to see the results, we as the common sense Americans,  must continue to work toward the  goal of being resourceful, enthusiastic, God loving, citizens that are proud of our Country, working to regain our values of the past and work toward correcting the challenges of the present and the future.  We need to continually remind others of the great country we had, and will have again.  One of those ways are to fly the Flag that says: "Here we are.  Come and join with us to make the country that this flag represents to be the place where freedom still rings."  That people work together, so that we can show the world that the United States of America is a country of freedom, and with liberty for ALL.

God Bless America on this Flag Day.

Keep singing, keep praying, keep smiling

Blessings,

Gary