Many of us, including me, did have a good 2010 and managed
to make do with less income, but 2010 was not the best for
many. We all need to look forward to 2011 with hope.
Hope that hungry and homeless numbers will diminish. It is
difficult to comprehend our open-door policy that allows all
those who wish to enter to have jobs, education and government
subsidies, while many of our countrymen are in dire need. Those
non-citizens who enter our country should have to pay their
own way; buy their own food, clothing and housing, seek and
pay for needed medical care.
Hope
that many of the unemployed will find jobs. It is so hard
to understand why our country’s major businesses continue
to send so many jobs overseas. I have expressed this conviction
in the past and still firmly believe we need to first look
out for our own country’s needs and cease miring
ourselves in the problems of others. We should realize
we are not the
only country with power, and our solutions are not always
welcome. For years we have been doing all we can to help
those in other
countries while giving away what we have spent years achieving.
We will not maintain our title as the richest country in
the world if we continue to send our riches around the
world. We
should return to living with what our country produces
and scale back on imports.
Our
constant fear of terrorism is fed by those who benefit the
most and send our troops to the far reaches of the
world. If we are going to pay troops to keep us safe
and protect
our welfare, why not keep them home to patrol our borders.
In addition,
if we stop sending jobs to Mexico and place a strong
guard on our border there, wouldn’t the people of Mexico
step forward and take action to stop some of their problems?
If we stop supporting others needs and let them take
care of their own, perhaps in a short time we could return
to a time when anyone who wanted a job could get one; when
all that was needed was a willingness to work.
It
is my hope our education systems can be helped. Why can’t
we make a college education available to all our
young people who desire it? We could pay for it with funds
we send around
the world to help others enter our country and fill
our institutes of higher education, where we could
teach
skills that would
provide our youth with more opportunities. If we
are
going to give funds away, why not give them to our
citizens?
Many of those who come to our country want to change it; our
language, religious beliefs even the way we dress. It just
seems that those who want things the way they had them in their
country should return to it. If they want to blow up buildings
and kill themselves for their beliefs, they should do so in
their own countries and leave us to our peaceful endeavors.
Most of our citizens love this country and would not ever want
to change it or harm it in any way.
We all must hope for signs of world peace, yet we continue
to commit our resources and beloved troops to foreign conflicts.
As I see it, how can peace be achieved if conflicts are supported?