PART II

REMINDER AND WARNING: You are reading this to yourself. There is nothing worse than someone that lies to themselves. So when you read this, do an honest and private evaluation of yourself. Open your mind when you read this. We are entitled to our own opinions.
The great confusion is what I like to call it, although “Selective thinking” may be more appropriate. “There is too much Government. They have their fingers in everything we do!” and “The government is inefficient an ineffective because they accomplish nothing.” So which is it? Or do we just place those two thoughts in our back pockets to pull out when the time suits us?
I propose the following statement in place of the two previous…Our Government has become ineffective and inefficient because we as a society have become ineffective and inefficient due to our sense of entitlement.
My son was recently caught smoking a joint at a party. When I talked to him about it, I didn’t scold him or yell at him, I didn’t even condone or suggest any punishments be handed out. What I said to him was the following, “Please ask yourself a question, ‘Why did I want to smoke that joint?’ and when you answer the question, I want you to do it to yourself. Don’t tell me or anyone else why. The only person that needs an answer to that is you. But when you answer it, you need to be honest with yourself. Lying to yourself does no good, because you know it’s a lie.”
The reason I bring this up is because that is what we do to ourselves everyday. We are trying to convince ourselves that this entitlement is rightly so, that we should get maximum reward to minimal effort. Or are we just “Keeping up with the joneses”?
We should all have life
We should all have liberty
We should all be allowed to pursue happiness. Happiness is not something that should be given just because you exist. Happiness is something that we are all responsible for finding for ourselves. I dot owe you a damn thing and you don’t owe me a damn thing. If I need something, it is my responsibility to find a way to get it without depriving anyone of their life or liberty. Sorry if I get in the way of your happiness, as a human I will try my damndest to not interrupt what you need to make you happy, but at the same time, if I don’t look out for myself, who will? But what makes you think that you are owed anything for giving no effort on your part? Do you belong to a “Minority”? Well I ask you, what is a minority today? The other day I was playing one of my online war games. I had 8 people in my squad, one from Australia, one from Germany, one from Russia, one from Israel and another from Iran. The rest of us were Yanks. We were trying to capture a flag from another Squad of 8, Some Canadians, A Mexican, Brit, French and some yanks. Each squad had their own voice program that allowed them to all speak to each other to help in the coordination of the attack. But there was also a “Lobby” area where we could all go after the game to decide what game to play next. The internet has taken this massive planet and turned it into a world no bigger than your 42in HD Monitor. So tell me, what minority are you a part of? And don’t give me the “Well the white man is the minority now!” Bull shit. Those that say that have no clue what the word minority means. The white man is more scrutinized in the world now, but we are not a minority. So to all of us white guys, I say Turn about is fair play. But to all of the others in the world, I say, what do they owe you anyway? Does a 25yr old man owe you something because your great, great, great Grandfather, whom you didn’t even know, was a slave on the railroad? (Answer that to yourself, how were you affected by that?) And yes, I was speaking about the Irish. 
With the internet shrinking the world as it has been, the name of your country has less to do with your government affiliation and ore with your general location on the planet. We are more today becoming a humanist society than in any other time in history. The world felt the pain of our Chinese brothers and Sisters when one man stood defiant in front of a Tank. The world cursed a government that was obviously interfering in their country’s election process. When their citizens rose up to fight, they were shot, beaten and incarcerated. When their citizens broadcast the chaos and oppression on the internet, the web was brought down. But we still watched everyday as streaming video came over cell phones and tweets hit our computers. We are currently sharing the anguish of our brothers and sisters in Haiti. And everyone in the world wants to “Free Tibet”. When the World Trade Centers collapsed, the entire world stopped. People from every country in every nation watched and wept as our brothers and sisters were tragically suffering and dying. The entire world has “Adopted” the state of NY watching ground zero for progress to be made symbolizing that we as a planet can endure anything and will prevail by working together.
But none of this means anything to us. We let our Fore Fathers do the work and we believe that the work they did will carry us through to the end of time. Today, we separate ourselves from everything and everyone. How? African American, Mexican American, European American, French American, Asian American, ect… Now, I have just lost a few readers because I dare to claim that those titles serve no purpose but to divide. I am all about respecting your heritage and honoring your past, but to such a degree that I need to give myself a public title? What happened to being an American?
Oh our past relatives had fights on their hands, they were either oppressed or the oppressor, they physically divided themselves from each other. We watch stories about that every night on TV, read about it in text books and discuss it over family dinners. Most of us would agree that part of our past must be remembered as what NOT to do to your fellow man. After having a long discussion with our children about racism and how horrible it is, we remind them that they are an African American or a European American. So this is kind of like a “Chemical Restraint” that Doctors use on Psych patients versus using a straight Jacket to restrain. Interesting to me, but answer it for yourself. I don’t need convincing and I am not here to convince you, ask my wife, I just like to talk.
Ok my brain is bleeding….I will continue this later.