Tired of Being Marginalized? Don't Just Talk ... DO!

We all sit around over coffee or a beer talking about the injustices we see everyday. "This is unfair", "that's just not right", "I'm tired of being stepped on" ... you know the discussions. Well, here's something you can do to at least let people know how disgusted you are with what's going on in this country and maybe, just maybe, you can help change things. After all, we can all complain, but we need to actually do something if we're ever going to change things for the better. Again, this is a chance to do something (something really easy) that can help change things.

First, go to this site and read the article :

http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/beck_obama_boycott_fox/2009/08/13/247700.html?s=al&promo_code=856C-1

If you are as outraged as I am about a small minority controlling what a vast majority sees, hears and does, then DO this:

1. at the end of the article, there is contact information for both GEICO and Progressive Insurance. Contact them by email and by phone to express your concern that they buckled to pressure from a very small pressure group that convinced them to make a political, not business, decision. Let these companies know that you will never buy their products and you will let others know exactly how they let politics rule their business. At the end of the day, what these people are really saying to you as an American is that your political opinions are not as important as those of some obscure special interest group. You only need one or two sentences to make the point, it will only take you a few moments and it might actually make a difference. Again, email AND call ... two points of contact instead of one.

2. pass this information on to your friends. Just send the address for this blog or a copy of the actual article with your request for action. If everybody who reads this gets just one other person to act, we can get a lot of traction at the end of the day. There is strength in numbers.

3. if you are a customer of one of these companies, as I am, consider switching your business and let them know, in a letter to their CEO, why you did it. Yes, I know that they won't miss my business but if they loose a few hundred or better yet a few thousand customers, they will get the message. Also, I know this is an extreme step and it's not for everyone but then again, what's happening to our country is quite extreme. I have been accused at times of having a "big mouth". Could be, but I do put my money where my mouth is.

The special interest groups putting pressure on business to help squelch our freedom of speech are doing something that is perfectly legal. The same people that want to remove our freedoms are using those same freedoms to stifle us. They can do this because this is America. That does not, however, mean that you need to lay down while being kicked in the teeth. Fight back ... you have the right to!

Yes We Can! and Got Hope?

Yes We Can! Today, Rasmussen reported that Obama's overall approval rating dropped to 47% Even more liberal commentators, politicians and journalists are calling people who's opinion disagrees with the White House line such choice names as Nazis, hate mongerers (I'm not even sure if that's a real word but hey, if "journalists" use it, it must be a word ...), Ku Klux Klansmen, blah, blah, blah. This is real desperation! Chris Matthews was absolutely apoplectic on a recent show. There's a panic report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (should be called the Southern Poverty Law Far Left) that there has been a huge increase in the number of "right wing" militias, although they don't seem to have too much proof of this.

All of this vitriol is being spewed because everyday Americans (in droves) have the audacity to speak out against their government. You'll have to excuse me if I think that political dissent is about as American as you can get. Destroy a city in a riot? Why, you were just expressing your frustration at being oppressed. Tie up a city with war protests, foul mouthed chanting and "peaceful resistance"? You were just exercising your right to free speech. Speak up at a Town Hall Meeting? You're clearly a Nazi. In fact, looking at all of these Town Hall Meeting videos that are floating around, I don't see any violence but I do see a lot of citizens who are thoroughly fed up and want the nonsense in Washington to stop. Will it happen overnight? Of course not, but we've got to keep the pressure up and clean this rats nest out in 2010. Yes We Can!

Got Hope? For changing this inept government out, yes I do. However, on the economic front, things are still very volatile. Obama has increased the national debt 4X in six short months, with no end in sight. Jobless claims continue to spiral upwards. The finances of the country are still being administered by tax cheats who were never prosecuted. Retail sales are still sliding. Home foreclosures continue to increase at a rapid rate. Yes, there's some good news in the stock market but I fear that all of the bad financial news will eventually cause that to tank once again. I'm not a financial guru, but I sense even worse financial woes as the chickens of this administration come home to roost. Spending money like drunken sailors on a never ending shore leave, meddling in private business, printing worthless paper money as fast as the presses will spit it out ... the list goes on. The point here is not that this is the end of life as we know it. The point is that financial woes will likely continue to drag us down until we get the Marxist politicians out of our government. Each of us has to do everything we can to turn the next election for our sake and more importantly for the sake of future generations.

Suggested reading: The Drudge Report (www.drudgereport.com) . Even though you'll hear this site get slammed by the mainstream media as "right wing", it really isn't. In fact, the mainstream media feels that anybody who doesn't see things their way is a right winger, when in fact, the media is so far to the left pretty much everything else is to their right. Drudge is really a site with a variety of links to all sorts of news and opinions, left, center and right. You choose what you want to read and and you make up your own mind. Most readers of this blog have probably already visited there, but if you haven't, you should at least give it a try.

Finally, I'm out of the blog business until about August 18 (next Tuesday) as I am having knee surgery. Don't let that stop you from commenting.

Keep up the good fight.