A Slightly Different Look At Things

Here’s a post I started about 5 weeks ago. A little out of date but still relevant!

SOME THINGS TO THINK ABOUT

I hear all the ranting and raving about our President’s executive orders and healthcare legislation and everything else he has done or said since he started his campaign. Let’s take a real look and maybe we can learn something.

1. Travel ban. Not a bad idea when you look at it from the U.S. point of view. If we can stop just one bad dude from entering this country to do us harm I’m all in. Now I have heard all the Muslim ban talk but just because someone is from Somalia doesn’t make them Muslim. But a Somalian can certainly be a bad dude. (Of course dude can be gender neutral).
2. Immigration reform. Great idea. Make people come in to our country legally. Why should we have to support all the ones that don’t follow the rules. After all if I wanted to immigrate to, say, Somalia do you think they would let me just walk across the border? And then if I got sick do you think I would be taken care of?
3. Marriage rights. Why should the LGBTQ community have special rights? Why should there have to be a special law just for them? I’m straight and I don’t get my own day in court.
4. Climate change, global warming. Just because you say it doesn’t make it true. Maybe we’re just going through a natural change in weather patterns
5. Cutbacks to National Parks. Look, there is still plenty of land out there that doesn’t need our protection. Just protect the areas that people go to see. I would venture a guess that at least 90% of all federally protected lands have never been seen by anyone in this country.
6. Healthcare reform. What’s wrong the rich getting richer? If premiums go down count me in. No president, senator or congressman would let someone lose their life savings or their life just because the get sick.

So that’s just a few of the wonderful things that our President has either proposed or actually signed. If it wasn’t for the insanity of everything I just wrote maybe I could believe my own words. Everything above is outrageously stupid! How could one man even come up with so many bad ideas? It’s like he opens his mouth and absurdity makes an appearance.

There are so many causes we need to fight for. It is almost impossible to keep track of them all. Pick one or as many as you can handle and take them as far as you can. There as good organizations out there fighting for our rights. Help them out. Do what you can. Let your voice be heard. You don’t have to be out in front, you can quietly support what you believe in.