I have lived in New Jersey all my life, and have been to places of beauty. Lewis Morris Park is serene and secluded. I am Blessed to live five minutes from Pennsylvania, and I can see the mountains from a distance on my front porch. There is a side road you can take that goes through the river, waterfalls coming out of the rock, and the majestic mountains. It is breathtaking, especially in the fall.
Pictures, of which I take many, do not even do it justice. I live in the country, and do not have to deal with the hustle and bustle of the bigger cities close by, and that was by choice. I have a 2 acre lake in my back yard, and it is gorgeous to me. And all of us in New Jersey are close enough to go to the beach and become mesmerized by the sea.
I take pride in the beauty I see. Nature has chosen to live within my reach in all directions, and I made the choice to live amongst it and enjoy it. Just seeing the grass cut nicely, and flowers hanging on until the last second before winter closes their petals until next spring. I don't want any of what I have come to surround myself with, to be taken away, or lost because of our government. They are our workers, not the other way around. They work for us. They are supposed to keep our best interests at stake.
"First, do no harm." Can we believe that? Can we put our faith and trust in our government? Haven't we been that route? What do we do? How do we protect what we take pride in, without falling to the negative side, and giving up? Everything is skyrocketing in price. There are many who have to move from their homes because they can't afford the taxes. This is especially apparent with the elders of our generation.
For someone to work 50 years, and retire, and not be able to afford the home they paid a mortgage on for over 25 years, and now own, is deplorable to me. It's as if we can live in our home, we just don't own the land we must stay off. And this in the great US of A? The mentality of letting our retirees have a few good years without having to work before they die is born of greed, and should be revamped. Some of us, as myself, started working when we were 14.
If we work continually, we will then work 51 more years, retire, and enjoy our pension, if we are lucky enough to have one, and social security, which in itself will go to the house taxes, for approximately 15 years. Paid in 50, got paid 15, does that sound fair? And there is no way I would care to hear the words "money" as if it wouldn't be feasible to do such, because we know where over a trillion dollars went. Why couldn't that money go into lowering the age for social security benefits and having enough money to pay everybody?
All these decisions are made by the people we vote for, is it them, or is it us? Do we believe in the wrong candidate? Do we not have much of a choice? Do we believe we are voting for the lesser of two evils? Do we give up and not even bother to vote? We shouldn't give up our rights so easily. Even if we don't like one candidates' issues, we can vote against him and not necessarily for the other. Our ideas and opinions and votes count. If we take pride in our little apple tree growing, and love the feel of the grass under our feet, and the sweet smell of clean air, and watching nature at it's best, and appreciating it, then we need to vote.
We need to try our best to protect that apple tree, and it's right to be there. I have to give all the candidates credit for even being where they are. I want to save the World, and I'm sitting on my computer in my dining room. I watch TV, I listen to CNN, and I continue on with my life. For whatever reasons, these two men have accepted a challenge to run for the President of the United States. Could it be possible that one of them will surprise us, and help us where it counts? I will have no health care soon, and will not be able to afford my medications or doctor visits. Do I believe a miracle will happen and health care will be provided for everyone?
Wouldn't we be able to take pride in a Government that actually takes care of it's people who, for whatever reason, cannot afford Health Care? Who seems to care about the indigent and suffering? Who would know that the cure for aids is available, and do everything they can to get those infected treated. Whether one thinks of aids as belonging to a low life type of lifestyle, it doesn't matter, it is not as bad as the excruciating pain and suffering an aids patient goes through. No human, regardless of their judgments, should wish that type of pain on anyone.
Cancer scares the life out of people who get one type or another, and devastates their families. Do you think a trillion dollars could cure both? If not, we're not learning what we need to in medical school. I lost my own mother to cancer at 59, and I can tell you, 19 years later, my heart aches for her. The government has the power, the ways and means, to do something about this disease, but what do we do with our money? Send it to other countries, and spend it on ridiculous things; does lettuce stay crisper when it is put away wet or dry?
I am still proud of where I live and what our country has to offer. The scenery is breathtaking in many parts of these, our United States. I will not give up hope that there will come a day when there is someone who thinks along the same lines about the poor, the impoverished, the sick, the dying, the elderly, the taxes that are strangling us, the war, and the wounded as we do. We should have taken care of our own country before giving every resource we had away, whether they were borrowed or given. There are many people who are trying to decide right about now, which bridge they will sleep under tonight.
Most have a series of events that landed them under that bridge, even though people will judge them as bums, but once again, in our great country, no one, for whatever reason, should be homeless. Shame on us for allowing it to happen. I bet it wouldn't take a trillion dollars to build a few shelters throughout the United states for people to receive help while they are going through their own problems. There are so many things that could have been improved upon in our own United States with billions going here, and trillions going there.
Where is our pride to clean up our own backyard? Where is our loyalty to our people going through bad times? Where is our higher ups, pushing for cures for cancer, aids, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, down syndrome, and many more who suffer daily? All these trillions of dollars need to go to the right places. I have Faith that God will supply us with a candidate who will do something positive, and if he doesn't, I think the American people should be able to do something about getting him out of office. Who wants to be tied to 8 years like we have been?
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