Hooray for me, Screw you!

In his book, The Enemy Within, Michael Savage points out how the Liberals in America are destroying our schools, our faith and our military. I can’t say that I disagree with his postulation but this is only the tip of the iceberg of what ails America.

I’ve been in this country for most of my life, over fifty years, having come from Italy when I was eight years old. As I look back, I can truly say that this isn’t the same country that I remember as a little boy. Many fellow European immigrants share the same sentiments.

The apple of their eyes, America, once a great and unblemished fruit has over time started to be eaten by worms. Yes, some were the worms of liberalism that once lived deep near the core and weren’t visible until one took a bite. But now these worms have multiplied and have made their way almost to the skin.

The worm of the fifties was Communism and it was easy to keep this one worm in check. But over time other worms started to make themselves visible. As we spent many of our resources fighting a war in Vietnam we dropped the defenses that were sorely needed to police many of our internal skirmishes. The Temptations had a hit song called, Ball of Confusion, whose lyrics identified some of the worms of the day;

Segregation, determination, demonstration, integration, Aggravation, humiliation, obligation to our nation..

They sang that,
The only person talking about love thy brother is the...(preacher.)And it seems nobody's interested in learning but the...(teacher.)

Evolution, revolution, gun control, sound of soul.Shooting rockets to the moon, kids growing up too soon.Politicians say more taxes will solve everything.

Fear in the air, tension everywhere.Unemployment rising fast - And the only safe place to live is on an Indian reservation

Only fifteen years in this country and one could see the worms that were infiltrating and starting to eat away at the core of the apple (America).

Marvin Gaye was also singing, mercy mercy me Ah things ain't what they used to be, no no

I’ve seen an evolution of where big business owns the government and has paid for it with our taxes.

What happened to Abe Lincoln’s statement that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth?

The good old US of A of 2006 sees an Oil Company CEO retire with a pension of $8 million a year while my mom scrapes to make ends meet on $900/month after working more than forty years in a sweat shop.

Hooray for me and screw you is the motto for the corporate world.
Here are lyrics from a current “protest” song that speaks to what ails us;

But God won't bless America if we
Invade other nations
Disrespect Creation
Act like we're the best
Get so damn greedy that we
Neglect the needy
Defeat the treaty that would
Help out the rest

Greed is not going to set you free. Greed is one of the many worms within.