I have never been as completely ashamed to be an American citizen then I am right now. I am ashamed that that a large part of our government is actually trying to shift the burden of this countries debt on to the backs of children the poor and infirm. I am ashamed that our countries wealthy have chosen to elect individuals who will fight to protect them from paying a share equal to the rewards they have gained as citizens of the richest country in the world.
I am shamed when I see my state and local government has made no contingency for the lean years. That they built a house of cards upon income streams that were not secure. That they chose to make forfeiture a budget entry thereby requiring those funds as operating budgets.
I'm ashamed that every one of our leaders democrat and republican let us down when they did not require taxpayers to directly foot the bill for the wars in the middle east and elsewhere. And I still believe that we should be repaid in full by the countries we liberate.
I'm ashamed that even before the economic crisis every time the budgets were scrutinized the education allocations would suffer. That we pay our teachers less then carpenters that we require so much and yet offer so little to these people who are responsible for teaching our kids.
It shames me to think that our judicial justice system is set up to felonize the youth, which revokes the right to vote. That our archaic way of dealing with addiction costs more lives then it saves. That the incarceration rates of Africans Americans is still so much higher then Whites.
I'm ashamed that in our zeal to act enlightened racially we have created a homogenized stereotype of racial equality which is not equal by any true sense of the word. Not equal on either side I might add. That we somehow discount our differences to the point that they should no longer be mentioned is to say that as individuals we no longer exist.
I'm ashamed that we've chosen comfort over common sense. That we have chosen to abandon civility. I'm ashamed that the freedom of speech has evolved into a god given right to be heard. That you can hurl insults at a family during a funeral without having to suffer the physical repercussions of that act.
I'm ashamed of the men we have become. So different from our grandfathers who saved this place for us. Men who are only willing to fight for their wallets. Those who would rather see the poor bear the brunt of the economic mess that the wealthy created.