What Can I DO?

This is Livvy. Why the sad tears? Well, she went to the store with me one evening and I was happy about it. Me and her. When we got to the store however, she began to tell me she needed a treat. (Treats are OK sometimes) But this particular day I said no. So she began to whale in the middle of the store. She told me she would never go out with me again and moms were ALWAYS supposed to give their kids treats. I explained to her several times that we could have fun without having to "get something."



I watched her very calmly throughout the store. I would stop occasionally and offer a hug which she would gladly accept and then she would ask for the treat. The crying would start again and again. I know we got many lookers, but honestly I didn't care much because this lesson Livvy must learn before she is too old. That is of Entitlement.

She thinks she is entitled to a treat just because we were hanging out together. Now I know I try not to get on a soap box about politics but it has been bothering me so much lately! I feel like our nation has become a crying child in a supermarket that won't stop until we get something we want or we think we are entitled to. Why is this?

The more I talk to my friends about how the government is operating against the will of the people the more the question is, "But what can I do about it?" No one wants to disrupt a relationship by talking politics - but I have thought and thought about it and decided we need to be talking about it! The more we want to close our ears the more we need to open them. (if that makes sense!) Learning the constitution, staying informed, and talk about what our leaders of this country are doing. Feeling a sense of responsibility to what we are leading our kids into. By just talking to others it informs and invites those who don't know to go check it out for themselves. I feel like our nation got too comfortable and just turned our rights over to the politicians "to choose what's right for us." That gives our politicians too much power and when we have too much power in the government it directly takes rights away from the people. I don't want my rights taken away. I don't want the government to tell me when I should or shouldn't go to the Dr. I want the right to choose. This is what makes America...America. Land of the free.

Weather you are for or against certain public leaders - you have to know the issues personally. It makes me sick to my stomach to watch our rights being voted away with no regard for the people. I hope it does for the American people too. My vote is 1 but that's what it takes - one vote at a time.