A rant...Watching the news today made me think...(Scary as that is!)   Author:  11723  Category:(Discussion) Created:(2/11/2004 8:34:00 AM) This post has been Viewed (494 times) I woke up real early this morning and put on the news. I am greatly disheartened to see what is going on. It seems I am losing more and more faith in the government as time progresses. It seems the big issue now is legalization of gay marriages. Personally, I don't have a problem with gay marriages. If homosexuals wish to go through with it, more power to them. What upsets me is the fact that George "Dubbya" Bush and other conservative leaders want to add an ammendment to the constitution CLARIFYING that a proper married Union between a married couple should be defined as a "Man and a Woman." Now if people want to add or take away Ammendments to the constitution FOR A GOOD REASON, I have no problem. That is the purpose of the document, it is ever changing and ever evolving. But they want to add an ammendment clarify what a marriage should be. I'm sorry, but the second ammendment is one of the most ambiguous of all of them (The whole right to bear arms thing). Of course, God (Uh-Oh I mentioned the "G" word!) forbid anyone comes along and wants to put a more defined term on that one, the very same conservatives get all up in arms (Excuse the pun) about it. I'm sorry, but I feel that firearms are a much more relevant and DANGEROUS thing than Gay Marriages. I've never seen anyone accidently shoot themselves with a Gay Marriage. I KNOW this somehow this ties into the whole Janet Jackson exposing her breast at the Superbowl...but I haven't figured out the connection yet. This leads me to another issue. Aren't the Republicans supposed to be the ones who are for SMALLER government? In that respect I agree with them. I feel the less involved government is in our own lives the better. More decisions should be made on a state level and not the Federal level. But it seems to me, since "Dubbya" came into office, the Federal government has only gotten even more bloated and bigger; (I cite the addition of the Dept. of Homeland security as another example). Our surplus which we had just afew years ago, has become a deficit not seen in many many years. I don't blame "Dubbya" completely for the deficit as 1) It takes much more than 6 weeks (Which it was 6 wks after he got in office that the economy was officially declared BAD) and 2) Congress has to approve the budget. Why is it the states and every business in the country have to maintained balanced budgets, but it is okay for the Fed to mismanage and mishandle their books? I guess this is where I believe that the government should have some social responsibility towards its citizens. I don't believe the "every man for himself" mentality can completely work as it seems is the conservative agenda. That just makes the rich get richer and poor get poorer. I believe as a government and as human beings we should have at least some responsibility to help others. Another thing that upsets me, is this Pantheonic attitude we seem to have to our Founding Fathers. Some people look at them as these Megalithic men that were infallible. They were human beings just like us. They made mistakes. George Washington never lied? Bull. He was a politician, OF COURSE he lied. But if you want the dirt on our Founding Fathers, I can give that to you in another post. MydniteSon "If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted on men, He would kill Himself." - Alexander Dumas (1802 - 1870). You can join Unsolved Mysteries and post your own mysteries or interesting stories for the world to read and respond to Click here Scroll all the way down to read replies. Show all stories by   Author:  11723 ( Click here ) Spring is coming