Where are we going?
George Marshall November 5 2008 10:41:23 AM
Last night as Allison and I watched the election results I thought what it must be like for my brother and his wife (who recently moved to New Zealand) to be experiencing a new life in a new country. Their lives have changed dramatically from their former Iowa lifestyles. My brother's timing has been immpecable. They sold their place before the housing market went into a full-tilt crapfest. His latest declaration of his uncanning ability to dodge adverse times is his move out of this country.They have been in New Zealand for just over a week and already use terms like "You Americans". They are sounding less like an expatriate and more like New Zealanders already. I am sure there is a sense of relief knowing that they have left behind them a country which is about to face it's toughest times under new radical leadership. They have given themselves 2 years abroad to get the full effect. That should give them a good indication on how the new president is doing.
It will be an interesting time for this country and now that I have my brother abroad to give me feedback it will give a me a barometer of what the rest of the world thinks. What must others think of the US, with a disrepected President, a clueless Congress and an inexperienced President-Elect. The worst is yet to come and with this lurch to the left and their misguided agenda it will certainly take this county in a new direction of cowardice and stifling our freedoms.
I hope I am wrong about this new part of our history that we are about to make. I hope I am wrong about the surge of classless people and their putrid disrespect for the office of the President. I hope I am wrong about the Congress and their display of ignorance on how our economy and financial markets work. I hope I am wrong about the President-Elect's inexperience and socialist agenda.
That's certainly a lot riding on "hope". "Have hope brother, dispair is for the defeated." (I don't recall who said that).
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