We ARE the tired, the poor!!

A bronze plaque, located in the Statue of Liberty exhibit on the second floor of the pedestal, is inscribed with the sonnet "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus.  Most of us know quite well those few lines --
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Well, my, my, my... how things do change!!  Where once, our great and powerful country was the haven of HOPE  for the rest of the world.....we are now just another chunk of real estate, slowly being parcelled out to whatever country can bid the highest!   Yet, still....foreignors flock to this land in droves!! WHY??  We are no longer the 'land of opportunity'.  We can no longer boast of being the place where 'dreams come true'.  OR....perhaps I'm wrong!  Maybe the foreignors DO still see opportunity in America!  Maybe they can make THEIR dreams come true......while our own government is destroying yours and mine!

How do those LEGAL immigrants, from long ago, feel?  They worked hard to become American citizens.  They learned OUR language....we did not learn theirs!  They diligently followed all regulations and requirements to be declared a citizen of this great country.  NOW....all one has to do is sneak across our borders....blend into the populace undetected.....have a baby or two.....and our government will grant them AMNESTY.  They will not face deportation back to their homelands.  No-o-o-o-o!  They will be given "Refugee" status, and qualify for CASH, food, housing, medical care, job re-certification, training and placement, social adjustments, interpreter services......the list just goes on and on.  Todays "refugees" are eligible for up to FIVE YEARS of this wonderful government assistance.   I think I need to denounce my birthright of American citizenship, and start claiming to be a refugee!  As a citizen.....I am finding little, if any,  government assistance available to me, when I need it. 

To anyone reading these words, I say -- life as we know it, will NOT be what our grandchildren and great grandchildren will know.  I beg you all....while you still have time...create your family's "Time Capsule".  Fill it with diaries and photos; memorabilia of happy times spent with friends and loved ones.  You might want to also keep dad's service revolver from his years with the police force,  or your grandfather's hunting rifle, and maybe a small bit of ammo for each.  Not that you will need them for self-defense.....but just so you'll be able to remember what it was like to be able to keep & bear arms AS A FREE PEOPLE  IN AMERICA.  Keep your family capsule in a safe and secure place.  Protect it from the elements of nature, and the threat of destruction by fire! Especially fire!  A thousand years from now, perhaps some archaeologist will find it and ponder how our race came to be extinct.  Be sure to leave notes!

At the rate we're going, as humanity.....it's only a matter of time before one country or another in this big world,  pushes the button that will destroy us all.  I only hope that I am at ground zero when the blast occurs.  I'd rather be instantly vaporized, than to die a slow, agonizing death from radiation poisoning, as there will be no medical treatment available to survivors. (part of the new healthcare plan!)

God help us, all!!