What Next

So far the administration has stuck it's tentacles into different areas of our private sector.
Starting with regulating CEO pay and bonuses to firing CEO's, and firing military generals with 30+ years of distinguished service for no good reason, it's become quite alarming to say the least.

Yesterday afternoon I was listening to Rush and he was reading a letter sent to American Thinker from an owner of a Dodge dealer.

When I heard Rush read:

On Thursday, May 14, 2009 I was notified that my Dodge franchise, that we purchased, will be taken away from my family on June 9, 2009 without compensation and given to another dealer at no cost to them...

THIS IS A PRIVATE BUSINESS NOT A GOVERNMENT ENTITY

This is beyond imagination! My business is being stolen from me through NO FAULT OF OUR OWN. We did NOTHING wrong...

The first thing that came to my mind was my dad telling me about the day, in Cuba, that my grandmother went to open her beauty salon and there were government officials waiting for her to tell her that it was no longer her business. Just like private property and private businesses were seized from law abiding, hard working, Cubans 50 years ago, now it is being seized from Americans.

I don't understand how, in America, a person can lose their business the way a couple of thousand dealership owners have in the last week. I used to think this was not the type of thing that happened in our great country but I guess I was wrong. It didn't stop with capping pay and bonuses and it is not going to stop with owners losing their businesses at no fault of their own. But when will it stop? When are people going to say enough is enough and at that point is it going to be to late?

What I'm really scared of right now is that there are more people in this country that just want to get "theirs" from the government and they are not concerned with what they are losing in the process. I'm also scared that too many of these people don't even realize what they are losing and/or just don't care as long as they are going to be taken care of. I also think that too many people think they are owed something instead of taking care of themselves. Come one people, put your big kid pants on and take care of yourself and your own and quit expecting someone else to. When you depend on them they have control over you, they shouldn't have the control over us, they work for us remember?

So much to say, so little time

I have been beyond negligent about posting. Trust me, it's not for a lack of things to say. Every day, there are things on the news that get my blood boiling and I have a million things going through my head. There has been way too much going on though.

First, my Internet connection has been iffy for the past month. Today the cable company had several trucks out here all day working at just about every house on the street. So, hopefully, whatever was going on will be fixed now.

Second, The Army Dude finally left for Korea. It's been a pretty smooth transition, probably because I've become used to him being gone all the time because of work, but it still has taken some getting used to being the only parent again.

Third, I found out my at the end of March that, as of the end of April, I would be out of a job. I told the Army Dude on election night that I'd probably be without a job by summer and sure enough. But it was a blessing in disguise because Army Dude's reaction was to get command sponsorship for us to move to Korea too. YAY! Which brings me to:

Fourth, now that I'm not working anymore I am full steam ahead, getting ready to move this summer. Right now I'm still getting the house ready for the real estate agent to come take pictures and start advertising it. We decided to just rent it because we'd love to move back here, either after Korea or when Army Dude retires in less than 5 years (YAY!).

And Fifth, school, I decided to take 3 classes again this term, because I didn't learn my lesson last summer. It's been hard to keep up at times and having bad Internet connection has not helped at all. But I have learned one very important point this term. I HATE public administration and I'll be changing my major, once again, after this term. I'm also not taking classes over the summer because that would be insane to do when I'm trying to move overseas. But come fall I'll be back and this time I'll be majoring in international relations.

So that's a quick run down of what's been taking up most of my time lately. There are some things that I really want to comment on, hopefully by the end of the week, including the release of the interrogation memos and Nancy Pelosi's apparent onset of Alzheimer's, the release of one Presidential plane picture that reminds us of just how insensitive the Obama administration is but the release of hundreds of pictures that make the military look bad, and of course, keeping with the theme, the firing of a general officer with decades of honorable service for no apparent reason other than they want change.