Basher51's Bluff and Bluster

Welcome to the place where it is free to disagree and tell your government what greedy jerks they are and actually LIVE to post another day.

Ned Yost is unemployed.

That last line is so true, Dose.
Our freedoms are so important.
I will defend those until I die and instill that same spirit in my children and their children.
There is nothing as important in life as having the freedom to do as you choose as long as you do not harm another living creature.
That is a basic human need and the most important rule.
That's why a system with fair, unbiased laws is needed. That's why situations MUST be looked at as a whole. No black and white. There have to be gray areas to allow understanding of an individual situation based on the facts presented. We have become a black and white society. People no longer question why things happen. We've become a lax society mainly interested in television and movies. Why do we care what actors are doing? Why is that paramount in our society? Why aren't people more interested in what's happening in our world, our government and their own lives?
If you really love your country turn off the TV and jump into reality once in a while. Appreciate our country and all it's beauty and learn what is happening in your world. Or, does reality scare people?

Just to pipe in on my own thread...the right thing about this country is that we are a nation of optimists. Wallowing in a pity party is not our way. We are a people who are always striving to see what is beyond the horizon. Take a look at the current financial situation. I know more people who are looking at it from an opportunity standpoint "how is this going to shake out?" "how can I best position my investments?" They are confident that we will rebound. It's simply the American way. We rebound. We fight through it. We are willing to do whatever it takes and even more. That's what frustrates our detractors. Everytime that they write off this great people we bounce back stronger and more optimistic than ever before.

In America, more often than not, the road to success is paved with failure. I personally was broke and unemployed when I started my auto repair business in 1993. Could that happen anywhere else but in America? I don't know about that, but I do know that in America my story is not unique. Here we are all free to try, try, try again. We are all free to change, alter or ammend the things that surround us that would keep us from achieving our goals. We're free to be rewarded in direct relation to the amount of effort we put in. The people who have more, by and large, got more because they put in the time and did what they had to do to get more and/or keep what they have. Rags to riches is the American dream and it happens every day. But you have to put forth the effort. Everyday people have great ideas every day so why aren't they successful? The difference is their ability and willingness to act on their ideas. By the standards of today's world, I'm not rich and I don't expect I ever will be. But if you set money aside...I'm the richest man you'll ever meet. My life is exactly what I'VE made of it and nobody GAVE me anything. I have everything I need and more. How many can say that?

Kat, I have often felt that the American way is not to talk about the problems, but to talk about the solutions. The old John Wayne approach: "It ain't gettin' done just standin' around" is more like the America that we've known.

Sometimes we see 'problems' that don't even exist. Or, even more often, problems have a way of working themselves out. No doubt you can see this in your own life.

There is that old saying "Attitude is Everything". I think that is what Mr. Basher51 is getting at in this blog. In blogging, I have noted that it can be very easy for some to get caught up in an abyss of anger, resentment, just abject negativity. It really drives me NUTS!

I have plenty of problems,(I started a busines in real estate several years ago........LOL) we all do, but everyday I do my best to be postive and muddle through things. The alternative is self-defeating with no hope for victory on any level.

basher, great job on the posting of this blog.

I agree completely.
I just find that many Americans ignore the problems hoping they just go away or that someone else will fix them.
Some problems we can not fix ourselves. It takes a group of people fed up with the way things are going and willingness to fight for what's right.

This was a much better country until we started accepting immigrants a couple of hundred years ago. This country certainly has very positive possibilities if we are all willing to work at it.