Giving too much stuff and not enough time

Now that I'm home taking care of my wife and children in need... I caught a glimpse of Dr. Phil.  Yes the doctor that knows little if anything about medicine other than what is a band-aide.  

He was interviewing a woman whom had lost all hope with her child.  Her child was now doing everything in her power to make every choice a bad one.  She was finally arrested for some of her deeds.  So the big doctor asked her why this had happened.  Her reply...She had given it all to her child.  Every material thing she could afford to give was given.  She summed it up with the intriguingly concise sentence. "I gave her everything except for my time".  

I have discussed this with my wife and mother in law at length.  Our parents generation was never given anything materialistic that they didn't have to earn on with their own sweat and tears.  So when they grew up, what did they do?  They overcompensated and doled out everything materialistic in attempts to give them what they didn't have.  

I think they are missing the point.  They are successful today because of the fact that they had to earn their success.  Their parents worked hard.  However that is just a fraction of my point here.  I would like to point out that distractions were a minimum in those days.  No TV, Playstation, cell phones, or iPod.  Communication and travel outside of the home was expensive and therefore kept to a minimum.  A prime example of this was my grandma who passed away a few years ago.  When I called her, our conversation was always very brief.  Why you may ask?  Because she was asocial (not antisocial-a missnomer meaning fighting against social norms)?  NO! Again, because of the aforementioned cost.  It was a habit to keep conversation short to keep cost down.  I digress... Back to my point.     

Our children deserve our time, not materialistic gifts that are aimed at compensating for the void in time.  Activities such as eating dinner together, doing homework together, and attending extracurricular events are imperative in their growth.  This means not only attending the extracurricular event, but participating.  In that time with them, you not only bond in friendship with them, but also find out what their friends are up to, what they are being taught, and what they feel is important in life.

How about that for a random post!

Health care for everyone!

Okay, like my previous statement about healthcare for everyone...after that, I propose free car tune ups for everyone!  THEN we'll see how fast and efficient our cars will be tuned up.   Might as well become your own mechanic.  

I agree that Health care needs reform. Here's something to chew on...

TORT REFORM!  Stop all the frivolous law suits.  Stop suing doctors because your baby comes out looking like you!

BUILD A WALL!  Illegal influx is killing us!  Do you know how many illegals I see every day in our clinic just in Oklahoma (because I speak spanish) whom are using state insurance (medicaid-Oklahoman tax payers thank you very much)?  The people are sweet, but the policy is killing our nation.

ILLEGAL BOOT CAMP!  Learn english, love our country, serve in the military, and become one of us!  Then let the U.S. welcome them with open arms.  None of this Amnesty nonesense... Click here for the nonsense

To lose trust...

"To be trusted is a greater quality than to be loved".  I think I misquoted this (there is another word instead of quality), but it drives the point home.  For me, the President of the United States should be someone who represents the moral, ethical, and all around values of the American people.  When a president equivocates due to being given misinformation, I understand this and can forgive him very easily.  However, when falsehoods are jammed down my throat and is plain as the writing on the wall that they are false...It really chaps my hide.  

When "Slick Willy" lied about his affair with Monica, it not only was a moral disgrace for the national face of our nation, but to lose the trust by lying about it to the people was the tipping point for me.  I can no longer trust anything that comes out of his mouth.

The same goes for Barack Hussein Obama...

Here's a report in regards to his "cram HIS health care plan down our throat" speech.

Rich Noyes, director of research at the MRC, says The Associated Press did do a fact check on his speech.   "[The AP story suggests] that he uttered 'a variety of over simplifications and omissions,'" says Noyes. "He talked about how he would not add a single dime to the deficit, when the studies are showing it would add about a trillion dollars to the deficit over the second year of the plan. He talked about not permitting any illegal immigrant to be covered, when in fact it was Democrats who voted down any attempt to verify immigration status."   "The list of things that he talked about [was] very misleading," the MRC spokesman concludes, "added to the arrogant veneer of him scolding anybody else for taking liberties with the truth as liars, as he did."   Noyes says Obama's speech was about as "audacious" as one could possibly get. He says while the AP did do its fact check, there has been little coverage from the mainstream media on Obama taking liberty with the facts during his speech. Until that happens, says MRC, it gives the president "a green light to lie and cry wolf about whatever he wants, whenever he wants -- and it will aid in the most radical government takeover ever attempted in America."

Oh, and by the way, Mr. Rodgers from Michigan I believe it is...hit the nail on the head. Thanks for the send Jennerator

Health care bill spelled out