Posted by
Dave The White House Slave on Friday, August 07, 2009 10:00:00 PM
Back in January I was witness to a massive company wide layoff where I work. I survived but had all my overtime eliminated, then I had all of the sales commissions I had built up over the year totally eliminated at the end. I had finished #1 in sales two consecutive years. What I've seen so far is a 26 cent raise. I did reap some great rewards after that first year. But my income has been cut in half in less than a year. My wife now works a 3rd shift job as a swing manager at a 24 hour Mickey D's. We can't afford day care so we work in shifts. My wife earns about 60% of what I lost if she works a full week. My kids are homeschooled. My poor kids have to be quiet til when they wake up until about noon each day, just so my wife can sleep a little. This is tough job when you're an 8 year old boy and an 11 year old girl. Our cars are both constantly in need of maintenance. The small loan I took out on my 2003 Escort is sucking what little extra income we had off to the bank. The electric, cable and especially this high speed internet are all on the verge of being turned off.
I watch Fox and Friends every morning. I used to watch the local Fox affiliate more, but the seriousness of everything has kept me glued to F&F. I listen to about an hour of Glenn Beck on the road each day on my way to my incredibly stressful sales job. Beck is like a Paul Revere. He rings the bell, he blasts the horn, he even sheds a tear. Sometimes I well up listening to the guy. He's totally stressed out as well. You can tell. Recently he's got his friends in there with him. Stu and Pat. They must be there for more than just good production value. Glenn needs moral support. When I get back home, I tune in to O'reilly, sometimes Hannity and even Greta. I have totally given up on sports programming. Keep in mind, I live in New England where sports is king. I look at blogs and facebooks from friends and relatives all lamenting the Red Sox as they fall out of first place. Nodody seems to care that the sport is all steriods and marred by athletes who are more than likely not good role models. You'd think I'd want a good diversion from the youtube video from the AARP meeting where the old folks took it over trying to get to the truth. But no. I click on another link and I'm treated to a black guy getting kicked around by four other black guys because he was selling patriotic stuff at a town hall meeting. These guys had shirts on that said SEIU. Glenn Beck had mentioned that this group was another arm of ACORN. Apparently they are arms, legs and fists.
My health seems to be in a state of suspended animation. I'm not sleeping all that well. The fact that my wife is out the door when most people are coming home, and she comes home when most people are out the door might have messed with my snoozing patterns. Plus the kids want their toast smothered with all that chocolate goo. I feel like I'm trapped in a version of the surreal life that has come down from outer space and taken over most of America. I see pockets of hope. If I could only get to Texas or Utah or Mississippi. But we don't have enough money to make it south. Massachusetts has been this way far longer than the rest of the republic. We elected a governor on the "yes we can" platform when we could have had people with experience running stuff. I'm losing my ability to cope. Between work and the world I feel out of control. I want to declare my independence from this insanity, but something I can't control keeps getting bigger. All I want is to raise my children in freedom, love my wife, serve Jesus, and maybe survive my work. If this job goes away, Ill do whatever it takes to find another.
But God has to help me at this point. I've run out of myself. The government is out of control. God must intervene. We are losing the values and ideals that propelled this country since its founding. Those concepts were so potent that even when we veered off course, they acted as a self correcting mechanism. Now, we have a government purposely destroying the constitution as it was intended. We are now on the verge of anarchy. I sit and type and realize what I've just written. My kids sleep soundly dreaming about Miley Cyrus, video games and giant cheeseburgers with extra pickles. I carry this Cross around and so does my wife. And so do many of us. If we don't find a way to put a stop to this, the USA will be another socialist republic with limited freedoms and a soft tyranny. There are things to fight for. Maybe we all needed a new purpose. In the end, God knows what he's doing. He builds up nations and He tears them down. Try reading Ezekiel when the kids and families are all being slaughtered because they were warned a million times and refused to listen. That is us. We are in tha Book. I wish I could rest easy tonight, but I'll likely toss and turn again. My wife will awake at 4 so she can be to work for 5am. God, if you're listening, we need a bailout! Bring us back to You. And keep our prophet Glenn out of harms way.