~Freedom~

Little did we realize we would arrive at a moment in time when our very Freedom would be threatened by those we elected to govern us by our most precious Constitution and Bill of Rights. But we have.

In the past 100 years we have fallen asleep at the helm. Our very foundation of rule was founded on 'We the people, by the people, for the people' and yet we have allowed of governing bodies slowly, but surely, legislate our freedoms away. Most of us have to busy trying to achieve the 'American dream' which for some is just that a dream. We allowed our federal government to become too big and powerful which was not the intent. States rights along with individual freedom and voice have been belittled and even compromised by those we put in power in the highest offices of government.

Where do we go from here? How do we return the Sovereignty to our nation and it's people without a total recall and change in government? But it seems we have a vital need to pull the reigns of power from those who would subvert the very principles our great Nation was founded on by our forefathers.

Without individual freedoms , as guaranteed to us, we become puppets of a cruel and misguided puppet master, the Federal government. This just simply cannot continue or we will be unable to return control to the People where it was intended to stay.

For those who believe they have been unfairly treated in our society, I say take a hard look at your individual responsibility and accountability for your own life. That is where the fault lays, not in any unfair act from anyone or anything else. Millions of people have walked through the gates of America and found opportunity to build great lives through hard work and perseverance. Social Justice is just a term to cover those who have not or will not act on their own behalf.

Today we find our own elected President telling us what to believe and not to believe, in his words it becomes a distraction for us to question the wisdom of his administration and it's policies and ideals. This might seem to please some, but those are not the majority and in this country 'the majority rules' or it was intended to be that way. We have lost sight that this has become the greatest nation on this earth and only 'we the people' can sustain that achievement.

Abandoning the most sacred principles of 'democracy' and 'free enterprise system' will only send us down a fast road to a second or third rate country. Where has pride in our achievements been trumped by a wholesale onslaught to vilify our economic system for a few legislators that believe we are out of control and only legislation to 'hammer' the masses with massive debt to favor those who feel disenfranchised?

Is becoming like other countries in the world by following their failed policies the right thing to do for this America?

If you starve an engine of fuel it will cease to run. Economic policy changes that unduly laden the individual with debt to cover entitlements will achieve that very end, the economy will cease to run. Individuals with dreams of producing new ideas will find no incentive to move forward with those ideas which make our country grow in technology, education and the will to continue.

Why do we listen to such nonsense because a few have not embraced the dream of America? Instead they have embraced this concept that the government is here to care for us, that is just not true and never has been true.

Mr. President, if you wanted to create that kind of society, I for one wish you had chosen another country to experiment with, not my America. You do not seem to possess or understand what our Constitution and Bill of Rights mean. Please stop now and examine your own concepts of Freedom before you subvert this Country any further.

Signed;

A Free American that will never ever bow to these misguided beliefs you have chosen to 'sneak' through and made the Law of the land.

Becoming what we pass on.

~~The 12 Laws of Karma~~

~The Great Law~
As you sow, so shall you reap.
This is also known as the Law of Cause and Effect.
Whatever we put out in our Universe is what comes back to us.
If what we want is Happiness, Peace, Friendship, Love….
Then we should be Happy, Peaceful, Loving and a Friend.

~The Law of Creation~
Life doesn't just Happen, it requires our participation.
We are one with the Universe both inside and out.
Whatever surrounds us gives us clues to our inner state.
BE and DO yourself….
Do what you want to have in your life.

~The Law of Humanity~
What you refuse to accept, will continue for you.
If what we see is an enemy, or someone with a character trait that we find to be negative, then we ourselves are not focused on a higher level of existence.

~The Law of Growth~
Wherever you go, there you are.
For us to grow in Spirit it is We who must change and not the people, places or things around us.
The only given we have in our lives is OURSELVES and that is the only factor we have control over.
When we change who and what we are within our heart our life changes too.

~The Law of Responsibility~
Whenever there is something wrong.
There is something wrong with us.
We mirror what surrounds us and what surrounds us mirrors us.
We must take responsibility for what is in our life.

~The Law of Connection~
Even if something we do seems inconsequential, it is very important that it gets done as everything in the Universe is connected.
Each step leads to the next step and so forth and so on.
Someone must do the initial work to get job done.
Neither the first step nor the last are of greater significance.
They were both needed to accomplish the task.
Past, Present, Future.
They are all connected.

~The Law of Focus~
You can't think of two things at the same time.
When our Focus is on Spiritual Values it is impossible for us to have lower thoughts as greed or anger.

~The Law of Giving and Hospitality~
If you believe something to be true, then sometime in your life you will be called to demonstrate that truth.
Here is where we put what we SAY that we have Learned into Practice.

~The Law of Here and Now~
Looking back to examine what was, prevents us from totally in the HERE AND NOW.
Old thoughts, old patterns of behavior, old dreams….
Prevent us from having new ones.

~The Law of Change~
History repeats itself until we learn the lessons that we need to change our path.

~The Law of Patience and Reward~
All Rewards require initial toil.
Rewards of lasting Value require patient and persistent toil.
True Joy Follows.

~The Law of Significance and Inspiration~
You get back from something whatever you've put into it.
The value of something is a direct result of the energy and intent that is put into it.

knowing a person is knowing what that person wants you to know.

I have lived many views of life, boy, girl, man, woman and each one of them has given me insight into many experiences. Today I watched 'The Secret' twice and will watch one more time before I go to bed for the night. I highly recommend it to everyone it will change the way you think, it has mine.

"Every thought of yours is a real thing -- A force." ~Prentice Mulford~ (1834 - 1891)

I have talked about this so many times before and I will continue to try to explain and share my thoughts. We all are unique individuals with unique life's experiences, no one person is the same as the next. We were raised in different demographics, value systems, educational institutions and social and economic environments that affected us uniquely as individuals. The one thing we all have in common is thought and we only control our thoughts. During childhood until leaving home we have been influenced by all of those factors in a unique way. Some may not have had a parent or parents, maybe one or both were there but did not, either by omission or commission, give us proper or incomplete guidance. The end result is who we have become today, it was our interpretation of those influences that set our mind to it's current thinking.

The movie 'The Secret' illustrates how all things have an energy that emanates all around us from others and ourselves as we interact. We are bound together in so many ways that it is impossible to act without an equal action occurring whether it result in a positive or negative. Albert Einstein's 'Theory of Relativity' opens up quantum physics to include the very cohesiveness and symbiotic relationship that energy plays in everything. In that same mode we, all of us, exist in the same cohesiveness and symbiotic relationship.

As for reason I chose the title of this blog, as we matured in life we made adjustments in our thinking. Make no mistake, these adjustments are positive or negative depending on how we were affected by our experiences. But these adjustments were our responsibility and we are accountable for what we reaped. Many things became hidden from others in preference to decisions we make to adapt ourselves to our current life. We only allow others to know what we want others to know.

Historically speaking for the most part we are a race of violence and suppressors of the masses and I wonder if we can ever break that most evil of intents, greed.

In my life I have served youth because youth is always our future and what we do now determines what they think and do in the future. That, in the most urgent of ways, puts each of us responsible and accountable for what we leave them. In our head long race to 'get' we leave a void for them to understand and that is that there is a law of thought. That law is called 'attraction'. We attract what we think about most.

~Dr. Joe Vitale~ 'Metaphysician, Marketing specialist, and Author'
"Thoughts are sending out that magnetic signal that is drawing the parallel back to you."

~ Charles Hannel~ (1866 - 1949) 'The master key system'
"The predominate thought or the mental attitude is the magnet, and the law is that like attracts like, consequently, the mental attitude will invariably attract such conditions as correspond to it's nature."

~Dr. Joe Vitale~ Metaphysician, Marketing specialist, and Author'
"You are a human transmission tower, and you are more powerful than any television tower created on earth. You are the most powerful transmission tower in the Universe. Your transmission creates your life and it creates the world. The frequency you transmit reaches beyond cities, beyond countries, beyond the world. I reverberates throughout the entire Universe. And you are transmitting that frequency with you thoughts!"

~ Charles Hannel~ (1866 - 1949) 'The master key system'
"The vibrations of mental forces are the finest and consequently the most powerful in existence."

If we evaluate 'history' it is plain to see if we intend our thoughts to mold and create the future, we have an important need to agree and understand just what that future should be.

~Bob Proctor~ 'Philosopher, Author, and Personal coach'
"The law of attraction is always working, whether you believe it or understand it or not."

~Lisa Nichols~ 'Author and Personal empowerment advocate'
"you are the designer of your destiny. You are the author. You write the story. The pen is in your hand, and the outcome is whatever you choose."

One last thing, opportunity is what you make of it, seize it or pass it by, a personal choice. And finally the words of one of the most successful and important figures in American history.

~Henry Ford~ (1863 - 1947)
"Whether you think you can or think you can't, either way you are right."

***** All excerpts and quotes were read into this blog from the book 'The Secret' by ~Rhonda Byrne~ *****

My recent visit to my case manager

have an appointment each week with my mental health case manager on Wednesdays. This is a service that is billed at $100/hr and had been covered by my Medicare and State Medicaid until now. My household "gross" income rose over the acceptable amount, so I'm on my own. First let's talk about 'the ability to pay' part, in a downturn of the economy my town has suffered heavy layoffs and manufacturing and retail closings leaving us with very few jobs available in proportion to the unemployed. As a result for the last year my household has swelled to 13 people which for the most part beyond food stamps left me and my wife paying all expenses. I won't elaborate here except to say we do not have 'the ability to pay' anymore than we are capable. My decision here is one of two things, continue with my case manager mounting debt that I will pay out of pocket or discontinue and save what money I can towards my HRT treatments and savings for SRS.

As far as the new 'Health Care Reform', for me it will not be useful. Not only will it not be available until 2014, in all likely hood it will not cover the only thing that remains important to me as I am in excellent health, my transition to womanhood.

The interesting part of my session began at the very beginning when she was praising the passage of the new bill in Congress. Over the next hour I posed her questions about the bill. Her answers were both amazing and troubling to me. She absolutely new 'nothing' about the bill or it's intents, underlying taxes and negative incentives for individuals and businesses alike. This I don't believe is an isolated event, but if a verbal questioning of the majority who support this change were to occur, the results would be every bit as frightening.

Ignorance of what your Government calls 'good for America' without acquiring knowledge of what it is being offered is like signing a blank check from your personal account. No one would do that, would they?

John Adams, 2nd Prestident of the United States

American History; John Adams,
our 2nd President's Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United
States. 1989., was very concerned about State's power and authority over the Federal Government.

http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres15.html

In his speech he was appealing to honorable men to keep the Federal Government or anything that might amend The Constitution to swing power to Federal Government and Limit State's Authority over the Executive branch.

John Adams gave us warnings and I wonder, in 113 years have we validated or violated what his warnigs were to this Republic.

Create a third party.

After watching the political machine at all levels, it has become obvious that we need two changes to create an effective ethical governmental system. First; leave the majority rule for passing legislation the way it stands. Second create a law that prohibits special interest groups, lobbyists and add on spending items to any spending bill illegal, punishable by removal from office. Two; Empower the Judicial Branch sole authority over adherence to the laws.

Pursuit of your dreams

All of my life I have seen the future as an blank blackboard ready to be written with your own hands. Even in the worst of times I felt the call of the future never believing I was to be handed anything. My future laid in my own hard work, education and persistence. Our new generations are being taught to wait on a parachute thrown to them by others. This over the years of my life has equated to a handout from the government. Some say life is too hard to achieve the "American Dream", I say that is not true and never has been for tose who understand that only you determine if you fail or win. Private corporations and small businesses take a risk everyday that decisions or markets will fail and yet they persevere through hard times. Why then do we need a bigger Government handing out entitlements and bailouts instead of promoting Education, Equality, Honesty, Ethics and Opportunity instead of Enabling our newest generations.

We need pro-active action not a hand out of excuses to depend on someone else for our existence. We have strayed from our founding fathers intents. They fought and died to create a free society where we could do what was necessary to achieve our highest dreams. I see little to nothing from our Educational system except the drive to collective bargain their way to better salaries at the expense of not teaching values that will motivate them to reach out for each of their chosen paths with self assurance. Unions have priced us out of marketplaces and whine that corporations outsource manufacturing to other countries to assemble our own products we use everyday.

As our President laid out the future to the American people I did not hear the words to inspire confidence in the future, instead a future laden with effort to keep even with Federal spending. These actions will further alienate our generations from competition in the workplace and in world economics. Collective bargaining only achieves two things, it lines the pockets of those in the group and it's administrators while increasing labor costs for our products which increases prices that prevent us from being competitive in world markets. The same can be said of Education dollars, denying more and more from attending good universities because of higher costs. These actions cripple America and turn us towards becoming a second rate Country in innovation while these generations wait for what they are Due.


Not one of us is or should or have been guaranteed our "American Dream", it is our pursuit of the dream that makes us strong. Do I promote a pipe dream or an ugly reality we have wrought upon our future generations? Teach values that put the fight back into our young generations, our President speaks nothing of these intrinsic values I was taught.