This started out to be a blog of well wishes for the holidays and on that note I begin with the following:
❤.•✯☃✯•.❤ May your life be filled with...
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Joy Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ,
♥ Love ♥
& ♪♪♪ Laughter ♪♪♪!
May you be blessed with good health, prosperity, & above all...
a sense of gratitude for all the blessings in your life.
❤.•✯☃✯•.❤
♥*✿Ѽ✿*♥Happy (◠‿◠) Thanksgiving♥*✿Ѽ✿*♥
★*´¨`*☃ Merry ✯☃✯ Christmas ☃*´¨`*★
•*¨*•.¸¸ღ❤Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ❀Happy Hanukkah❀Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ❤ღ¸¸.•*¨*•
✯*¨*•.¸¸❤❀Happy Kwanzaa❀❤¸¸.•*¨*✯
♥*✯☆✯*♥ ★ Happy ★ New ★ Year ★ ♥*✯☆✯*♥
♥Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒღ❤.❀✯Lotsa ☃ Love✯❀.❤ღƸ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ♥
✿❀•*¨*•.¸¸ Prayers Without End ¸¸.•*¨*•❀✿
Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ♥Holiday Blessings to All♥Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ
✯.•*•.☆Loving Hugs to Family & Friends☆.•*•.✯
I am seeing more and more people talking about the difficulties they are facing for the upcoming holiday season. Most being financial, since so many of us are out of work, our unemployment has run out and wondering where we go from here, making do with what little assistance is available from our home state, county, etc. The thing that upsets me is the attitude of people who have never experienced the need for help from the government, friends or family. For those families going through this economical crisis, I am so sorry because I know it has to be 10 times harder on you with your children, than someone like me who's children are grown with families of their own. It makes me sad that I can't help my children financially, as they have their own struggles, I'm unable to give anything to my grandchildren, which breaks my heart, but they are doing the best they can with what they have. My parents, God bless them, have always helped out everywhere they could, even giving up things they NEEDED, to help all of us but they are both retired, have health issues, had to basically start over in their 70's, to struggle in there own way to get by. I find it is getting so much harder than I ever imagined and yet I have come to understand that you have to make choices though no matter what choice you make you lose something you need for basic survival. You try to keep the wolf from the door, you try to keep a roof over your head, to have heat so you don't freeze to death, electricity to run your medical apparatus so you can breathe, then you're left with paying for your medicine to help you stay as well as possible or buying food to nourish your body. With all of this I see why people end up eating cat food since you can get it for 25 cents a can.
What has our country come to. I know this is a disposable world and we just throw things away because we want something bigger, better, more technologically up to date. There are no social classes, there are only the people are well off to wealthy or damn near dirt poor & destitute. There is no middle class anymore since you are either in the class where you can get what you NEED with no trouble, or you have to decide which you need the worst, a place to live, utilities, medication, or food. That is as basic as it gets! Yet you still have to choose which one you are going to use what little money you have on. We are talking needs here...not wants. One of the richest countries in the world, that has gone in debt by overspending on totally asinine projects, equipment, etc and helping other countries out of their troubles while our own citizens go without necessities of life. A country who has given food, medical care, housing, jobs, education, etc. to people who aren't even citizens of this country! I'm sorry...did I step on someones toes?
I understand people from other countries wanting to come to one of the greatest countries in the world, but not at the expense of the people who were born here or who worked very hard to become citizens through the proper channels.
All right then, I think I have made myself quite clear that this is and has been an ongoing problem that after all these years and all this Republican/Democrat
finger pointing we are getting no where....MAN UP or WOMAN UP and take responsibility for what you as our elected officials have allowed to continue to the people who depended on you, counted on you and voted for you to guide our country in a way that honored Her and Her children (we the people) by allowing us to live with the basic needs of every man woman and child.
Do you really think anyone in our present day government has really read the document below, and if they have, did they understand it? Our average citizens are in dire straits. I'm not saying the government is responsible for our poor choices, but I am blaming them for the lack of jobs, the lack of viable assistance to those who REALLY need it, the fact that when it comes to apples & oranges the poor pay the lion' share of the taxes to this country. I cannot stress enough how out of balance our country has become.
Please forgive my personal additions to our Declaration of Independence but it belongs to each and every one of us who are the CITIZENS of the United States of America! So I feel the liberties I have taken with it would meet with approval of our forefathers, were they alive to see what's happening to the Country the fought for, protected, and love with their last breath
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
hen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men (& women) are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men (& women), deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, (that's us)— That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor. 
