A Fair Assessment of the USA

This lady has it right ...This gal about covers it all! -----

Letter of Outrage -----This letter was sent to the Wall Street Journal on August 8, 2008 byAlisa Wilson, Ph.D. Of Beverly Hills , CA . in response to the WallStreet Journal article titled

"Where's The Outrage?" that appearedJuly31,2008.

Really. I can tell you where the outrage is. The outrage is here, in this middle-aged, well-educated, upper-middle class woman. The outrageis here, but I have no representation, no voice.

The outrage is here, but no one is listening for who am I? I am not a billionaire like George Soros that can fund an entirepolitical movement. I am not a celebrity like Barbra Streisand that can garner the attention of the press to promote political candidates. I am not a film maker like Michael Moore or Al Gore that can delivermisleading movies to the public.

The outrage is here, but unlike those with money or power, I don'tknow how to reach those who feel similarly in order to effect change.Why am I outraged? I am outraged that my country, the United States ofAmerica , is in a state of moral and ethical decline. There is no right or wrong anymore, just what's fair.

Is it fair that millions of Americans who overreached and borrowedmore than they could afford are now being bailed out by the governmentand lending institutions to stave off foreclosure? Why shouldn't thesepeople be made to pay the consequences for their poor judgment?

When my husband and I purchased our home, we were careful to purchaseonly what we could afford. Believe me, there are much larger, muchnicer homes that I would have loved to have purchased. But, takingresponsibility for my behavior and my life, I went with the house thatwe could afford, not the house that we could not afford. The notion ofpersonal responsibility has all but died in our country.

I am outraged, that the country that welcomed my mother as an immigrant from Hitler's Nazi Germany and required that she and herfamily learn English now allows itself to be overrun with illegal immigrants and worse, caters to those illegal immigrants.

I am outraged that my hard-earned taxes help support those here illegally. That the Los Angeles Public School District is in such disarray that I felt it incumbent to send my child to private school, that every time I go to the ATM, I see "do you want to continue inEnglish or Spanish?", that every time I call the bank, the phone company , or similar business, I hear "press 1 for English or press 2 for Spanish". WHY? This is America , our common language is English and attempts to promote a bi- or multi-lingual society are sure to fail and to marginalize those who cannot communicate in English.

I am outraged at our country's weakness in the face of new threats onAmerican traditions from Muslims. Just this week, Tyson's Food negotiated with its union to permit Muslims to have Eid-al-Fitr as a holiday instead of Labor Day. What am I missing? Yes, there is a large Somali Muslim population working at the Tyson's plant in Tennessee. Tennessee , last I checked, is still part of the United States . If Muslims want to live and work here they should be required to live andwork by our American Laws and not impose their will on our long history.

In the same week, Random House announced that they had indefinitely delayed the publication of The Jewel of Medina, by Sherry Jones, a book about the life of Mohammed's wife, Aisha due to fear of retribution and violence by Muslims. When did we become a nation ruled by fear of what other immigrant groups want? It makes me so sad to see large corporations cave rather than stand proudly on the principles that built this country.

I am outraged because appeasement has never worked as a political policy, yet appeasing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is exactly what we are trying to do. An excellent article, also published recently in theWall Street Journal, went through over 20 years of history and why talking with Iran has been and will continue to be ineffective. Yet talk, with a madman no less, we continue to do. Have we so lost our moral compass and its ability to detect evil that we will not go in and destroy Iran's nuclear program? Would we rather wait for anotherHolocaust for the Jews - one which they would be unlikely to survive? When does it end?

As if the battle for good and evil isn't enough, now come theEnvironmentalists who are so afraid of global warming that they wantto put a Bag tax on grocery bags in California; to eliminate Mylar balloons; to establish something as insidious as the recycle police in San Francisco. I do my share for the environment: I recycle, I use water wisely, I installed an energy efficient air conditioning unit. But when and where does the lunacy stop? Ahmadinejad wants to wipe Israel off the map, the California economy is being overrun by illegal immigrants, and the United States of America no longer knows right from wrong, good from evil.. So what does California do?
Tax grocerybags.

So, America , although I can tell you where the outrage is, this one middle-aged, well-educated, upper middle class woman is powerless to do anything about it. I don't even feel like my vote counts because I am so outnumbered by those who disagree with me.

Alisa Wilson, Ph.D.
Beverly Hills , California

Comment: Great job Ms. Wilson. I think many agree with, especially those of us who marched April 15, 2009..... If natural-born American taxpaying citizens do-not follow through and remove this "Usurper" from the oval office immediately, if not sooner this former Republic will be in the third world tank with no way out!
Thanks again:
Unhappy American