The "Crossroads"

Yogi Berra, one of our national icons and a "philosopher" in his own right once said: "When you come to a crossroads, take it"

Putting Yogi's humor aside, there is little doubt that this country is at a crossroads and I fear we are taking the wrong road. In a previous blog I predicted that if Obama won the election, voters would eventually say to themselves, "What have we done?" I still predict that will happen.

I recently watched William Ayers being interviewed on "This Morning America" and cannot believe we give people like this a national forum. He had the nerve to say that the organization he founded; the Weather Underground, were not terrorists since they did not "target people". He was personally involved in bombing the Pentagon, the Capital, and New York police headquarters where people were injured. Three of his "associates" did die while preparing a bomb that was to be used against a military base, and he tried to bomb the family home of a judge he did not agree with. He has also been taped stomping on the American flag. And this is a person as a college professor teaches our children and was voted "Citizen of the Year" in Chicago in 1997...unbelievable.

Here is what I mean about the country being at a "crossroads":

- We tolerate individuals like Bill Ayers teaching our children;
- We accept irresponsible behavior and allow the government to bailout individual mortgage holders and financial institutions who made bad decisions;
- We consider "bailing out" major businesses like the auto makers, or state and municipal governments that got themselves into trouble because of poor management, while the small businessman works his 60 hours a week to keep afloat. We do these bailouts with taxpayers money and put our children and grandchildren in debt;
- We propose increasing taxes on hard working entrepreneurs and rich people so we can "spread the wealth" to help out less fortunate people, many of whom will get a free welfare check paid for by the working people of this country;
- We refuse to expand our vast energy resources and as a result have become more and more dependent on foreign countries that hate us. In my opinion one of the reasons for the failure of the automakers is the "controlled" high price of oil by foreign countries which killed US auto sales;
- We decide that in the interests of "humanity" we should allow our borders to be open so the "American dream" is available to everyone, even when the American people pay the bill;

Yes, we are at a crossroads. In addition to the Presidency, the Democrats will have control of the House and possibly a "filibuster proof" Senate. If that happens, Independents, Republicans, and Conservatives will be powerless during the next two years, and maybe longer.

Let's hope we do not get too far down that wrong road before the people of this country realize their mistake.