March 22, 2010

America Lost

By Steve McCann
In the 1970s, there was an evocative public service advertisement on television. It showed an old and grizzled Native American Chief with a tear rolling down his cheek as he surveyed the pollution scaring the landscape of the once-pristine land.As the House of Representatives passed Health Care Reform, many of us who were blessed to immigrate to the United States in search of freedom and opportunity (and were welcomed with open arms) found ourselves looking across the panorama of our adopted land with a tear rolling down our cheek.Many of us who came to the United States did so to escape the brutal hand of government or as survivors of the consequences of tyranny run amok.It has become difficult to watch, as our adopted land appears to have chosen a path that will lead to a nation we dare not imagine: a nation beginning to resemble what we left behind.We see in Washington, D.C. the spectacle of a Congress whose members are no longer responsive to the people or the Constitution, but...(Read Full Article)