Who would like a big hug from your gramma?
My grandma was a tiny, German lady who came over to America at the tender age of fourteen, worked in a tuna canning factory for two cents for every can she packed, and managed to save enough money to bring her whole family to this blessed country days before Hitler’s occupation. That is the stuff from which this country and its families emanated.
Today, most folks I know are horrified, depressed, and afraid. We have watched, with disbelief, as our freedoms and our voices have been snatched away by a government that would disgust my grandma. When she stepped foot onto American soil, she did not speak English, did not have a place to live, and had only a few pennies that my Great Grandfather had hidden away for her voyage. America did not give her a hand-out. This new country did not offer her subsidized housing or free (?) medical care. There were no employment counselors or social workers awaiting her arrival with extended unemployment benefits or career training. She could not get a student loan. She was alone in a foreign country with the fate of her loved ones weighing heavily on her heart. We will now use her courageous model to get through this difficult time.
1. The time for mourning is over. We have power and pull with our government. It is only if we quietly accept this outcome that those who would enslave our citizens win. And so, if your congressman or senator voted “yes” on Health Care, write, email, or call them and express your disdain. Most legislators will begin a dialogue with you. Be informed and stand your ground. Keep the dialogue going as long as you can. Months would be best.
2. Place signs and bumper stickers on your yards and cars expressing your outrage and determination to repeal the law.
3. Attend caucus meetings, if you are inclined, and make your voice heard. Do not let them bully you into defeat.
4. Comment on as many blogs as you are able. Use key words like repeal, revolution, socialism, grassroots, tea party, conservative, civil disobedience, and the reformulation of Congress.
5. Stay informed as much as possible. If you do not actually know the truth, you can easily believe lies.
6. Get serious about a food supply. It is going to get very expensive to live in America.
7. Tone down the rhetoric so that your information does not sound like the raging of an angry lunatic. However, do not miss an opportunity to educate those who have not yet figured out what happened yesterday.
8. Calm down. We must be focused, prayerful, informed, and wise. The other side is wildly drunk with power. It is easy to defeat an opponent that is out of control.
9. Keep the political spotlight on at all times. The progressives think we will forget our angst by November, learn to appreciate what they did to us, and settle in to apathy.
10. Become involved in a group that is a champion of freedom like The Fair Tax Campaign, a local Tea Party group, a Christian ministry like American Heritage or Christian Seniors Association, Focus on the Family, or ACLJ.
11. Tear up your AARP cards. Research the platform of ANY group you currently support. If there is even a breath of community organization, scandal, unrighteous endorsements, or progressive platforms, cancel your membership.
12. Donate, if you can, to organizations that support the American philosophy of free enterprise, free speech, life, liberty, and protection of the unborn.
13. Go to the polls in November and give every, single legislator that voted “yes” on the health care bill their walking papers. Carefully and thoughtfully, choose new representatives. Hold their feet to the fire.
14. Do not despair. There is One who holds everything in His Holy hands. “Be still, and know that I am God.” Your faith will sustain and strengthen you through it all.
Now, get out there and win one for my grandma!
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