I'll start this blog off by telling a very brief description of me and why I'm writing this blog.
I joined the Navy right after graduating from High School. I served our country for 21 years retiring in 2001 after spending 16 years in submarines and another 3 years on surface ships and then finishing off my last 2 at a shore maintenance facility. My time in the Navy was uneventful since it was during the Cold War, important, but thankfully uneventful. Just prior to my retirement my middle son joined the Army and attended MP school and then jump school. After I retired I went to work for a company in Albuquerque, NM for about 18 months but decided I did not like working inside so... I turned to truck driving. I've been an over-the-road driver now for 7 years, the last 5 with my wife as my co-driver. During my first couple of years of driving our son pulled 2 tours in Iraq as an MP with the 82nd Airborne, thankfully he came home safe, although he experienced a lot more then one his age should have to.
Driving a truck gave me plenty of time to listen to the news and become aware of what is going on in our country and the world. I'm not a formally educated person but at the same time I have opinions and beliefs that I feel are just as relevant as the next persons. I am a firm believer in the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I believe our Founding Fathers gave us the best start they possibly could. It is our responsibility to ensure the work they did and the blood they shed and the many men and woman over the past couple of centuries have shed is not forgotten.
I know there will be plenty of opposing views which is fine, that's one of the great things of this country, we can openly disagree without fear of persecution. All I ask is to read what I write and be respectful with your comments and I will do the same with your responses.
Dedicated to the Founding Fathers of the USA and all the men and women who have fought and in some cases died for the rights of all American citizens.
Followers
About Me
- Steve Avery
- NC, United States
- MMC(SS/SW) USN Retired, Currently working as a Truck Driver traveling the Nation with my wife as my teammate.
I have read, and now re-read, your blog with your comments. I tend to agree with all you have written and still can find room to discuss and disagree with many of the fine points. As you said, that is good and we all become better educated with good open and thoughtful discussion.
ReplyDeleteAt this stage in my life, I tend to regret that I paid so little attention to politics and what our collective government bodies were doing. Now I am interested and am finding that I (and many others), by our disinterest, have allowed our government to become corrupt and out of control.
We have grown into a land of people that believe that we must not be proud of and enjoy the fruits of our labors, but instead allow the government to take those fruits and distribute them to those that have not prospered as we have. We have the richest "poor" people in the world.
Can we turn this around? I believe so, but it will not be by putting a person on the Supreme Court of our land because she is a female and latino, rather than because she is a constitutional scholar.
It will not be by passing laws that are socialist in nature.
One of the sayings I heard many years ago and think of often is " you learn from your mistakes"
We should all, giant businesses, small mom and pop businesses, and indiviuals. be allowed to fail. As it is by failing we learn and prosper.
We have a government that more and more is not allowing people to fail. And by doing so is, failing it's duties itself.