James R. Lightfoot, Lightfoot: A look back into the future
Have you ever felt as if you were very blessed? I know some folks might say “lucky” instead of blessed, but I don’t believe in luck. Things happen for a reason. A reason that only God knows.
I was blessed to have taken my first breath in the Florence Crittenden Home for Unwed Mothers in Sioux City, Iowa almost exactly one year before the outbreak of World War II.
My birth mother thought my life was just as important as hers. At the age of 19, she knew she was not in a position to raise a child. That left her two choices: have me aborted or put me up for adoption. She chose the latter, rather than going through life carrying the load of two bad choices and mistakes.
- Monday, June 28, 2021
“You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won't have to fight you. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.”
Quote by Nikita Khrushchev, successor to Joseph Stalin as head of the Russian Government.
There is another chilling quote from this Communist leader that is shrouded in a bit of controversy of whether Khrushchev actually uttered the words.
“America, we will bury you without firing a shot!”
Now that we have the Democrat debates underway it’s time to turn our attention to carefully listen to what the potential candidates have to say.
Are they talking about issues that are really important to the nation? Or, are they talking about proposed plans and schemes that will get them elected?
Out here in the real world much of what we hear is a bit confusing and is difficult to understand.
Stop it, children; just stop it! No, those remarks are not aimed at a group of kindergarteners acting up on the playground.
They are aimed directly at the Members of Congress that are hell-bent on destroying each other rather than do the job they were hired to do. Listening to what is coming out of Washington, DC sounds more like a bunch of spoiled children in a sandbox fighting over a toy than a group of mature adults elected to do some of the most important work in the world!
Let me preface this with a couple of personal remarks. First, I’m just an old country boy that grew up in the 1950s. Second, I hold no degrees from famous institutions of higher learning. Third, I am a strong believer in our maker God and His son Jesus Christ. Fourth, It is my belief that we have to make our own way in this world, the exception being those with mental and physical handicaps; and these are people we need to help.
Let’s assume you are having coffee with some of your favorite buddies down at the corner café. In the course of conversation one of your friends says, “America is the source of most of the world’s ills: political, economic, and environmental.”
Whoa! What did he say? Yes, you heard it right, “America is the source of most of the world’s ills: political, economic, and environmental.”
As a retired Member of Congress (1985-97), my heart breaks for what we are leaving our kids and grandchildren. We have failed to keep our country together.
We have been shamed into letting happen what has taken place with our culture for fear of offending someone, either personally or as a group.
