Where's the Outrage?

[Teresa]

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_alinskys_rule.html

This letter was sent to the Wall Street Journal on August
8, 2008 by Alisa Wilson, Ph.D. Of Beverly Hills, CA

On July 31, 2008, the Wall Street Journal had an article titled, "Where's The Outrage?"

Really?

I can tell you where the outrage is. The outrage is here, in this middle-aged, well-educated, upper-middle class woman. The outrage is here, but I have no representation, no voice. The outrage is here, but no one is listening – for who am I?

I'm not a billionaire like George Soros that can fund an entire political movement.

I'm not a celebrity like Barbra Streisand that can garner the attention of the press to promote political candidates.

I'm not a film maker like Michael Moore or Al Gore that can deliver misleading movies to the public.

The outrage is here, but unlike those with money or power, I don't know how to reach those who feel similarly in order to effect change.

Why am I outraged? I am outraged that my country, the United States of America , is in a state of moral and ethical decline. There is no right or wrong anymore, just what's fair.

Is it fair that millions of Americans who overreached and borrowed more than they could afford are now being bailed out by the government and lending institutions to stave off foreclosure? Why shouldn't these people be made to pay the consequences for their poor judgment?

When my husband and I purchased our home, we were careful to purchase only what we could afford. Believe me, there are much larger, much nicer homes that I would have loved to have purchased. But, taking responsibility for my behavior and my life, I went with the house that we could afford, not the house that we couldn't afford. The notion of personal responsibility has all but died in our country.

I am outraged, that the country that welcomed my mother as an immigrant from Hitler's Nazi Germany and required that she and her family learn English now allows itself to be overrun with illegal immigrants and worse, caters to those illegal immigrants.

I am outraged that my hard-earned taxes help support those here illegally; That the Los Angeles Public School District is in such disarray that I felt it Incumbent to send my child to private school, that every time I go to the ATM, I see "do you want to continue in English or Spanish?" that every time I call the bank, the phone company, or similar business, I hear "press 1 for English or press
2 for Spanish." WHY? This is America, our common language is English and attempts to promote a bi- or multi-lingual society are sure to fail and to marginalize those who cannot communicate in English.

I am outraged at our country's weakness in the face of new threats on American traditions from Muslims. Just this week, Tyson's Food negotiated with its union to permit Muslims to have Eid-al-Fitr as a holiday instead of Labor Day. What am I missing? Yes, there is a large Somali Muslim population working at the Tyson's plant in Tennessee . Tennessee , last I checked, is still part of the United States . If Muslim's want to live and work here they should be required to live and work by our American Laws and not impose their will on our long history.

In the same week, Random House announced that they had indefinitely delayed the publication of "The Jewel of Medina," by Sherry Jones, a book about the life of Mohammed's wife, A'isha due to fear of retribution and violence by Muslims. When did we become a nation ruled by fear of what other immigrant groups want? It makes me so sad to see large corporations cave rather than stand proudly on the principles t hat built this country.

I am outraged because appeasement has never worked as a political policy, yet Appeasing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is exactly what we are trying to do. An excellent article, also published recently in the Wall Street Journal, went through over 20 years of history and why talking with Iran has been and will continue to be ineffective. Yet talk, with a madman no less, we continue to do. Have we so lost our moral compass and its ability to detect evil that we will not go in and destroy Iran's nuclear program? Would we rather wait for another Holocaust for the Jews – one which they would be unlikely to survive! ? When does it end?

As if the battle for good and evil isn't enough, now come the Environmentalists who are so afraid of global warming that they want to put a bag tax on grocery bags in California; to eliminate Mylar balloons; to establish something as insidious as the recycle police in San Francisco. I do my share for the environment – I recycle, I use water wisely, I installed an energy efficient air conditioning unit.

But when and where does the lunacy stop? Ahmadinejad wants to wipe Israel off the map, the California economy is being overrun by illegal immigrants, and the United States of America no longer knows right from wrong; good from evil. So what does California do? Tax grocery bags!

So, America, although I can tell you where the outrage is, this one middle-aged, well-educated, upper middle class woman is powerless to do anything about it. I don't even feel like my vote counts because I am so outnumbered by those who disagree with me.

PS: Boycott Tyson foods!

Alisa Wilson, Ph.D. Beverly Hills , California

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html 

[pam]

PS: Boycott Tyson foods!

Good points all of em. I already DO boycott Tyson, 1 because I used to work there 2 because I live in the same neck of the woods as some of their plants and they ain't real particular about pollution. I seriously look for the tyson name and don't buy it if it's on there or even if I THINK it's on there.

[pepelect]

I don't understand why you complain about immigration in the same way as changing a holiday for the religious group. I have worked at Tyson, Farmland, Cereal Foods, Cargill, Bunge, and National Beef.  White people can't and won't do what the minorities will.  It is not about exploiting them it is about lazy, good for nothing white trash.  People think they are too good to pick up meat off the table and cut it up 2000 times a day.   It will hurt my presious little fingers.  I have never worked with a full crew of all caucasion in any plant.  The white trash has been bumped up the food chain and are the foreman.  But if you want to get any thing done you don't call on them.   

I am as just as white, nearly as bald, and bull headed as any neonazi but work is work and lazy is lazy.  California deserves shopping bag taxes.  Extra fuel taxes.  Recycle police.  They give us the stupidest waste of time ever invented TV.  If we would tax the television programming that the nuckleheads in California come up with every time something so off ball and crazy  comes on we could buy Canada.   Why does every show have to be about stupid?  Reality TV?  Really, you want us to watch us watch us?  It is like going to the state fair.

Go ahead boycott the largest meat and chicken processer in the world.   We don't need to eat anyway.  We will all be eating Chinese soon.

[pam]

Dude I worked at Tyson, Georges, IBP...I don't buy Tyson because they pump their stuff full of water and fat to make it weigh more period.

I'm surprised more people that have worked in packin plants ain't vegetarians to be honest.

As for the fact that illegals do jobs most americans won't do, I've been sayin that for the last ten years. White people CAN do em BECAUSE I"VE DONE MOST OF EM, from pickin fruit to diggin ditches to workin in packin plants. I am disgusted by the work ethic of people younger than me. They have never been taught the principle that if you take a mans money you give him a days work, not three hours of kinda workin and 14 breaks.

So save your rant for somebody who needs it, I EARNED the right to boycott Tysons if I feel like it.