First, thank you for reading, and welcome. This blog has been milling around in my brain for quite some time now. I’d see something on the news, or be thinking about a particular subject, and have a desire to not only document my thoughts, but share them with others and hopefully have others share with me how they felt on the same subject(s). I was finally pushed over the edge by my frustration with the government, and the direction our country seems to be headed as of late.  Now is the time, before things get worse, to get the ball rolling on real change. Not the supposed change our political leaders talk about all the time, real change.

Before you get all excited and think this site is about a peoples revolution, or class warfare, it goes deeper than that. This site will mostly be about ideas. What needs to be changed? What kind of change is needed? How can we make that change happen? I’ll be laying out answers to those questions, on a variety of topics, based on my own personal opinion. Some political, some religious, some neither, but instead just more examples of things about our current state of society that frustrates me to no end.

I will be sharing, bluntly, my feelings and opinions on these subjects. They are not intended to be taken personally, but some surely will be. I invite and encourage everyone who reads along, to comment, share your own opinions, even debate, with myself, or other posters, on the topics covered. However, I require that any such debate be civil. Don’t take an attack on a particular stance as an attack on you personally, and on the same note, don’t make things personal by attacking another person directly.

As an opener, rather than start with a particular subject, I wanted to talk a bit about myself so people will know where I’m coming from. I’ll share some of my basic beliefs, and we’ll go from there.

I’m 39 years old, married for almost 16 years. My wife and I have 3 children and exist solidly in the middle class. I currently live in the south, in a modest 3 bedroom brick house with my family, a dog and a cat. But I moved here from new england, where I lived for almost 20 years. I’ve seen and experienced life at both ends of the spectrum from a political and societal point of view, liberal, conservative, democratic, republican. My father is retired military, and I spent the first portion of my life moving every couple of years from one base to another, including living abroad in two other countries for several years. My parents divorced when I was a teen, which really isn’t unusual for people in my generation. I started working when I was 14, not because my family was poor, but just because I wanted money so I could buy the things I wanted. In my adult life, I’ve worked jobs with salaries that have ranged from borderline poverty levels to “upper”middle class. For the past 15 or so years, I’ve worked in the IT field within a wide variety of environments. From industrial to municipal, from commercial to medical, and along the way, I’ve gained some unique perspective into how wildly different things are run in various sectors.

My upbringing was Catholic, and while I am solidly Christian, I think my beliefs are more difficult to assign to any particular church. If you’d asked me a few years ago about my political beliefs, I would have told you I am a (fiscally) conservative republican. Nowadays, I believe I’d tell you the political party that most closely fits my beliefs is Libertarian. Yes, the legalize pot people. No, I don’t smoke it, and no, that’s not why I agree with their politics. The Libertarian party is primarily about minimizing the role of the government in the lives of the average American. For the most part, they stand for freedom, and for the original constitution as interpreted using common sense, not political judgement. The truth is though, I have lost all faith in our current government, the various political parties and our general political system as it exists today, at all levels, local, state and especially federal.

So that’s me. I’m not an extremist in any sense. I’m just a middle class family man who sees the country he loves swirling it’s way further and further into the toilet thanks to leadership that puts their own personal greed ahead of the best interest of the people they “serve”.  

Thanks again for visiting and reading this blog. I’m already working on my first entry, and will have it along soon.