I can't help wondering, though, just how free we are when our jobs are being outsourced overseas, and when our access to health care, retirement benefits, and educational opportunities are being threatened and targeted for reduction. I wonder just how safe we are when police, fire, rescue services, and services for the sick and the poor, are being targeted for reduction.
What price are our fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, and sons and daughters paying to protect a country whose value is diminishing at the hands of greedy, unpatriotic multinational corporations, and the politicians, lobbyists, and judges who protect them? In March, a Pulitzer prize-winning novel by Geraldine Brooks, the main character, Reverend March, a father and anti-slavery abolitionist serving in the Union army, asks himself, "If our forefathers make the world awry; must our children be the ones who pay to right it?" Unless we change the direction of our country, it is our children who will pay most for the actions of those who are taking down our country and reaping the spoils. We may not all be serving in the military, but as patriotic Americans, we can help to keep our country free and safe for ourselves and our children. One thing we can do, as we celebrate Father's Day and the days of summer to follow, is to buy and promote "Made in USA" goods and products. Diane Sawyer and ABC News are doing their part to encourage and promote "Made in USA" products with its "Made in America" program. The program is scheduled to be broadcast all of this coming week. To get more information on this program, go to the "Made in America" this week's recommendation below.
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Blog Sources:
March, Geraldine Brooks - published and printed in the USA by Penguin Books, New York
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/MadeInAmerica/
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