I'm sure that everyone has thoughts on why we have so much crime in America and I have my thoughts as well. Maybe many people don't agree with my way of thinking, but I am a senior citizen, a veteran, and I love my country. I will say what I think and if anyone doesn't like it, I could care less.
I think there is so much crime in America because of the lack of education. We spend more money in this country on wars, giving tax breaks to the super rich, and giving foreign aid to countries that hate us. If the U.S. took that money and put it into education, made our schools better, and provided a college education to everyone that wanted to go to college we would see less poverty. More and better jobs would be created in our country, crime would decline like we have never seen before, the economy would be better.
Many crimes in the U.S. are not because people are bad. It is because they are hungry, without a job, and they are desperate. When people become desperate they will do things that they don't want to do, but they need to survive. Nothing breeds crime like a lack of education.
It saddens me to see that our government will give tax breaks to the super rich and multi-billion dollar corporation while we have wide a spread homeless problem in America and one in six children don't know where their next meal is coming from. We need to elect more people like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren that knows what the real problems are.
When we get a top notch education system in this country that supports our teachers, gives our children the chance for a higher education, we will see job growth, less poverty, and less crime. We should not be spending more money on prisons than we are on education. Our government's way of thinking needs to make a 180 degree turn to make this country great again. The good life should be for everyone, not just the top 1%, this is a failure of America. Vote for people that want to spend more on education.
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Friday, May 29, 2015
Monday, May 25, 2015
A TIME TO REFLECT BACK
It has been a month since I have written a blog post. It's not that I didn't want to, but I had surgery in the middle of April, then I had a catheter in me for two weeks. When it was removed I had a bad infection so I was on an antibiotic for another two weeks. I am finally getting back to normal and it is time to do some writing.
After the operation and during the recovery I felt pretty sick. It gave me a time to reflect back on my life, the good times and the bad times. I grew up pretty poor, not as poor as some but we didn't have some things in the early years of my life. We didn't have indoor plumbing for I guess the first five or six years of my life. That meant any water we used was carried in buckets from a sand spring. There was also the outhouse. I was afraid to go out there at night in the winter because I thought my butt would freeze fast and no one would find me until morning. I guess that is a funny thought now, but in the mind of a little boy it was scary.
I did alright in school, but I didn't apply myself very much. Maybe if I did I would have been more successful later in life, who knows. I liked school and made some good friends that I enjoyed being with. My favorite subject was math. I guess that is a good thing, because I worked thirty years in manufacturing and I used math every day. I don't think I was a bad kid in school, but I will say I was more mischievous. I did spend some time in Mr. Polumbo's office, the assistant principal. I did get suspended from school once for three days, something that I wasn't proud of and now realize just how stupid I was at a young age. I wish I could change that experience, but it did happen and it is past history. Maybe that made me a better person later in life. After all I do believe that people learn from their mistakes.
A couple of years after high school the Vietnam War was in full force. Many of my classmates were getting drafted and I knew that if I didn't enlist I would soon be drafted. I enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and spent my time in Texas, Florida, and the Philippines. I loved the Philippines and was a flight mechanic on C-47 aircraft that flew mail, food, and booze to remote areas of the Philippines where Americans were stationed. I must say that the Philippines is the most beautiful country I have ever seen. It is made up of over 7,000 islands. I met a Filipino girl at the Airmen's Club on Clark AFB that became my wife. We have now been married over 44 years, have two great children, five grand kids, and one great granddaughter. Four years in the Air Force and I was only in Vietnam for four hours. How did I avoid serving in harm's way. I will never know, I guess God was looking out for me. So many men and women from America died in that war. Why did it have to happen?
As I neared retirement I started to write short stories and was rejected by fourteen magazines until, Cher Valentino, the founder and editor of Our USA Magazine saw something in my writing that she enjoyed. I will be forever grateful for her kindness and inspiration. She gave me the inspiration to write three novels, two of them published to this date. It also encouraged me to write this blog. Writing is something that gets into your blood, it is a passion, that won't leave a writer.
Yes, I am retired now and it seems like more time is spent at the doctor's off. I went sixty three years without a surgery and now I have had two in the last three years. Retired life is good though, I go to bed when I want, get up when I want, go places when my wife and I want, and enjoy life with a little beagle that we adopted.
Yes, I have had ups and downs in my life like anyone. I have made mistakes that I regret. I guess everyone has done something that is wrong, but will make them a better person later in life. I have my friends in my personal life and many friends on facebook that seems like family. I have become friends with several other authors, something that I cherish.
I have had several health challenges in my life, but I always come out of it better than I was before. Life is good, life is great, life is an adventure that I cherish every day for I realize that none of us knows when we will take our last breath on earth and enter the promised land. I want to thank all of my friends and my family because you are all a big part of my life.
Author's page: amazon.com/author/larry_w_fish
My blog: thoughtsbyfish.blogspot.com
Copyright Larry W. Fish 2015
After the operation and during the recovery I felt pretty sick. It gave me a time to reflect back on my life, the good times and the bad times. I grew up pretty poor, not as poor as some but we didn't have some things in the early years of my life. We didn't have indoor plumbing for I guess the first five or six years of my life. That meant any water we used was carried in buckets from a sand spring. There was also the outhouse. I was afraid to go out there at night in the winter because I thought my butt would freeze fast and no one would find me until morning. I guess that is a funny thought now, but in the mind of a little boy it was scary.
I did alright in school, but I didn't apply myself very much. Maybe if I did I would have been more successful later in life, who knows. I liked school and made some good friends that I enjoyed being with. My favorite subject was math. I guess that is a good thing, because I worked thirty years in manufacturing and I used math every day. I don't think I was a bad kid in school, but I will say I was more mischievous. I did spend some time in Mr. Polumbo's office, the assistant principal. I did get suspended from school once for three days, something that I wasn't proud of and now realize just how stupid I was at a young age. I wish I could change that experience, but it did happen and it is past history. Maybe that made me a better person later in life. After all I do believe that people learn from their mistakes.
A couple of years after high school the Vietnam War was in full force. Many of my classmates were getting drafted and I knew that if I didn't enlist I would soon be drafted. I enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and spent my time in Texas, Florida, and the Philippines. I loved the Philippines and was a flight mechanic on C-47 aircraft that flew mail, food, and booze to remote areas of the Philippines where Americans were stationed. I must say that the Philippines is the most beautiful country I have ever seen. It is made up of over 7,000 islands. I met a Filipino girl at the Airmen's Club on Clark AFB that became my wife. We have now been married over 44 years, have two great children, five grand kids, and one great granddaughter. Four years in the Air Force and I was only in Vietnam for four hours. How did I avoid serving in harm's way. I will never know, I guess God was looking out for me. So many men and women from America died in that war. Why did it have to happen?
As I neared retirement I started to write short stories and was rejected by fourteen magazines until, Cher Valentino, the founder and editor of Our USA Magazine saw something in my writing that she enjoyed. I will be forever grateful for her kindness and inspiration. She gave me the inspiration to write three novels, two of them published to this date. It also encouraged me to write this blog. Writing is something that gets into your blood, it is a passion, that won't leave a writer.
Yes, I am retired now and it seems like more time is spent at the doctor's off. I went sixty three years without a surgery and now I have had two in the last three years. Retired life is good though, I go to bed when I want, get up when I want, go places when my wife and I want, and enjoy life with a little beagle that we adopted.
Yes, I have had ups and downs in my life like anyone. I have made mistakes that I regret. I guess everyone has done something that is wrong, but will make them a better person later in life. I have my friends in my personal life and many friends on facebook that seems like family. I have become friends with several other authors, something that I cherish.
I have had several health challenges in my life, but I always come out of it better than I was before. Life is good, life is great, life is an adventure that I cherish every day for I realize that none of us knows when we will take our last breath on earth and enter the promised land. I want to thank all of my friends and my family because you are all a big part of my life.
Author's page: amazon.com/author/larry_w_fish
My blog: thoughtsbyfish.blogspot.com
Copyright Larry W. Fish 2015
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