Change? Ha.

Just the mere 'idea' of this "3-year freeze on military pay" makes me sick.

My husband has 3 years left on his 5 year contract with the Marine Corps. Where would this 'idea' leave us, if it followed through and got past Senate and the House? It would leave us, as a military family, behind!!!

We scrap as it is! It's hard enough to live on the housing, food, and basic pay that we get now! And if it's frozen for 3 years!?!?! Hello! Yes, the economy needs to get better, but this is -NOT- the way you do it! You can't just freeze your military's pay!!! Their families would get left behind as the cost of living continues to go up. We don't live in the lap of luxury as it is, so it would only go down hill!

Besides...

Military doesn't get paid nearly enough for the jobs that they do. I mean, come on!!! They risk their lives for each and every American out there. They risk their lives and get paid next to nothing, while your favorite professional sports players, singers, and actors/actresses are all making enough to last them 10 lifetimes?

Also...

Another 'idea' to cut the government's deficit is to get rid of some of the Marine Corps aircraft. That sounds asinine to me. Plane asinine!!

My husband is not at all happy with this so called idea and neither am I. It doesn't make since and it is not fair to your nation to freeze pay and create more ciaos amongst the military members. It's not easy as it is, living this lifestyle, so go ahead, make it harder on us by making it even -more- difficult on us financially. Thank you. -sarcasm-.

It's not entirely the military's fault that the government is in such debt. They've always been in debt. So I guess in order to get them out of that debt, it's time to use us as pee-ons. Go figure.

Is this the change you were talking about, Mr. Obama? I hope you're happy, America.

Click here for the article that I read.

God Bless America

So, I'm hot about more then one topic tonight, but I can really only vent about one of these topics, since I am -still- not sure who is reading my posts. If you catch my drift.

Over the past couple weeks I've been a regular watching the local news. I'm not sure why? It's not like I will be or have been living here that long to really care about what's going on, but I still tend to turn it on none-the-less. Anyway, you may have heard about the kids wearing American Flags on Cinco De Mayo? And the teachers made them turn their shirts inside out? Ha, yeah, that was local news for me. Go figure.

But, along the same lines, I saw where a child had drawn an American Flag and wrote "God Bless America" on it and the art teacher told her she couldn't draw or write that because it was "offensive". I'm sorry, but seriously?! We live in America and no matter what you say, we are allowed to take pride in this country. I know what you're thinking...but, she was probably saying that it was offensive because the child had written "God Bless America". Well, I'm a Christian and I'm pretty positive "under God" is still in the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" is still on our currency. Again, I know what you're thinking...but what about separation of church and state? Well, I'm sorry, still, I see no problem with it at all.

Then again, this is coming from a girl who's class prayed before the school day started and we said the Pledge of Allegiance every day. We even took turns going to the office to say it over the intercom to the entire school! I looked forward to my turn every time it came around. Of course, that was back in the day. But, was it really that far back in the day?? No, it wasn't. I graduated in 2006, and I think we stopped doing these "churchly" things when I was in, errr, about 6th grade. So, I guess it was about 10 years ago, but still!

Is it just me? Is it just because I am a Christian and the wife of a Marine that I feel this way? I just have so much pride for this nation and I am proud that I am a Christian. Then again, all of us have our own opinion, this is just mine. :)