I'm scared. Very scared.

*Deep breath*

I'm scared. Very scared the direction our country is taking. My goal with this blog was to provide my patients, my beloved state of Texas, even the world with accurate and current information regarding everyones health specifically of the foot and ankle.
After seeing the National news the last two evenings, I realize that we, as Americans are allowing our government to not just socialize, but to allow our country to become communistic in principle and practice.
First, I can not believe that our government is now going to control 50% of General Motors with the Unions controlling the other 40%. What happened to free enterprise? I blame everyone associated with this company from the top executives to the line workers. They did it to themselves. Let them go bankrupt. Will it cost people their jobs? Of course. But we at least don't have a federal government, which knows nothing about free enterprise, which creates no income, dictating how to build a car. The government only gets their money from those of use who think freely, work hard, put our heart and souls on the line to better ourselves, our families, our community and our country.
Secondly, I just saw this evening that Arlin Spector, the turncoat conservative has switched to the Democratic Party. How scary is this. He could not win re-election in his own state so instead of standing on his political convictions, he allowed his self-interests dictate that 'his' party was no longer representing him. What does this mean? It means that with two independent seats that generally vote with liberals, the Democrats now control 59 Senate seats. If Dan Frankin wins his seat, the Democrats will control 60 seats preventing a filabuster by the conservatives or Republicans. This means that the Democrats... Obama, Congress, the Senate can push through any legislation they choose, and we can't stop them.
I pray, yes... I pray, to God every night that America will come to their senses. That there is not to much damage to our free enterprise system. That there is not to much damage to our personal freedom. That America can remain strong and return to our principles as outlined by our founding fathers and return control to the individual, to our states, as it was intended and hopefully can vote these (explicative) out of office.
Until then... I am very, very scared.

"The journey of life is taken one step at a time... none of them should be painful." G.M. Barclay, DPM, AACFAS