Are We Doing Any Better?
 
July 7, 2009

With the Fourth of July quickly approaching, it is best to take stock of where we are as a country. It is after all the day that will go down in history as our country’s birthday – the day that we won our independence and were able to make our own laws. These laws would be just and they would be fair, and they would not infringe on the rights of their citizens.
 
But have we come as far as we could have in the past 233 years? We said that we did not want a dictatorship any longer and so the laws would be for the people, by the people. But is this what we have? There are those that argue that we have simply come around full circle – where we have a government that acts without the best interests of the people, and that it is only now with a new administration that we are coming away from that.
 
There may be truth in that, but overall, for the most part we are still better of than we were. Do the majority of Americans want online gambling to be legalized? Yes. Is it? No. This is a problem that must be overcome, as online gambling should be legalized, but the last government felt that they had to essentially protect us from ourselves and the new government is so busy trying to fix the mess that our economy is in that there has not been much talk about online gambling legalization except for a few key people.
 
But online gambling aside, we are in a better place. You can worship as you choose, you can speak your mind in public, and you can have a say in what government officials get those jobs and which ones don’t. Look at all of the countries that still don’t have those rights – one would venture to say that for all our problems we are still the best place to live on Earth.

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