Onward and upward to year 250

"This next year is going to be a whopper. Happy times are here again. America is better, stronger, and on a fixed course of freedom. Even though we still have some malcontents, caterwauling about how unfair this country is, their voices are slowly be drowned out. By whom? By the red, white and blue patriots and citizens."

I think I might have told this story before. Shortly after we got married, some old college friends invited us to an "America 200" party. It was at somebodies' cabin up in northern Minnesota, and for the weekend of the 4th of July, our task was to drink 200 cans of beer. In our somewhat immature twenty something minds, it was a good way to celebrate this milestone birthday of our country. But drinking 200 cans of beer between fifteen people, meant beer for breakfast, lunch, dinner and beyond. It was lunacy - but fun.

Now here we are, almost fifty years later, getting ready for the 250th birthday of this great nation. After yesterday, my thoughts were simple - how in the world could we top the 249th celebration? I mean, yesterday was a doozie. From passing the BBB the day before, signing it into law yesterday, the fly overs, the fireworks, the everything. I know our RV park got pretty wild - Americana was breaking out all over the place.

But before that happens, we already had the 250th birthday of the Army. In October, we will celebrate the 250th birthday of our great Navy. Then I took a pause to think. With all this going on, with the 250th birthday of America coming up, just look at how things have turned around in our country in less than six months of Trump's second term. The metrics are staggering good. Now with the BBB being signed, they are about to get a whole lot better.

This reminds me so much of Ronald Reagan's first term. The economy was a mess, as Jimmy Carter took his foot off the pedal (so to speak). Thus, to get things jump started, we needed to spend a lot of money in a hurry. That was then, and this is now. Much of the new spending in the BBB was remedy dollars for the almost destruction of this country under Biden. Sorry - truth hurts. But we need our border totally fixed, our defense department catching up to the Chinese, and our people having more money in their pockets to offset the Biden inflation problem.

This next year is going to be a whopper. Happy times are here again. America is better, stronger, and on a fixed course of freedom. Even though we still have some malcontents, caterwauling about how unfair this country is, their voices are slowly be drowned out. By whom? By the red, white and blue patriots and citizens.

What am I really thinking about? America is for people who love liberty and freedom. It is for people who love our flag, our heritage. To quote an old bumper sticker from yesteryear, "America - love it or leave it". Truer today, than ever before.