I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. Every day, I’d start my school day by reciting those words. I have heard people say it was no longer done in our schools so I searched the internet and still see that it is the same today. Of course, I knew that because my wife has been a teacher in Florida and Wisconsin. Can you force someone to say the pledge? Since 1943 the Supreme Court ruled that you can’t. I agree with that ruling. Making someone say the Pledge of Allegiance is like making someone pray. If they don’t believe in it then it has no meaning. In a free country, someone should not be made to pledge something they don’t believe in, if they are made to then we are not a free country. When I say the pledge, I don’t say the words “under god” because I don’t believe it to be true and wasn’t part of the real pledge in the first place. Those words were added during the Eisenhower Administration in the 1950s. I do believe in the pledge but part of being a t...
Is this chaos what the American people voted for last November? I thought the issue was cheaper eggs. I thought Bidenomics, as the Republicans called it, was ruining the country by destroying the economy. Now they are saying the “Bird Flu” makes eggs so expensive. When Biden was President, it was because of Bidenomics but now that the Republicans are in the White House it is because of the “Bird Flu”. Now it appears the economy that the Democrats were ruining was fine after all. Since Trump took office, they have talked about everything but the economy. All of a sudden, we need to have Greenland. All of a sudden, we need to have Canada as our 51st state. All of a sudden, we are going to take back the Panama Canal. The Republicans didn’t run on any of these issues. They ran on the state of the economy. They ran on inflation. From day one they were going to lower prices they blamed the Democrats and Biden for not controlling. Since the election, we have not seen anything being do...