Just A Little About Me

I think for at least a small part people are a product of there Environment. That doesn't mean that they can't change, or we should use it for an Excuse for some crime they have committed. It's not a reason for people to have some ridiculous reasoning on a subject. I Do think that we are influenced by the way we are raised.

That may be why I think like I do. Not that I have not formed my own opinions. But I have some reference to compare today's world by.

I was raised in a little small town in rural Illinois. It was a farming community, a world away from the Country we see today. It was a place where people did, what they said they would do. Where a hand shake was as good as a contract. When you felt safe sending your Children outside to play, and didn't see them again until dark. The worst you worried about was that they came home 30 minutes after dark not before. We didn't have to have the government legislate a national night out. Everyone got out all the time to visit the neighbors. If you were sick someone showed up with chicken soup. If you were out of a job, someone showed up with a bag of groceries. You were raised by everyone in the neighborhood. If a friend of my parents saw me doing something that I shouldn't have, they stopped me and said something. No one thought of filing a lawsuit because my feelings were hurt. As a matter of fact my feelings got hurt on a regular basis, and not only my feeling, but my backside as well. It was a World where everyone worked together and built the greatest nation on earth.

I was very active growing up, I played sports and was always doing something. There was never a dull moment. Being so active it is hard just to sit quietly and watch the world go by. I have always wanted to get involved.

It seems as I get older I look back and remember that people then worked together to build a great Society, today people work together to change the society that has made us so successful. When the Iranians took over the Embassy and took some of my Countries people hostage during the Carter Administration, I was unable to sit still and watch the news. I joined the U.S. Army Military Police and served six years.

During that time I was privileged to serve under and watch Ronald Reagan one of the greatest Presidents that ever lived. I watched as he took an economy that was in trouble. Taxes high, business slowing down, and built jobs and one of the greatest expansions of the economy ever.

In the articles contained in this blog you will read what I think. If you disagree, that is ok you have the right to be wrong, is this a great Country or what?


And that's what I think!

Phil Haikey