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Published on Thursday, 29 December 2011 18:10

As I write this article, I am watching my daughter wrap some last minute Christmas gifts for family friends and I can’t help but wonder what the country will look like when she is watching her children wrap Christmas gifts? For those of us who are old enough, we will even recognize our great land?

There is so much to do to turn our country around that the task can - at times - seem daunting.

Over the past three years, we have watched in horror as our President did everything he could to take away the freedoms and opportunities afforded us by our founding fathers and the U.S. Constitution. Whether it was through government ownership of private businesses (i.e. the bailout of General Motors) or forcing Americans to buy something (i.e. health insurance)… some of the most un-American ideals have been perpetrated on us in a very short period of time.

Not only will our President not allow us to drill for new oil under our very feet, but his administration is also making it even more difficult to produce the oil, which is already being drilled. This is killing jobs during a time when our economy is reeling from the highest unemployment rate in recent history. It is also allowing terrorist nations to hold us captive because of our dependence on them for our energy needs, not to mention increasing the cost of everything we buy during one of the worst recessions in American history.

If that is not enough, just this past week President Obama said he would withhold federal funds used to provide healthcare to our Texas citizens, unless we agree to use Texas taxpayer money to pay for elective abortions. This is an insult to Texas and a direct violation of the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

My colleagues and I fought nobly during session to ensure that no Texas taxpayer dollars were used to fund abortion clinics and now with a swipe of a pen, Obama seeks to dictate from on high what our state can and can’t do with our own money.

The task seems daunting, I know. Overwhelming at times. But we can not be discouraged, nor can we be dismayed. This is the time for men and women of courage to stand up and be counted. This is the time that will define the very future of our great land.

Will it be easy? No. But to not act is to concede that our children and grandchildren will not live in the same United States that we grew up in. I for one refuse to teach my grandchildren how we lost our freedom by doing nothing, to tell them that our country wasn’t taken from us through violence, but instead we gave it away through complacency. Donte said, “the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, do nothing.”

Reflecting during this holiday season, I believe we are in a time of great moral crisis. Our current leadership is openly forcing us away from what our country was founded upon – personal responsibility, freedom, opportunity, and the God of the Bible. If we want our children and grandchildren to live in the country we grew up in, we can not afford to “do nothing”.

The task is daunting, but we are a strong people. May 2012 be the year that we stood up and were counted…the year that we took our country back.

May God bless you during this holiday season, and may He bless us patriots as we fight to Take Our Country Back. No – as we fight to give our country back – back to God from whom all blessings flow.