BY DR. MARK TIGER EDMONDS
Special to The Lions’ Pride

America, you have to stop buying over-priced, excessive crap you don’t need with money you don’t have. Right after over-population, this is the main problem. If it weren’t, we wouldn’t be in the economic mess we’re in. If it weren’t, our dumps, junkyards, and landfills, wouldn’t be bursting at the seams.

America, you should stop rushing to help victims of natural disasters half-way around the world. We’ve got plenty of our own victims right here in the U.S.A. who need the help. It would seem that the folks in New Orleans and Iowa and California should come way before the people in places we can neither pronounce nor find on a map.

America, you need to stop taking in the foreign, the poor, and the downtrodden yearning to take advantage of America and make money. Far too many of these people are not making a contribution, neither to the society, nor to the economy. Far too many of these reluctant citizens are breaking laws, refusing to learn the native language, breeding like rabbits, and sucking our resources, including the welfare and penal systems, dry. America, you are already a badly over-populated country.

America, you ought to stop making war and being the bully and policeman to the rest of the world. Chances are those people really don’t want to be Christians or democratic or deeply in debt. They probably don’t want Starbucks, inane television shows, poorly educated inconsiderate children, or fast food. They likely don’t want to be militant and powerful either.

After that, America, you need to stop rushing in to help the people you’ve recently made war on. Once they get back on track, they will make war on us, either economically or militarily.

America, you have to stop trying to be the model for the rest of the world. Other cultures don’t need their corrupt political leaders in business suits. They don’t need illiterate, badly behaving children; cell phones; war profiteers; rap music; an air force; untalented, badly behaving celebrities; nuclear weapons; video games; specially trained assassin forces; gas guzzling, polluting SUVs; gigantic, inefficient houses; or Mart-Mart Stores.

America, you should get back to producing your own goods and services. Americans should be driving American cars, eating American-grown food, working on American-made computers, using American tools and American materials, wearing American clothes, using American bullets in American guns when we do go to war.

America should be educating its own citizens to be our doctors and scientists and engineers. Americans ought to be able to get their medical service from American doctors, their pills from American pharmacists, and their bills from an American company. Americans ought not have to push ONE to speak English.