"Deconstructing America's Team!"

Back in 2005, my beloved Chicago White Sox won the World Series. I often look back on that season with fond memories. I waited since 1959 to see my Sox in the World Series again. Back then, nobody had a device to home record television events, or I would have had some video memories of the “Go Go White Sox”. I have some video and printed memories of the ’05 White Sox that I treasure. I have video and printed memories of my 1985 Chicago Bears, and I have numerous videos of those great Chicago Bulls years; all of these things are important to me. I remember players’ names, and specific plays with amazing recall (I don’t remember much college Spanish though).

I remember the dismantling of those great teams too. I remember Billy Pierce and Early Wynn leaving the Sox, and Jim McMahon and Wilbur Marshall leaving the Bears; and of course, Michael Jordan leaving the Bulls; each departure meant the end of an era for Chicago sports fans. When Mike McCaskey fired Mike Ditka, he had to have 24 hour security for quite some time, as irate fans sent him thousands of “threatening messages”. It is a shame to watch great and mighty teams deconstructed by some poor management decisions. Once a great team is taken apart, it never seems to recover; like “Humpty Dumpty”, they can’t be put back together again.

As everybody on earth knows by now, America is in fiscal jeopardy because of 36 months of radical spending and socialistic policies from Barack Obama and his minions. After the mid-term Congressional elections, the Democrat controlled House was turned over to the Republicans and TEA Party, in an effort to try to restore some fiscal responsibility to American government. Because of that November “house cleaning”, Barack Obama and his free spending friends suddenly became “fiscally responsible”, and went on a campaign to trim government fat.: this sounds like a good idea on its face, until we come to the realization that we are allowing a bunch of left-wing, anti-military, socialist leaning idiots make the cuts.

What could be the absolute worst place to cut spending? Could we cut foreign aid to unfriendly countries; could we trim some “pork projects” from a congressman’s district trying to buy some votes? Could we eliminate some of that “double-dip” pensioning that is costing tax payers millions of dollars? Wait, I know where we should cut budget radically, DEFENSE! Of course, we should cut funding that will directly affect the security of every citizen in the United States. It is much more important to supply the United Nations with 22% of its budget, than protect America’s citizens properly.

The Army announced that it will cut several combat brigades from 45 to 32, in a “restructuring initiative”. I must say, again, these are “combat brigades”, the “point of the spear” in American defense.

America is now entering an era of an unstable Middle-East with several countries getting leadership that, at its best, is questionable, and at its worst, could be disastrous. Iran is on the verge of nuclear weapons acquisition, and their leader is unstable enough to use them.

America’s military was addressed as the “World’s Best and Most Capable”; I stress the word “was” in the above statement. If these cuts continue, America’s “all-star” military will be “deconstructed” and may never be the same again. We cannot continue along this path, following “weak management”, or soon, all we will have left, are “memories on a video” of a formerly “great team”!