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My Trip to Washington DC Opens Eyes

March 19, 2010 on 12:54 pm | In General Posts | No Comments

I just recently got back from an enjoyable vacation to our nation’s capital with my family. It’s always good taking time off to visit other parts of the country.

I got to see many interesting sites and enjoyed lots of good food (I LOVE seafood, and the seafood, especially the crabs, in DC are great,) there were two attractions that really made me stop to think.

During our tour of the nation’s capital (thanks to one of my senators, Kay Bailey Hutchison,) I picked up on something profound that was stated in the introductory movie which opened our tour.

In the movie, the narrator stated that our congressional leaders are sent to Washington to do the will of the people.

This is an idea that sadly many of our congress men and women seem to have forgotten, as evidenced by the attempt to force a health care bill on the country that most citizens do not want or need. Maybe our congressional representatives would do well to watch that movie regularly and refresh themselves on just why they are elected to represent us.

I also saw a wonderful exhibit on Nazi propaganda at the National Holocaust Museum. At that exhibit, there were stories of how the Nazis used propaganda to take over Germany at the end of World War I leading up to World War II.

For example, Hitler and the Nazi party promised everyone jobs (to bring down unemployment,) healthcare, and promised to control the media by taking it over so that only opinions favorable to the movement would be allowed in print or on the radio, effectively silencing the opposition.

Kinda sounds similar to what’s going on today in our country doesn’t it?