I grew up in South Africa and loved my country. I moved back when I was 16.


Six weeks after I got back, I was treated to the sight of 4 of my fellow citizens being gunned down on the Kent State campus.


Things have gotten nothing but worse. To me, things have gotten off track.


What happened to "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country". This can be understood as ask not what people can do for you but what can you do for people.


We have lost our way. I look around and see so many people that seem to think I've got mine, I'm doing ok and the hell with the rest of you. And you know who epitomizes this point of view? The peanut in the white house. I'm sorry but he does not deserve the title of president.


The disturbing thing is that we elected him. To me this is the last draw.


If I can arrange it, I will once again become an expatriate.


In any event I have come to hate the country that I loved so much.


Please take a minute and read the preamble to the constitution. I once had lunch with a coworker and he asserted that welfare was unconstitutional because the constitution didn't mentioned welfare. He was flabbergasted, when I corrected him and pointed out the yes it was. It's right there in the preamble:

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."


So, if I can arrange it, I will once again become an expatriate until such time as this country finds its way again. Until such time that we become a shining city upon the hill again and lives up to the promises in the preamble.