I have read a few articles lately from various places that state that the US should sell Alaska back to Russia to help with our deficit. Then of course the current President of Russia stated just yesterday that he foresaw the US being split into six states and Alaska going back to Russia.
I have been standing up for the rights of the people in the US for many years and have been on many groups writing bits and pieces for their brochures, advertising and writing for the issues we all face. We have given our oil to the cause to be sold to other countries and then pay a higher price than anywhere in the US for a gallon of gas (currently it is $2.46/gal.). We have been the poster child for every environmental cause the US has forced on us and lacking the population our voice about our own land has been forgotten and hushed.
I have traveled to other states over the years and been treated like I am an uneducated idiot and like I am even from another country. People have said that I had such a clear American accent and asked if we used US currency.
With all of this, I have brushed it off as humorous that people in the lower 48 are the ones who seem to need an education yet they have no problem telling us how to live and what we can do when they think we live in igloos and use dog sled for transportation.
Now, with all of the idiocies that this great state has suffered through I read that some think we should be sold back to Russia, so we can clear cut, drill, hunt and fish to our hearts content. They want to sell us out, the 1 million people here, as if we do not count, as if we are not American, as if most who live here did not come from the Lower 48, as if we never existed and never will.
I am tired of being stepped on by this country that is supposed to be so wonderful. I am feeling more and more unattached to this country by the minute with trillion dollar spending bills and liberal ACLU environmentalists telling us how to live.
All of this makes me wonder, why am I fighting for something that nobody seems to afford to us? Why would I care what happens to anyone in the Lower 48 when they do not care about us? Why would I go to protests and write blogs and help with marketing when nobody is doing ANYTHING to help us up here.
I am disenfranchised with this myth of America anymore, a place that once was and is no longer, and I feel I have every reason to be.
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Bliss Tew
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Alaska Don't leave us! Ronda, I read your blog posting with interest. I live in Utah and sometimes have to laugh when people don't know where that is. Here in the West, I can tell you we know Alaska is an important state that contributes much to the prosperity of our nation as well. My first memories are in Alaska, where my father took us to live when I was a baby until I was three. I hope to travel there in the not too distant future. My parents have traveled back to Alaska many times. I've often seen that Alaska and Utah have a lot in common. For example the Federal Government has retained ownership of much of our "territory" as if our states still were merely territories and not states. Also, there's the hardship for energy businesses in Alaska or Utah when it comes to attempting to gain permission from the federal government and the eastern establishment to develop our energy resources. Instead, they are often locked up by federal decrees. In Utah, for example we have the Kapairowitz Plateau where $1-trillion of low-sulfur coal goes unmined because Bill Clinton locked it up with the stroke of his pen as a National Monument. Just our coal alone could run America's electricity energy needs for hundreds of years, let alone our unmined, undeveloped uranium, our immense oil shale fields, etc. Hey, don't give up! I want to help you! I've even set up a JBS Community group for Alaskan's to join to preserve your state's rights, to fight the environmentalist nonsense, to restore sanity to our monetary system, to help convince Alaska's legislators to stand up for the Constitutional system that made us all free in America! |
