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<p>You can have pornography on TV or the Internet, but you’d better not put a Nativity scene in a public park during Christmas. We have eliminated all criminals in America — they are now called sick people. We can use a human fetus for medical research, but it’s wrong to use an animal.</p>
<p>We take money from those who work hard for it and give it to those who don’t want to work. We all support the Constitution, but only when it supports our political ideology. We still have freedom of speech, but only if we are being politically correct. Parenting has been replaced with Ritalin and video games. The land of opportunity is now the land of handouts. The similarity between Hurricane Katrina and the gulf oil spill is that neither president did anything to help.</p>
<p>And how do we handle a major crisis today? The government appoints a committee to determine who’s at fault, then threatens them, passes a law, raises our taxes, and tells us the problem is solved so incumbents can get back to their reelection campaigns.</p>
<p>What has happened to the land of the free and the home of the brave?</p>
<p>© Ken Huber, all rights reserved.</p>
<p>Ken Huber of Tawas City, Michigan wrote a "letter to the editor" that expressed the frustrations of ordinary Americans with their feckless government. His words struck a responsive chord with the American electorate and the letter that he wrote became a viral email.</p>
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