About my song “FREE RIDE”. The world I grew up in during the 1950s and the 1960s, is NOT the world no one lives in today. While it’s true, some things have gotten better, it’s is also true, that for many of our gains, we have also lost some things that made Americans so special. Some things', that gave each individual person in this country, strength through adversity and determination to overcome the hardships that life can send their way. It is also true, that sometimes we all need a helping hand to pull us from our knees where we have fallen. A helping hand to get us over hills we can’t climb by our selves. Family, social services, community, and government, can all play a part to give us that hand up from our those knees. And in some cases, that help must go on for years, even though it’s by no fault of the people receiving the help, that is just life. But people living on welfare, raising their kids on welfare, those kids raising their kids on welfare, and on and on….. That is just wrong. Only strength of personal character can break this cycle in a family dynamic and bring about change. And of course, along with this strength and desire to change a persons personal outcome in life, there must be opportunity to make these changes. This is where society it’s self comes in to play. It has been said; Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life. Almost anyone can relate to the sense of this statement. As to the thousands of people coming to our borders wanting to come here to better their lives; who can blame them? But would it not be better for us to teach them how to build a better life and social structure within their own country, Instead of bankrupting our social help networks here? After all, these systems are foremost for the citizens of the United states, and paid for by the same. Hey! Give a listen to "FREE RIDE" and let me know what you think. I hope you all enjoy the song. And if it please's you, please click the heart to let me know. Sincerely, Gerald Bubba Ulmer