Who we are as a nation is not who we were. We are many peoples, drawn from around the world to the United States since its founding because of a vision that we all have value. In valuing the individual, we understand that their efforts are what count. Allowing people the dignity of work, the ability to create businesses, to engage in commerce and to rise or fall based on their own skills and aptitudes are what made a difference to people whose nose was pressed up against the glass. Free enterprise, a Republic, a non-punitive tax rate and stability allowed all Americans the vision of a future for themselves and their posterity that was hopeful.
Before the US government failed it's own people and the world in general, with the sub-prime loan scandal that led to massive defaults, the Chinese called America "the Golden Mountain". It was a place where hundreds of millions of Chinese would have gladly immigrated because it held a PROMISE they didn't see coming from the "worker's paradise". I'm not sure what the Chinese call the US now. Perhaps "Failed Vision"?
We have failed the world to some extent because we have been failed by ourselves and our ignorance as a people. How else could Barack Hussein Obama have been elected President, and Harry Reid & Nancy Pelosi have risen to leadership of the Congress? Now we fight the ObamaNation, a vision of social malaise, a concept of Marx and Lenin revisited, and of a vicious bent to "change an rearrange" America - to abandon what made us great and to replace it with a carbon copy of other failed socialist states (Because you always eventually run out of other people's money. h/t Thatcher)
We borrow against our grandchildren's future and squander it today. It doesn't take a genius to understand where it's all headed - and it isn't pretty.
When we run the socialists from Congress in 2010 and the present leadership from Washington in 2012, we will face harsh realities handed down from previous debts incurred. We will have to feel pain in the form of reduced government spending in order to bring our nation back to balance. Do we have the courage to do that as a people?
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"Do we have the courage to do that as a people?"
We - you and I, as well as many others whom we have befriended through this blogging experience - I believe we have that courage.
It is the run-of-the-mill, just go to work and come home and not pay much attention, learn no more about America's problems than what Brian Williams or Katie Cupcake tells me, let's go to the movies and put it on our already over-extended credit card...
Those are the people who I fear will rear up in resentment once people with a real desire to fix America are elected and begin to stand up against The ObamaNation and his plans to "fundamentally transform" our nation.
I agree with Soloman. There are too many people who aren't paying attention and still think we're a bunch of kooks because that's what the MSM tells them. I'm afraid too many of us were asleep too long so we HAVE to have the courage to do what we must to bring our nation back to the greatness we once enjoyed.
If not us .. who?
Janie Lynn - during the American revolution, people were no different than they are now. Most sat on the sidelines watching the action.
It always comes down to "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers." It's the nature of man. If not us, who? If not now, when?
Soloman - I agree with you. It's depressing. Still, if we don't do anything, what will our grandchildren think of us? What will we think of ourselves? "And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's Day."
That may be a bit overly dramatic, but we are at a crossroads as a nation and everyone who can, must do SOMETHING to stop the ObamaNation.
"must do SOMETHING to stop the ObamaNation."
How far should "SOMETHING" go?
RayGun -- "Something" Defined:
(1) Educate - detoxify the mainstream media through a process of presenting a balanced perspective on precisely what the ObamaNation's goals are and why they are BAD for the US and ultimately the world.
(2) Protest appropriately.
(3) VOTE.
Ignorance is the enemy of liberal politicians, hence their attacks on Fox News and anyone else who dares defy the Hope and Change agenda.
The counter-revolution (of knowledge and right thinking) begins at home. As CSN would say, "Teach your children well."
That flag you put up. No stars at all. Odd. Probably made that one up because the CIC can't remember how many states we have.
I hope we can get things back in balance in this country. While holding on to our Constitution and our freedoms. This gaggle of Commies who LIED their way into power should NOT have the last word.
In a society that doesn't value the individual, the individual is a slave to whatever the self-appointed philosopher kings determine to be "the greater good"
I can only speak for myself, but when I saw what was in store for America after Obama became President, I could not - in good conscience - sit by the wayside and watch the show. By passing the word, telling the truth and staying informed we can fight against Obama's plans to destroy our country.
As foutsc said, "Teach your children well" is the answer for the future.
Shining a light on corruption is the best way to eliminate it.
LL said...
"Shining a light on corruption is the best way to eliminate it."
Which of course explains Nancy Pelosi's herculean efforts to prevent a deeper probe of serial tax cheat and fraudster Charlie Rangell (D-NY) Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee
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