America isn’t necessarily a place, but an idea that each one of us should have the freedom of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. These liberties are what have drawn countless immigrants to our shores for 200 years. Each passing day these liberties are under siege by an over-reaching federal government. The founders understood this danger and therefore created our unique Constitution … marveled by political thinkers of the time. It protected the people by limiting government.
America became great because individual Americans dreamed and brought their ideas to reality in the form of products and services. These entrepreneurs created jobs … the middle-class. Our country prospered. It wasn’t an accident.
One-hundred years after the progressive movement started and failed, socialism is again the “model” that we are being guided to by those “more educated and knowledgeable.” This ideology may be “noble” on paper, but it never has been successful. There hasn’t been a socialist government in history that hasn’t been oppressive: China-Mao Tse Tung, USSR-Stalin, Germany-Hitler, Cambodia-Pol Pot, Cuba-Castro.
European socialism is resulting in bankrupt governments, riots, and unproductively. Beautiful countries, but not as free as America. They’re heavily taxed and regulated. The winners are those that choose to be lazy.
Our president is lauded to be a constitutional lawyer and yet has given four speeches in the last six months misquoting the Declaration of Independence:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal … endowed with certain unalienable Rights …” He has conveniently left out “endowed by their Creator.” I can only come to one of two conclusions. Either he wasn’t that good of a student and forgot “Creator,” or he simply doesn’t acknowledge that our freedoms are provided by a loving God, but rather government. If that’s the case, it should scare the heck out of you because if the government can grant freedoms, they can take them away.
Dan Graves
Whitefish