Barack Hussein Obama is not our savior. Four years ago many American's placed their
hopes and passions for a better America in the hands of Barack Obama. Now many of
these same Americans feel they have been betrayed; and they have.
Mr. Obama's plan for America the America that we grew up believing in, it is not the
America that many of us have fought to preserve, it is not the America that values free
enterprise over free handouts, it is not the America forefathers created on the promise
that hard work will be rewarded and revered.
I grew up believing in Puritanism (or basically hard work was good) and the counterpart -
that hard work should be rewarded. Obama grew up and was educated to believe -
"from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" (Google this if you
seek the source).
I grew up honoring and revering men like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Henry
Ford and Thomas Edison. Other than Abraham Lincoln, I shudder to think who Obama's
boyhood heroes were.
Obama seems to resent and often disparages the wealthy that have, like it or not,
shaped our history and played a major role making America what it is today.
We Americans all want a better life for our family, our loved ones and, of course,
ourselves, but the "American Way" is to earn it by the fruits of our labor, and not have
it given to us by someone who rightly earned it in just that manner.
I question the whole philosophy of "redistribution of the wealth" as unbecoming to what
we are as Americans. Most of us were raised to respect success, not to feel threatened
or intimidated by it; for sure wealth is a part and parcel of success and a measure of it.
Contrary to what most Americans believe, the top 16% of American wage earners pay
70% of the income tax burden; while the remaining 84% of the American tax payers bare
only a 30% share of our nations income taxes. That is a far cry from most Americans
perceived reality.
Wealth in the hands of the wealthy builds on itself to the benefit of all - a wealthy America
is a strong America.
This is not to say that we ignore poor and impoverished, but the poor and impoverished
are best helped by giving them the means to help themselves; teaching them how to fish
rather than give them fish.
Obama's plan to redistribute the wealth is "a handout not a hand up," and it is
fundamentally bad for Americans in general and specifically bad for America a nation
bound to a common cause. A cause of freedom, justice and equality for all.
As an example, Obama has expanded the food stamp program by more than 100%, not
by reaching out to the truly needy, but by lowering the requirements to qualify for the
food stamp program. In so doing, Obama no doubt succeeds in endearing himself to an
electorate eager to get more than they either deserve or need, an electorate that is not
representative of the ideals of true Americans.
Nothing is more central to American ideology than "Free Enterprise" and the policies of
Barack Obama (and I believe his personal ideology) is the greatest threat to this core
philosophy that America has ever faced.
It is time for Americans to stand up for the ideals on which this great nation was founded.
hopes and passions for a better America in the hands of Barack Obama. Now many of
these same Americans feel they have been betrayed; and they have.
Mr. Obama's plan for America the America that we grew up believing in, it is not the
America that many of us have fought to preserve, it is not the America that values free
enterprise over free handouts, it is not the America forefathers created on the promise
that hard work will be rewarded and revered.
I grew up believing in Puritanism (or basically hard work was good) and the counterpart -
that hard work should be rewarded. Obama grew up and was educated to believe -
"from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" (Google this if you
seek the source).
I grew up honoring and revering men like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Henry
Ford and Thomas Edison. Other than Abraham Lincoln, I shudder to think who Obama's
boyhood heroes were.
Obama seems to resent and often disparages the wealthy that have, like it or not,
shaped our history and played a major role making America what it is today.
We Americans all want a better life for our family, our loved ones and, of course,
ourselves, but the "American Way" is to earn it by the fruits of our labor, and not have
it given to us by someone who rightly earned it in just that manner.
I question the whole philosophy of "redistribution of the wealth" as unbecoming to what
we are as Americans. Most of us were raised to respect success, not to feel threatened
or intimidated by it; for sure wealth is a part and parcel of success and a measure of it.
Contrary to what most Americans believe, the top 16% of American wage earners pay
70% of the income tax burden; while the remaining 84% of the American tax payers bare
only a 30% share of our nations income taxes. That is a far cry from most Americans
perceived reality.
Wealth in the hands of the wealthy builds on itself to the benefit of all - a wealthy America
is a strong America.
This is not to say that we ignore poor and impoverished, but the poor and impoverished
are best helped by giving them the means to help themselves; teaching them how to fish
rather than give them fish.
Obama's plan to redistribute the wealth is "a handout not a hand up," and it is
fundamentally bad for Americans in general and specifically bad for America a nation
bound to a common cause. A cause of freedom, justice and equality for all.
As an example, Obama has expanded the food stamp program by more than 100%, not
by reaching out to the truly needy, but by lowering the requirements to qualify for the
food stamp program. In so doing, Obama no doubt succeeds in endearing himself to an
electorate eager to get more than they either deserve or need, an electorate that is not
representative of the ideals of true Americans.
Nothing is more central to American ideology than "Free Enterprise" and the policies of
Barack Obama (and I believe his personal ideology) is the greatest threat to this core
philosophy that America has ever faced.
It is time for Americans to stand up for the ideals on which this great nation was founded.
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