Archive for October 30th, 2008
I’ve been thinking lately that it really is my responsibility as an American to give away the fruits of my labor to the government so that they can adequately meet the needs of everyone. Wouldn’t the world be such a flowery and lovely place if our lives main goals were just already decided? All we would have to do is get up each morning, eat State Breakfast, drive State Car, work State Job, eat State Lunch, commute in State Traffic, eat State Supper, kiss State Wife, tuck in State Kids, watch State TV, and go to State Sleep. That really sounds like the life for me. I don’t know why that so many people are complaining. Never having to think about anything in your life, it’s great. Socialism is the keenest thing since sliced bread, but let’s face it, it’s not American.
The Founding Fathers hated centralized governmental control. They revolted against Britain for a tax increase of 3.5% among other reasons. When the USA was set up, it was to perpetuate a society where the indvidual citizen’s rights were what was to be valued at all costs. The “negative rights” as Barry told a Chicago NPR station are what the government can’t do to you, but the Constitution of the United States of America is lacking because it doesn’t say what the government should do for you. John Kennedy would be ashamed. I cannot believe that the media are styling the impending Obama Presidency as the return to a Kennedy-esque Camelot. John Kennedy specifically made the call “Ask not what your Country can do for you, Ask what you can do for your Country”. No idle words by any stretch of the imagination. John Kennedy was asking for more involvement in the American Process while still harkening back to the original American Spirit. Rugged individualism is the backbone of what America was about until “The Great Society”. After Federally Administrated Welfare was added to the list of Government Entitlement Programs, we have quickened our pace on the slippery slope into full, Federally Administrated Socialism.
Socialism is a word that has gotten a good deal of attention lately. As Obama is trying to move to the center and sway center-right voters out of the McCain camp, he consistently states that he’s no Socialist. It’s apparently a rediculous idea to him that someone can take the phrase “I think it’s better when we spread the wealth around” and insinuate that he is a Socialist. An off the cuff remark to be sure, but some of the truest words that will be spoken by Senator Obama. I remember Bush and Cheney laughing with a hot microphone still on “That reporter from the New York times, he’s a big time asshole.” I think they were being truthful and honest. They actually expressed what they meant. I think that the plan of American Socialism of the Left has been years in the making because of the spirit of America is one that does not lend itself naturally to a citizenry of individuals being ruled. It’s been hidden in veiled terms to throw rational Americans off their trail. Socialism is after all what we fought against in the Cold War. Only, the Cold War has never ended with Socialism as a whole, only with the Soviet Union. The last twenty years can be seen as a Sub-Arctic War. It’s been so cold, that America has not even seen it coming. Now, here is the Socialists’ strongest attack since the Tet Offensive. The goal is to cripple the global economy until collectivism takes over and we make the change from a world of individual nations to a world nation.
Many take this as a reactionary stance, that Senator Obama’s plans for Change are for the benefit of mankind. If I were to give up just a little more money a year or a little more personal choice about my own life, we’ll start living in the Poppy Fields of Oz and dance merrily down the Yellobama Brick Road. That is simply not the evidence that history provides with us. Socialist governments begin in the spirit of helping the citizenry but end up being just as oppressive as any other tyranical ruler in history. The only true forms of Socialism/Communism that have ever actually worked are Convents and Monastaries, where all take a vow of poverty and choose to live their lives for a higher purpose. If the proponents of American Socialism want to take that vow, it is fine with me. However, what is mine comes from the sweat of my brow and the strength of my back and I’ll be damned if i let someone take the fruits of my labor from me and give them to someone who contributes nothing to society unless it is by a personal and direct contribution of charity.
During the founding of this nation, the Constitution was written in a way that restricted the power of the Federal Government. The Founders had just witnessed first hand what could happen when a tyrant takes total control. They were attempting to prevent a similar usurpation of power. I’m not saying that Sen. Obama is going to usurp the power of his office and send us into a tyrannical state. However, it is on record that the Junior Senator from Illinois does not support the Constitution in its current form. How much do you trust that a man brought into politics by one of the last surviving political machines in the country is going to swear an oath to preserve and protect the document he has already spoken out against? The next four years, in my opinion, will prove to be disastrous for the United States of America. It will fall to the people of my generation who remain faithful to the constitution to restore the role of America in the Post- United Obama Socialist States of America. If I haven’t resigned myself to ranch life by that time, I will be there to take up the banner of the Individual again.
