Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Is the American Dream dead?

Forty percent of Americans think that our economy is in a permanent state of decline and will never get better.  Five out of ten Americans, one out of two, think that there is virtually no chance that their children will have better lives than they did.  That has been the American dream for generations.  For generations that has been the American dream – that I’ll work hard, I’ll care for my children, I’ll nurture them, I’ll see that they are educated, and they will have a better life than their parents had.  That dream is gone.  It is going. 
At this point, to be completely honest and absolutely honest with you, my disgust and contempt for Barack Obama grows every time I see his picture, every single time I see that face and every time I hear him speak. 
I’m 58 years old and I love this county, and I thank God every day that I was born in this country.    Every one of  my father's his kids … he had three … their standard of living rose above what he enjoyed, and I’m hoping it will be the same for my daughters.  But it stops there.  Americans have lost that confidence. 
This standard of living we have in this country was not brought to us by government; it was brought to us by free people working in an economic system of capitalism and free enterprise, where every individual out there was empowered to pursue their dreams as far as their dreams would take them … with the rule of law always out there to protect them from predators – the economic predators, the criminal predators – always out there ready to protect them.  It was the free enterprise system that created a standard of living unsurpassed by any other economic system anywhere in the world in the history of civilized man, and then the people of this country put a man dedicated to the destruction of capitalism and free enterprise in the White House. 
As late as the 1980s, this man, Barack Obama, was a dedicated Marxist revolutionary.  Then his zeal was tempered somewhat because he finally figured out that there wasn’t going to be a Communist revolution in the United States.  His father was a Communist.  His mother was a Communist, and when his father disappeared from his life, his mother took on a lover who was a Communist.  He hung out with Communists in college.  He gravitated toward Communist professors in college.  And now he is president of the United States? 
This is a man who, when he decided that he was going to finally enter the political realm, decided that he would make that announcement in the home of two dedicated Communist revolutionaries: Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers.  Everything about this man -- from his childhood, through college and his entry into politics -- everything about him is infused in Marxism and anti-capitalism and a hatred for the private sector and free enterprise and a love of government.   And he becomes president of the United States.  And now people think the American dream is over … that our free market economy is in permanent decline and will never get better.  Surprised?  Not me.

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