This is it, folks. America’s troubles are over. Barack Obama is the POTUS today. He will fix everything.
At least, that’s what a majority of people think:
The incoming president has a lot to live up to, with polls suggesting that the public has higher expectations of him than for any recent U.S. president.
According to a survey published last night, 71 per cent of Americans believe the economy will improve during the first year of the Obama presidency and 65 per cent said they think unemployment will drop.
Asked about cash-strapped Wall Street, 72 per cent said they thought the stock market would recover.
Some 63 per cent were confident that their personal financial situation would improve.
‘He cannot not succeed. He has to succeed because the world really depends on him right now,’ said Richard Kern, 51, who works in a home remodeling business in Bernalillo, New Mexico.
See, that’s what I’m talking about here, folks.
As Americans, we should not be pining for a President to fix the stock market or improve our personal financial situation.
We should not be hoping that our President will provide anything for us other than security. Government is created to protect our rights, so that we can provide for ourselves.
And yet here we stand today, waiting for the president to use the force of government to take the property of one person and give it to another, one government finds more deserving. This is the complete opposite of what our Founders believed.
That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest.
and
A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species: where arbitrary taxes invade the domestic sanctuaries of the rich, and excessive taxes grind the faces of the poor; where the keenness and competitions of want are deemed an insufficient spur to labor, and taxes are again applied, by an unfeeling policy, as another spur; in violation of that sacred property, which Heaven, in decreeing man to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, kindly reserved to him, in the small repose that could be spared from the supply of his necessities.
What else did Obama promise if not an unjust government?
When Reagan took office in 1981, he didn’t promise anything other than getting government out of the way so American’s could prosper. He reminded us that we were not a government with a people, but a people with a government. That the states were not a creation of the federal government, but the federal government was created by the states.
He reminded us that America was great, not because of the people in Washington, D.C., but because of the everyday American heroes.
He understood that “Government is not the solution to the problem, the government is the problem.”
Leftists today laud Obama for reversing that mantra, claiming that government is the only way out of this current economic crisis. It is this attitude that is pushing us across the bridge to dependence.
It is unfortunate that the American people have allowed themselves to become willing collectivists when there is such a rich history of tyranny and death that follows the creation of such a government.
I’m not saying that America is going to turn into the late Soviet Union, with lines for toilet paper and gulags. Not in the next four or eight years, anyway. But I am saying that the American independent spirit is hurting.
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