WHAT’S HAPPENDED TO AMERICA?

I’m sure that there are, today, people in this world who look at America and all that it stands for, or at least what it used to stand for before Barry came onto the scene, and wonder what is it, exactly, that we Americans can possibly be thinking. Many of these people live in such places as Eastern Europe, Russia, China and Southeast Asia, and experience every day, or have experienced in the past, what it's like to live under an oppressive system of government. Millions of people yearning to live in freedom are watching us here in America as we continue to hand over, and quite willingly, more and more of our individual freedoms to what is nothing more than a cadre of corrupt bureaucrats. And I’m sure they must be wondering, why is it that we insist upon becoming more and more like them? Why do we seem so enamored with our government?

And, quite frankly, I don't really have any kind of an answer for them. Other than to say, freedom for many in this country appears to have become something that's simply too difficult to have to deal with. More and more people in this country apparently NEED someone to be telling them what to do and how to live their lives. It’s just easier that way, I guess. That way when something goes horribly wrong, they always have someone other than themselves to blame. However, when trying to explain it to those who have never been fortunate enough to live in freedom, that argument, most likely, makes very little sense. Because to them, what could possibly be more important than being able to live in freedom? Those qualities once viewed as being so uniquely American, and that set us apart from the rest of the world, have simply ceased to exist.

Sadly freedom over the entire course of human history has been, I think it safe to say, a very rare commodity. So you would think individuals blessed to live in a nation founded on freedom, would jealously guard that freedom against those who would try to take it from us. And yet, we here in America a seem to take our freedom somewhat for granted and seem quite eager to simply relinquish, completely, what few freedoms we actually have left. These days to be an American means something far different than it did as recently as just a decade or so ago. Where it once meant to be ruggedly independent, it has come to mean completely the opposite today. Where we were once proud to be able to stand on our own two feet, wanting nothing from our government, now too many us seem to think we just can't get by without government assistance.

And too many of us fail to realize, or to understand, that the more dependent one becomes on the government, the more say that same government will have in how one goes about living one’s life. Because it then has the power to dictate how you are to live you life and failure to obey those dictates, risks losing those services that one has become so dependent on the government to deliver. So now many around the world now look at us scratching their heads, wondering what it is that we can be thinking? They know first hand the hazards involved whenever the government has total control over the population. And yet we seem determined to be willing to ignore the evidence right before our eyes that which is always the result from providing government with too much power. Abject misery and universal poverty is always the natural result.