Please, Don’t Crack the Foundation

Please, Mr. Obama, most of us just want you to leave us alone to live our lives as Americans have lived since getting out from under the king of England. When we got rid of him we jumped for joy, threw our hands in the air and hollered, Yippee! We Are Free At Last, able to live as free people.
But now we are feeling our freedom slipping away. With your heritage, you might know better than I what it is like to live under the thumb of other people. What we did to slaves was wrong, a sin against not only them, but against God Almighty.
Those tables have now been reversed, and you are in the position of power, and what you are doing to all Americans feels profoundly oppressive.
Instead of building up the traditional American values of self-reliance, hard work, pride in accomplishment and service to country and others, you are leading the effort to make us believe that handouts don’t destroy our sense of self-worth, and are perfectly natural. But, sir, they are not okay, leaving the recipient empty inside while undermining the drive of the taxpayers who are now being forced to pay for this expanded reach of government.
We love this country. It has been so good to the ancestors of those of us born white. We want this gift passed on to the children and grandchildren of all Americans.
You think you are taking from the rich and helping out the poor. Yes, the money is being transferred, but it is not having a helpful effect. On the contrary, what our nation must do is teach everybody how to fish, but not hand them fish.
You see the numbers; there are millions fewer people working now than five years ago, and hardest hit are the young people, whose spirits are being crushed because they are not able to move out of their parents’ homes and stand on their own feet. They want to work, but they expect to receive fair compensation without an ever-heavier hand of government taxation placed upon them.
You and your advisers certainly know that the more government interferes with the natural forces of the economy, the more it slows down; clearly you think your intervention is going to be worth the toll it is taking on our economy. But massive give-away programs reduce the motivation to put out the effort to get the education, or to put in the extra hours, or to drive oneself to work like a dog to make something of him/herself.
After five years of this sluggishness, why is it not clear to you that your approach is not working? Some question your motives, saying that by taking from the rich and giving to the poor, you are insuring enough votes to keep the Democrats in power. I often think that too, but it is seldom wise to question another person’s motives because well-intentioned people just see the same facts differently.
Look at all the Mexicans working so hard out in the hot sun cutting and trimming our yards; do you think they would be working so hard if hunger did not force them to do so? Motivation is good because it forces us to do what we don’t feel like doing, but in the end are glad that we did. In the long run, the drive of the Mexicans will reward them, but those who sat on their hands will live lives of quiet desperation.
These give-away programs are not only bankrupting our government treasury, and undermining the moral fiber of our people, but are doing something even worse. Columnist Peggy Noonan put it this way: “Too many things are happening that are making a lot of Americans feel a new distance from, a frayed affiliation with, the country they have loved for half a century and more, the country they loved without ever having to think about it, so natural was it.”
Mr. Obama, please don’t crack the foundations of this wonderful nation—so much of value rests upon it.
From the Bible:
Work and you will earn a living; if you sit around talking you will be poor.
Proverbs 14:23