Betrayal of America's Spirit

Mr. Obama’s first one hundred days in office will change the landscape of America for generations to come.

He is stacking $9 trillion dollars of debt on top of the one-half trillion that President Bush left on our table. Senator Newt Gingrich put this in perspective. Every twenty year old American has been saddled with an $114,000 IOU just to pay the interest on Obama’s spending.

And that number will triple if blanket amnesty for illegal aliens, cap and trade and universal healthcare are made law. The consequence of his vision will entail the confiscation of 60% to 75% of all earned income to support government and government welfare.

This will absolutely destroy any opportunity the next generations of Americans have to rise above the government’s allowance for success. When the incentive to create a better future for self and family is removed, private enterprise will shrivel and die. And that is the goal of socialists.

That’s why Obama and the Democrats want to reinstate the death tax. It’s the last residual of accumulated wealth which they regard as a dangerous, unfair disparity. Confiscating and redistributing the wealth created by previous generations will eliminate all inequality between classes.

Let no one doubt that diversity, political correctness, multiculturalism and affirmative action are knives that have been honed to cut the heart out of individual initiative and responsibility. This war against individual freedom and opportunity has two fronts.

The economy has over shadowed Obama’s efforts to demean and marginalize the Judeo-Christian principles the nation was founded on. By executive order he has made it a civil crime for a medical person to refuse to perform an abortion.

Think about that. With the stroke of his pen, Obama decreed that the State is the sole arbiter of moral decision making. He has greased the skids for the displacement of religious values with the secular courts. This establishes the State as equal to the Supreme Being.

His decision to open the human gene pool to stem cell research affected more than medical research. He proclaimed that the sanctity of human life is secondary to political judgments. In truth, Mr. Obama placed the human species on the same level as lab rats.

The amalgamation of abortion on demand and unlimited genetic engineering erases every moral standard upon which Western Civilization was built. This philosophy is what justifies the government’s redefinition of the purpose of marriage, and allows it to substitute moral equivalency for absolute truth.

It doesn’t eliminate the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But it does give the government the right to define these rights, which mean they are subject to change based on the whims of government.

Capitalism, with all its flaws, is the muscle that built America. It opened the door of opportunity to all comers. And Obama? His agenda is disemboweling the American incentive by rewarding failure.

The only question remaining: Can Obama crush the human spirit? That answer will be delivered by the voters in the 2010 mid-term elections.

Obama, China and Capitalism

Senator Obama is well shielded from the public.

He only works from well rehearsed scripts and condemns scrutiny as cynicism. This allows him to hide in plain sight. He can emote with great passion with sterling rhetoric without the curse of explaining those nagging details that betray the color of his flag.

Typical of the majority in Congress, he is big on “what” and short on “how.” This occurs when a speaker has no solution or blueprint, or worse, knows the electorate would be repulsed by the consequences of implementing his or her vision. Senator Obama falls into the latter category.

With the blind allegiance of media, he has remained unscathed. Thus, only on rare occasions do we get a glimpse into what’s lurking inside Obama’s mind. His recent ad lib rebuking the general inability of Americans to speak foreign languages spoke volumes about his personal and political breeding.

As all leftwing adherents, he doesn’t understand the engine of capitalism. The language comment defined his utter lack of knowledge about the basics of global economics. English is the track that world commerce runs on. It’s the mandatory second language in emerging industrial nations such as India and China.

It’s their key to actively sharing the wealth of a global economy. Thus these emerging nations are immersing their youth in English because they understand the relationship between English and flourishing in the global marketplace.

And they understand the power of capitalism. It creates wealth and rewards those who re-invest it. This is Communist China’s tacit acknowledgement that the state is the ultimate beneficiary of its citizens’ personal initiative, and the power of private enterprise.

In this unguarded moment Obama recommended Americans learn Spanish. Of course, he was pandering to a Hispanic audience. But this defined his political breeding.

He believes US citizens should speak Spanish so they can better communicate with illegal aliens. He believes the government should speak in all tongues. He places the burden of integrating into society on those who have already succeeded.

Obama is so imbued in affirmative action, diversity and multi-culturalism that he doesn’t see the corrosive effects these leftwing mantras have on limiting individual opportunity and the economic vitality of our nation.

To compensate for a policy that retards the melting pot effect of a common language, the leftwing substitutes government handouts for tough love. It’s no surprise Obama wants income taxes to exceed 50% on the wealthy and to double the capital gains tax on everyone.

It’s a sad day in America when the leaders in Communist China have a better understanding of capitalism and the necessity of learning the English language than one of the United States’ presidential candidates.