Our "Defining Moment"...

“Growing inequality” says Obama: really? He does not even know how to define “equality.” He ignores the Declaration of Independence and its use of such concepts as equal (“men are created equal”) and individual rights. Rather, he chooses to use statist principles to define how individuals should be considered economically equal; e.g. “fairness” as a subjective standard of value, a belief in self-sacrifice for the collective, and the collective being considered better than the sum of its parts (individuals). He falsely believes that “winners” - those who produce and succeed in life - win at the expense of non-winners; and, therefore, there should not be any real winners. Thus the attack on the “1%”. 

Our President continually defies our Constitution with such things as executive orders, appointments, and a health care insurance mandate; has a frightening foreign policy, appeasing our enemies in war and sacrificing our ally in Israel; and clearly wants to take us down the path toward statist Europe. And if you don’t think their statism is the cause of their current woes and long-term, relatively low productivity, just visit there awhile and see for yourself. 

While the entire Left has continually spouted their talking points about Obama’s greatness, I have attempted to show in principle why none of it is true. As I have previously noted, his “hope and change” is - and always was - meaningless and disingenuous. And his goal of economic equality for all is an un-American goal. For the sake of this country’s future success measured against our exceptional past, he must be defeated this year. 

Our “defining moments” should be defined by the true priority issues of the day. Economically, it is ‘government (controls/regulations) against the private sector’. Let the free markets work and the private sector will pull us out of our economic malaise and employment will fall dramatically.  

Politically, it is ‘crony-socialism and corruption’, beginning in, and enabled by, government. That violates individual rights, creates unfair advantages for special interests, increases government costs, and enables irrational policies in such areas as the environment, energy, immigration and education. 

Socially/morally, it is ‘failing to uphold individual rights while inappropriately defining “rights” ’. Politicians appear unable to rationally discuss and resolve issues such as abortion and gay marriage. 

In foreign policy, it is ‘the lack of a coherent policy’. We do have a serious enemy, but it is not every non-ally. We must not forget that U.S. foreign policy is only meant to protect Americans’ rights from foreign threats; our enemy needs to be better defined, limited and then defeated.  

Let’s have open debate on such “defining moments.” And let’s let that, not party politics and talking points, determine who should be our next President.