Losing Hope In America

I’m not one to be a Negative Nelly, but I’ve been paying close attention to what President Obama, and his band of Washington knuckle-heads, have been up to this past month and I’m starting to lose hope in America. I am still proud to be an American, but I fear that this current administration doing irreversible damage to this great nation.

We are no longer the nation where hard work is rewarded. We are no longer the nation where we will be allowed to reap what we sow. No, I afraid that we are becoming a nation of whinny, self-absorbed, class envious, uneducated, uninformed, bitter, angry, and easily offended people.

Of course, with pop culture telling us we’re entitled to the good life, with the TV pitching credit cards and debt every other commercial, lawyers waiting to sue us for the slightest mis-understanding or mis-communication… can I really blame the American people? We’ve slowly become a nation of… well… losers really. And it’s our own fault, and not wanting to take responsibility for our own actions, we elected a man to our highest office that we really knew nothing about. And he’s running as far left and spending our money as fast as he can. And that is going to change this nation for generations to come.

It’s sad really. But I suppose to some extent we are going to get what we deserve. Enjoy your jobs while you have them, you spineless, lazy democrats. Because the government has convinced you that the people who make the big bucks are actually your enemy, when the truth is they are the ones who sign your paycheck.

I miss Ronny. He was the first president that I remember paying attention to, and history has proved his policies to be the right ones. For a bit of hope and perhaps maybe a reminder of what we’ve lost sight of, I’ve attached a bunch of his quotes to this post, with my favorites being on top. There are more after the jump.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

Facts are stubborn things.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

There are no easy answers’ but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Trust, but verify.

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.