Can we please put away the race card?Every time the media reports on a Tea Party event, the protesters involved are invariably cast as fringe right-wing racist rednecks. Yesterday I attended my third Tea Party rally, at the Indiana State Capitol building, and all I saw were peace-loving American patriots who were concerned for the future of our country.
Granted, there may be a few loony-tunes on the far-far fringe right who have some racial issues concerning our president. Such people will always be around, unfortunately. But to paint the Tea Party Movement as some kind of racist backlash against our first black president is a cheap political shot. More importantly, it is false.
There are millions of everyday Americans, people just like you and me, who may have never before been politically engaged. We went to work, raised our families, paid our taxes, and probably took for granted the liberty and prosperity we have enjoyed as American citizens -- that is, until the socialist wing of the Democratic Party took over this country in 2008.
We are riled up now -- and we have learned, the hard way, that our liberties cannot (and should not) be taken for granted any longer. This has nothing to do with the ethnicity of the man in the White House. It has everything to do with the agenda being advanced by a one-party government with a promiscuous lust for power, and a condescending disregard for our Constitution and the rule of law.
What alarms me, and millions of other freedom-loving Americans, is the explosive expansion of government control over our daily lives, and the reckless government spending that threatens to bankrupt us.
If the fact that the new "health care reform" legislation will require hiring 16,000 additional IRS agents doesn't disturb you, I would suggest you stay away from sharp objects and moving machinery, because you are seriously lacking in situational awareness.
For every problem that faces this country, the Democratic Party's solution is always the same: more government control, bigger government bureaucracies, and of course, higher taxation to pay for it all.Please don't dismiss this as partisan hyperbole. Can you give me a single example of anything Barack Obama has proposed that did NOT involve growing government and spending more money? I'm waiting...still waiting...ho hum...still waiting...that's what I thought...let's move on.
To be fair, the Republican Party has also failed us in many ways over the past decade. The best thing that can be said about too many of the Republican politicians is that they were the slightly lesser of two evils on election day.
For some reason, we never seem to learn the lessons of history. Without exception, throughout the ages, unrestrained government power has always brought corruption, oppression, and eventual tyranny.
The only way to safeguard our liberties, and our children's future, is to keep our government as small as possible -- and for us, as citizens, to live self-reliant lives without expecting government hand-outs. That's what adults do. It's called being a grown-up. It's also called being responsible for yourself, and it is a prerequisite to living as a free citizen in a democratic republic.
You will never be truly free if you are depending on someone else for your needs -- especially if that someone else is your government.
I have great hopes for this country, because I believe that the common sense of average Americans will rise to the challenges of these times. The masses are now awakened to the gravity of our nation's situation.
We now realize this country needs to change course. We know that we need to elect political leaders who believe in the common sense principles that made America the world's bastion of freedom and opportunity.
One of two things will happen over the next few years. We will get control of ourselves and shrink our government back down to it's proper dimensions -- OR -- we will succumb to the suffocating embrace of a socialist state that has become too big for us to restrain, and it will continue to grow until it completely consumes our liberties and our sustenance.
