Sunday, February 27, 2011

One America

As I look out over I-57 tonight, I think that the differences between us are not so great, that we are but one America.  One country.  Allied and aligned.  And what we all want is universal:  a good life for ourselves, our children, and our fellowman.  And how to get there: hard work (who among us wants to reward the slothful?), hope, and an omnipresent eye on the prize relative prosperitry, a tomorrow brighter than tonight).

I cringe at those among us who want the working and giving amng us to give even more to those who think that they haven't been given enough. I cringe at the sight of those who beg at the steps of the county courthouse: Give me some more!  (For you seek but a gift, exactly like those at the food line at the homeless shelter).

This man's America is a land where we all work hard, and we all do well.   Not well enough to fly in jet airplanes to tropical beaches to frolic in the saline tides, but well enough to dine on eggs and sourdough biscuits and bacon.   To live well, in the humblest sense of the word. 

This man's America is a land where we stop crying, and stop begging. Where we get off our chairs and stoops and take what is ours, what is our birthright:  wealtth, prosperity, happiness.

What do we need from Uncle Sam, from Government? 

Nothing, except open roads and freedom from interference.

Freedom made this land great.   Freedom  from oppresssion.  Freedom from contol.  Freedom from those who would make their pet issue ours.  Freedom from those who demand 'rights,' when the only authentic right is that to be left alone to pursue our destiny. 

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