The World As It Is

Michelle Obama's speech on the first evening of the DNC depicted a family, two individuals, a man and a woman, that have embraced their role as parents, embraced hard work, perseverance, volunteerism, community involvement, and they seek to lead others into these roles. These are great, and I applaud their accomplishments.

The problem is how we incorporate these great ideas in American culture. An Obama administration seeks to implement social reform through the federal government. While chiding the current administration's failures, the Dems seek to give every child a world-class education, a job, health care, retirement security, etc... through the auspices of wealth redistribution. While much of Michelle's work in the past was through a non-profit called Public Allies, which is funded privately, the Obama plan will incorporate these programs into a impersonal bureaucratic government system.

Michelle rejects the world as we know it. She seeks to make it as it should be. The world in which Michelle has thrived and helped so many others, she seeks to change. She, her husband, and the Dems seek to implement a great expansion of FDR's New Deal. The attitude of selflessness, giving, and volunteerism are great and worthy of praise. Forcing people to participate in an expansive government social system will destroy these values.

America is the most generous nation in the world. America gives more to the less fortunate and the desperate of the world than any other nation. If we continue to drift toward the socialist ideas being perpetrated by the Dems, America's great trend of giving will be a thing of the past.

God Save the U.S.A.