Posture and The New Year!

Well, Happy New Year! Does anyone else find it interesting after making resolutions for a new beginning, setting ourselves to task to be productive, and looking to get 2010 started off on the right foot, we immediately take a day off? It's like the polar opposite to productivity. Thank goodness I'm here to point these contradictions out!

Anyway, the quest for personal development, personal freedom, and common sense should never take a day off. Our boys in the military are at their posts today insuring freedom. It's been said, and I truly believe this, that you don't understand freedom until your willing to fight for someone else's. How important is it that America retain it's posture as the beacon of freedom throughout the world? We are the example, yet their are people in our government trying to mold us into a government like what's not working in Europe.

Why does this administration feel it's necessary to lose our posture as the greatest nation on earth? After all we are the example of freedom and free enterprise! That deserves a certain swagger and chest thumping. Because other nations are jealous of our freedom isn't a reason to diminish it's advantages. It's cause to throw out your chest and say, "We are a walking, talking, good deal!", and show others the path to our greatness. Since our freedom was won we've inspired 191 other countries to a democracy. Why stop there?

Just because France and others, model of government and economy isn't working, is no reason to propose we sprinkle our freedoms with socialism. They are perfectly welcome to alter their governments to resemble ours and display the swagger of winners too. When they call us arrogant, it's simply because they're jealous and yearn for our freedom and prosperity. Do the New York Yankees trade away their stars because they are accused of being a dynasty? Absolutely not! They display the posture of winners and invite others to challenge their greatness, thereby creating a competition for perfection. Yet there are people who would have us believe because other countries are jealous of our prosperity and freedoms, that we should give away what made us great. There are a great deal of those flawed thinkers holding government office right now.

Socialistic programs like free healthcare, social security, medicaid, medicare, unemployment, etc,etc, are not what made this country great, but they maybe it's downfall! There is a looming example of how those programs work, just gaze across the pond and examine, France. In a free country with a capitalistic economy social needs should be met with charities, not government programs. Charity's limit fraud, government programs invite it. Government has it's plate full just running....the government.

God Bless
Capt. Bill