Letter to "my" government

Dear President, Cabinet members to be, and Representatives in Congress:

Lately, you have portrayed that you are for the little guy and said that you will still be the president of and represent those who did not cast their votes for you. Before you judge what I have to say, think it through. Mr. Obama, I am glad that the bigotry of the past has seen evidence of defeat by your electoral win, but I am also uneasy, for our freedom is still at stake. And while it's nice that black children can see a political leader as a role model instead of the usual athlete or rapper, it's sad that their parents didn't do their job to teach them already that they can be anything they want to be and leave color out of it. All black children should be growing up knowing they can achieve instead of being taught "the man is keeping them down." But today, a new bigotry arises, every bit as crucial as skin color, in fact, much more so, for it effects us all and is partial to no man!

First, I believe in helping those less fortunate just as you claim to. Liberal leaders, however, do not have faith in the American people as they claim. Even so, Americans, though highly and unfairly taxed, are some of the most generous people there are. Mr. Obama, the American people have been very generous to you in particular, not just in terms of money, but also in terms of forgiveness. They have overlooked your past, your statements of socialist values, and even overlooked your saying there are 57 states. And though Americans are generous and forgiving, not to mention ingenious and creative, liberal leaders still seem to feel they must control all aspects of American life for the people's own good.

You speak of spreading the wealth around. And it does sound nice, especially if you're on the receiving end. If you really care about wealth and the betterment of the American people, I think you will explore the possibility that liberal handouts and a welfare society does more long term damage than it does good. The choices we face today are whether or not to throw money away to support failing strategies which provide solutions that cannot be maintained. Perhaps you are expecting prodigal sons from the financial and auto industries. But if you go back to your Bible, you'll notice that not even the prodigal son's father threw more money into his wasteful lifestyle. He let him fail, learn his lesson, and return.

From auto workers' unions to teachers unions, we know that unionization hinders competition and stagnates creativity. Soon, in schools, it will be the students who are going to need unions once liberals start replacing math, science, history, and useful learning with liberal lesson plans. Do you think that Japanese universities have a lot of programs in "Asian Studies" where they sit and discuss the atrocities of America against them in WWII? I doubt it. They study math, and they're better at it because they don't waste their time wallowing in their past or teaching their 5 year olds about safe sex.

Government talks of tax reform as if it thought it up in the morning and will implement it by mid-afternoon. How will you pay for all the "free" health care, education, and other types of financial assistance in the midst of a recession other than take it from someone you "feel" doesn't deserve it? How can you steal from one American and give it to another or even give it to a non-citizen and believe that to be a valid morality? I am not one of these wealthy top 5% you speak of, but even I realize that overtaxing and progressive taxation is theft? What is so difficult about having a fair or flat tax program or even a sales tax only program? IRS overhead alone is monstrous and wasteful. Even your process of taxation wastes the money from the taxes you collect; an outstanding business model. And you don't have to fix it because you have no manager to fire you for losing money like they do in the real world. Well, I, American Citizen, am firing the incompetent stewards of our dollars.

Solutions like the ones government proposes might be fine if government were an adult doling out allowances to its children, but people earn salaries and create things; not for you, but for their families, their charities, and their own causes. Their livelihood doesn't come from you, nor must it be confiscated by you. Again: our livelihood doesn't come from you. It's quite the other way around, though many of today's citizens, voters, and especially politicians have forgotten that important truth.

Mr. Obama, I know you are more of a socialist than a free-market guy, but even you must realize on a very basic level that when you tax those who successfully produce goods and services in high demand, there is less incentive for them to keep raising the bar and doing it better and cheaper. And you incentivize poverty. If you pay for welfare, you will get more welfare, and it will only continue to grow. Look at Detroit. Look at what it used to be versus what it is today. It's a strange irony, but you will make the country poorer for all even though you want to spread wealth. You'll spread poverty like putrid moldy butter over a hard stale biscuit. But I think you are smart enough to know that already, which begs the question: "why?" What is your motivation to impose ideas that history has shown to fail? You and I both know that the government is not the best steward of money. The government causes mis-allocation of goods and services by getting involved where it does not belong which causes more problems (such as shortages or surpluses) than it solves. For instance, even in 2008, farmers still get paid a subsidy not to produce certain crops. Only with the backwards-thinking philosophy of a bureaucracy such as this can you create so many situations where one can expect to be paid not to do something.

OUR PHILOSOPHY OF FREEDOM

What I am most afraid of, however, in terms of politics, is the philosophical differences I have with my government. You believe in a diffusion of responsibility and seem to support a slow erosion of what has made America strong. You want everyone to be responsible for everyone else. What logically results is a society where no one is responsible for anything. Your idea sounds good in theory; it even almost sounds Christian. But the truth is that Christ put enormous responsibility on the individual for his choices in life. And He expects much from each of us. Where we will differ is that you think government is somehow the policeman of God. Though you may act the part, that is something you will never be. In some sense, it is as if our country is already under a Sharia law. This must continue no further and must, in fact, be subdued now.

Mr. Obama, you described what I am talking about best when you said that if one of your daughters were to make a mistake, you didn't want her punished with a baby. I believe it is your daughter's responsibility not to have sex if she doesn't want a baby rather than the baby's responsibility to die for your daughter's mistake and fear of responsibility. And I believe it is your responsibility to teach her that as a parent. Now, your nature is likely going to be to justify your ideas based on extremes. I am afraid of you trying to police morality because your logic is flawed, and I can see leaders of your ilk slowly eroding the foundation we stand upon by introducing the poison of relativistic morality presented as an absolute. For a Harvard law graduate to have such flaws in his logic as you do is disturbing. Either your education was flawed, you must have changed since law school, or deep down you know better than to truly believe some of the things you say. None of those are terrifically comforting possibilities.

Only this week, famous dating site, E-Harmony is forced against its will to represent a homosexual value that it does not share. It was forced to pay the attorney general of New Jersey and the gay man that brought charges against it and also set up a gay-specific matching website. In your mighty wisdom, government, you have stripped freedom from one individual to give to another under the auspices of fairness and equal rights. I know I'll never see a gay website forced to represent heterosexuality, however. You come from a world where double standards are the ultimate fairness. We now see ourselves in a country where any individual or private enterprise can now be punished under our law for not sharing the same values as someone else. No longer are church and state separate entities. The state is quickly becoming the new church. In effect, you are setting precedent so that you can demand by law that I share your immorality.

Mrs. Obama recently said in a speech that America needs to fix its broken soul and that you were the man to help us do it. You tell people "yes, we can", but you simultaneously show that you don't believe in the people you say it to. In your eyes, they cannot succeed without government. I only hope they can succeed in spite of it. You know as well as I that people who believe so readily in the unproven hope that you offer are easily controlled. I wonder if you are happy to keep the poor and those who have suffered injustice right where they are, embittered, because they are easy votes for one who promises the world but can get by offering a few handfuls of crumbled earth. Like a circus sideshow, the welfare state offers a sight of the never-before-seen two headed, fire-breathing dragon, which turns out to be a couple of midgets in a shoddy costume made from flannel pajamas and some dry ice on a dirt floor. You don't offer the real thing, nor should you or any government be expected to. But you do still have a job to do. I offer to you that smart people will be watching, the wise are paying attention, and great men of character do exist and will stand for what is right and defend those less fortunate and those in need of representation.

As president, you represent me, you do not control me, nor do you cleanse my soul. The Lord our God will judge us both. I fear the erosion of freedom of each individual in America. Liberal leaders cast blame on America's problems on men like Bush because he's an easy target. And then they lie about their own education, their past, their contacts, their motives, and their abilities. Perhaps you should prepare yourself for a day when history shows that Bush was key in keeping a large middle-Eastern missile out of the proverbial butt of America. I'm tired of watching you put wealthy men on trial for what seems to be just-for-show on tv, seeing you pacify governments that have long histories of violence and a hatred for America, and listening to you whine about failed free market strategies knowing all the while that those are the reasons you are not standing in line for 9 hours for bread on the street corner. What has done more to improve the standard of living in America for the poor: Wal-Mart or welfare?

Finally, not a day goes by anymore that I can turn on the tv and not hear that government is up to something to try to make the world more "fair". What could be more fair than forcibly imposing an idea like The Fairness Doctrine which should be renamed The Liberals are Not Entertaining Enough to Make it on Radio Doctrine? It seems to me that, more often than not, that "something" that government is up to has nothing to do with representing me, making me safer, or protecting my freedoms or rights. When you tinker with a complicated system, it often doesn't fit right when putting it back together. And yet, the government continues to tinker continuously. My request is simply this; in fact it is a demand:

Represent me. Represent freedom. Represent the law that was created to protect the people rather than make them servants to it. Ensure domestic tranquility and provide for the common defense. If you are going to use my taxes to buy stock in banks or automobile manufacturers and keep the capital flowing, then I want to see the stock in my brokerage account. I don't want an empty promise of hope or change. I want representation, and I want the proof. You don't always have to do something. Know when not to act.

You, government, are the only entity in this world except a bully or a thief to whom I must pay for services I neither want nor require. It's not just me saying that, it's the American people. And I know you've heard it from them for a long time. If you don't listen to us, we won't make the same mistake of voting you in office forever. You may think there is no need to listen or heed our demands. I'm sure that's what King George III thought as well. Will we have to declare our independence all over again? The days of King George are over, but as Thomas Jefferson said, "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."