Lady Liberty

4063677017?profile=originalLady Liberty stands in New York Harbor proclaiming: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

Lady Liberty: A beacon of freedom the entire world sees.  A symbol of a better way of life anchored in liberty, opportunity and equal protection under the law.

Inspiring yes, but that is not the entire story.

Lady Liberty also stands as a reminder to America that the the American way of life is why people have come to this country for centuries.

What the world is currently witnessing is the collapse of the European socialist economic model; the failure of government dependency. As more people become dependent on government, fewer people are left to pay the cost.

But it goes beyond simply spending other people’s money. The socialist entitlement mentality makes people less productive. As more and more people become less and less productive, an ever-smaller minority of productive people become responsible for shouldering the burdens of a completely lopsided, unfair system. When a tiny number of productive people are required to deprive themselves of the fruits of their own labor in order to finance the lives of the remaining population, where is the incentive for them to produce?

If that is not enough, reliance on a big government nanny state makes people less responsible for themselves; less self-reliant. That is the antithesis of the American way of life.

When European settlers colonized the New World, they left the security of Europe behind in favor of North America’s unknown wilderness. They left homes, family, friends and country in exchange for an opportunity to build better lives for themselves. They were freed from the constraints of Europe’s restrictive class system.  They openly rejected the European way by their leaving.

When the British Monarchy deemed to re-impose that system on Britain’s thirteen North American Colonies, that attempt was adamantly and thoroughly rejected. Hence: the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution and the founding of the United States of America.

When America’s pioneers ventured forth to traverse the Great Plains and cross the Rocky Mountains they were completely self-reliant. They took care of themselves. They did not have, want, or need a big nanny state government to take care of them from cradle to grave.

This is the stuff of which America is made.

Because it gives them control over “the masses”, “progressives” have long sought to fashion America after the European socialist model, to make Americans more government dependent. There was FDR with the New Deal and Social Security. LBJ gave America the Great Society, Welfare Programs and Medicare.  Then, Obama forced upon an unwilling America the crown jewel of European style socialism; government controlled medicine.

Every time “progressives” hold a press conference they sound exactly the way they have always sounded: they inherited the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Their policies are working, but need more time. Congress needs to quit stalling and enact more of their policies. The private sector is doing fine but to grow the economy government needs to spend more money to create more government jobs at the state and local level.

Repeatedly, “progressives” show exactly how out of touch they are with the private sector, how the American economy works, the lessons of American history and the nature of America’s people.

Europe will not work in America. Neither will out of touch narcissists who insist on imposing a long rejected European system upon America.

It is time for Americans to reject the following proposal, long foisted upon America by the self-imagined, self-appointed, “progressive” intellectual elite:

We, the government, are your lords and masters.  You will do as we say, not as we do.  For we are the enlightened "progressives" and you are but melting pot bitter clingers.

http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2013/03/16/lady-liberty/

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  • You nailed it.  I've used the same argument in some heated exchanges with the very few liberal relatives I have.

  • We have the people with the name recoginition and we have the peoplewith the finances to make it happen. If they would only unite with each other, and unite with the 67% of We the People not in the moocher/looter class we could change everything.

  • Ever wonder why this "resident" is like teflon -- nothing sticks -- no matter how unfair, outrageous, blasphemous, bad, incriminating, illegal, immoral, unconstitutional -- and yet the sheeple bow down and worship him no matter what he does or how badly he treats "We the People?"  Why is that?  A few see him for what he is, the rest are just drinking the rosy red Kool-Aid.

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  • IT WAS 1977 , ON MY WAY BACK FROM EUROPE , WHE I FIRST SAW HER . SHE TOOK MY BREATH
    AWAY ,, THIS IS THE MOST MAGNIFICENT COUNTRY EVER , AND SHE IS THE SILENT , MAJESTIC
    WITNESS OF IT .
  • So what about the Muslims who come here, masking their way of life as a religion? They are not intersted in the US as a Constitutional Republic but want to install Sharia Law, treat women as dogs,kill Christians, and when our society rejects them they claim religious intolerance.

  • I keep wondering what is the hold up? Obama should have been removed from presidency long ago.

  • We The People have a fraud and usurper sitting in the White House going by the name of barack hussein obama using a stolen social security number , forged birth certificate and forged selective service registration card to prove he is a legal sitting US President .

    We The People demand the US Congress honor their oath to the US Constitution and remove this fraud and usurper barack hussein obama from office under Article 2 Section 1 Clause 5 of the US Constitution .
  •   I understand Mr. Fell's view & there is a lot of truth in this however the moral decline in our nation began many years ago even before the socialist & communist agenda began integration into our educational systems.  Where the Constitution & Amendments is not followed there the disintegration begins.  As people progress (doing whatever THEY want) not realizing why they have the security & liberties we have then follows what we see today.  

  • People found out they could vote themselves a pocket full of cash.

  • I agree with everything you have written.  The problem, as I see it, is the moral disintegration of our society since progressivism raised its ugly head. Too many people want handouts instead of working for their own goals. I'm not sure (since they are called entitlements) if or why they are including Social Security and Medicare in the 47% of people who are receiving handouts, since workers and their employers paid for Soc. Sec., which was supposed to be protected in a lockbox so politicians could not put the money in the General Fund for their own purposes (which, however, was not protected). I do know that I worked for 50 yrs for that Soc. Sec. stipend, and every male in my and my husband's family died before they could collect any of it. I know that in that 47%,  millions of illegal aliens are collecting welfare, low-income housing, food stamps, medical care and free education, even though they didn't pay a dime for it. I know they have contributed to the sky-rocketing crime rate, for which we have a penal system that we cannot afford. 

    Though the lack of moral consciousness among the current population has contributed even more. The multiple-generation welfare families must be weeded out, and welfare turned to workfare, where those who are unemployed must be forced to learn a new, needed skill by attending classes if necessary.  But the real problem is the corrupt politicians who have made careers out of stealing from the people, working against their wishes, and ignoring all their demands and complaints.

    We need to  a.  reduce all term limits to two, including local, state, and federal; b. outlaw all lobbyists and make all states "Right to Work" states; c. Change all politicians to Social Security and Medicare, with no retirement perks, since it is no longer a career;  d.  become Energy Independent with our own resources;  e.  Stop funding all GREEN enterprises, and well as stop all aid to our enemies; f Reduce corporate taxes so that our manufacturing jobs can come back from foreign countries;  g.  Repeal ObamaCare;  h.  Arrest Obama and his cohorts for Treason for his illegal presidency and their collusion, for Fast and Furious and its coverup, for the stalling of (and putting in Federal Court instead of the Military Court) theFt. Hood massacre (to be renamed Terrorism instead of Work Place Violence, partly so the victims can receive the Purple Heart), and for their collusion in the Benghazi massacre along with all those who had a part in it.  

     

    Then, we must get rid of the EPA, the FED, the Dept. of Energy, and all duplicative agencies of the states' own agencies, as well as the IRS--by changing our tax system to the Flat tax of 10 percent. 

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