Happy Birthday USA!

 To paraphrase one of our greatest presidents, Eleven score and fifteen years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation…  We were a light to the world, and a departure and escape from the tyranny of old world forms of religion and government, the last, best hope for mankind.

Now, it appears as if our president is intent on bringing us down to the level of those very same institutions we fought to escape from; a giant leap backward for mankind.  So others would not feel left out, it seems like we have sacrificed the standards of our forefathers for the benefit of those who could not or would not live up to them.

We lowered the standards in our schools to accommodate the shiftless, unmotivated dropouts, we lowered the standards for citizenship to accommodate all the illegals who have all but bankrupted our social welfare systems,  and we, or should I say Barney Frank lowered the lending standards to accommodate all the social misfits who would not work to fit into the “American Dream.”  The net effect has been to destroy that “American Dream” for our children, and probably our grandchildren.

We lifted ourselves above the level of the third world because we were an industrious people unfettered by government regulation.  We should not feel guilty about what we have achieved.  If our “carbon footprint is ten times that of other countries it is because we worked and fought ten times as hard.  That is, and always will be, the way of the world.  We should not lower our standards to bring the rest of the world into the fold, it will not help them and will only damage us.

We need to abandon “Free Trade” and institute tariffs now, to protect ourselves from cheap, third world, labor.  Tariffs will bring manufacturing back to this country and we can, once again, measure our worth by our productivity.  That would be a great birthday present!