“We are all Socialists Now”, screams the headline of Newsweek last week. I was disappointed that Newsweek would be so presumptuous as to assume that all Americans support Socialism. Obviously at least 47% of us voted for the Republican in the last election. We would most likely not be considered in that socialist group. There are others that voted for the Libertarian party that would be surprised to find that they have been lumped together with the socialists. I have never been a socialist, nor will I ever be a socialist. I have never support a socialist idea and I cannot conceive of a time that I ever would support a socialist idea. That is why the headline is so offensive.

I know why they put the banner on their magazine. The “stimulus” bill passed Congress last week. Contained in the stimulus bill are numerous socialist agenda items. Since the bill passed and is to be signed by Barack Hussein Obama today in Denver, they will become law. They were not supported by any real Republican in the House or Senate. To call Collins, Snowe or Specter Republicans is to sully the term Republican. They are turncoats of the lowest order. They knew or were supposed to know what was in the bill. So, supporting a bill that contains socialist agenda items is wrong for America. We do not need a western European socialist state here in America. What we need is freedom. Freedom is what made this country great, not government. God gave us freedoms and the government ensured that those freedoms would be respected. As long as that relationship was maintained, this country led the world in everything. As soon as the government started granting “rights” we started on a downward spiral. To get us out of this spiral, we need to get back to the foundation of what made us great and that is the fact that God gave us the rights and the government merely respects those God given rights. The government does not grant anyone any rights to anything. God grants those rights and the government just respects those rights. The proper order should be maintained at all times. When it gets out of place, we start declining.

Our country has been in decline for a long time. It started out small in the 1930’s with Franklin Roosevelt. It has now snowballed into an almost unstoppable avalanche. We must stop the avalanche of government at the expense of freedom. The way to do that is to take our government back with people that truly believe that government is there to serve the people not the people are there to serve government like we have in Washington today. We have a few in Washington that do understand the proper relationship, like Jeff Flake or even Jon Kyl. Every Democrat believes that the people are here to serve government and it is the government that made us great. Both are false arguments.

The first false argument is that it is the government that made us great. That is not true on its face. It is true that our government got out of the way and allowed us the freedom to be innovative Americans. If that is your tack that government made us great from that angle, then you are mostly correct. The second false argument comes from the first. If the government made us great, then it is the purpose of all Americans to serve the government that made us great to make us even greater. This is a false argument. Americans are great in spite of government, not because of it. Americans are taught to think for themselves and this is what has separated us from other countries during war. In a war, if you kill our officers, our enlisted men will take over until all are gone. In other countries, if you kill the officers, the unit is almost completely unable to function. That is how we defeated Germany and Japan; our enlisted men were able to make command decisions that their enlisted men were incapable of doing.

We are moving toward the kind of country that we have always despised. We despised those other countries because they could not function without their officer class. We are turning into that type of a society. I do not want to live long enough to see it happen in my America. I want my Americans to think for themselves and do for them to make themselves better. That is how we became the best and how we can become the best again. The German best were better than our best. But, our second thru one thousand+ best was better than their second thru one thousand+ best. That is why we won. German guns were better than ours. German tanks were better than ours. German airplanes were better and faster than ours. Yet, we won the war because we could make our inferior weapons do the job that they could not do with their superior weapons.

American spirit and can-do attitude is what has made us the best. Socialism will destroy the American spirit and can-do attitude. Socialism saps the strength to survive out of a country and eventually it just dies thru disinterest. Democrats want us to emulate Western Europe and go down the socialist road. We need to resist that siren song and head down the individualistic road of independence. That is where true greatness lies. We want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We do not want life, liberty and equality. Equality is what killed the French Revolution. Equality is what is destroying Western Europe. It destroyed Russia. We do not want it to destroy America as well.