AMERICA, BACK TO SELF - RELIANCE IN 2008

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives
at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide;
that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion;
that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel
of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil
bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till...
( From Ralph Waldo Emerson, p 276, Prentice - Hall Literature
Series, Prentice - Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632,1991)

2008, TO END AMERICA' NANNY-STATE :
WELFARE, began with FDR's New Deal, with two goals (1) provide some relief to those devastated by the Great Depression and bring the Democratic Party back to power. Social Security and Workers' Compensation ( a percentage of earnings " skimmed off top and placed in ' lock-box ' for future need - Ha! Ha! ) to provide an economic cushion for those unable / unwilling to provide for self. Black Americans thought Social Security a wonderful idea. Thus began the false, most destructive love affair / with generational, everlasting gratitude towards the Democratic Party. As a vote-getter, the New Deal Social Security Program was a 'slam dunk ' and gave birth to " entitlements " that spun out of control into the ponzi scheme it has become. The PC's victory in legalizing abortion ( unintended consequence : people are living longer; replacements to keep the scheme going are not being born ), signaled the beginning of the end for the " lock-box / trust fund / ponzi scheme that is rushing towards its armageddon ! Welfare hand-outs should have work - low wage / or simply mandatory ( others work for the handed-out largess ) as an obligating part of the package. Checks should have the reporting address of a work station that administers aptitude tests that assess employability skills' training needs - classes attended after work . Preparation for independence - education - that lasts as long as an able individual receives financial assistance. There are too many young able bodied men and women who receive welfare checks, medicaid, rent assistance and support for illegitimate children, whose self-respect should dictate that assistance is temporary. as they prepare through education and job skill training to accept full responsibility for themselves. Counseling should clarify the role their behavior played in their predicament and demand for change.

DRUG CENTER' funding should cease to exist, immediately ! Honest drug abusers will tell you, " COLD TURKEY " works best. After three day the drugs are out of your blood, though they will forever be in your mind - situation / person can rekindle the desire. Counseling is essential, not more synthetic drugs. These drug centers provide jobs for Democratic PC activists and are a method of control. There is no real desire to stop the use of drugs, only manage the drug abuser. Drug usage seems to decrease during Republican administrations and increase when Democrats are in the majority. AA , Salvation Army and other faith-based organizations offer real hope to those sincere in desire for a better life. Participating individuals are required to accept some personal responsibility and the counseling assists the individual in looking within, not someone to blame. The organizations also require participating individuals to help / get involved - not simply show up for a meal or 'fix' !

SOUP KITCHENS have become SCAMS, big time - on TV there are beautiful, very healthy looking children being portrayed as starving - so please send money ! Soup Kitchens are on every corner and in every school - in one form or another. Every church and civic center group has a feeding program. These feeding programs are in addition to the government - Social Services - provided food stamps. More food is thrown away in a day than some poor countries get in a year. When is enough, enough ! Too much in the way of hand-outs encourage some to develop an " entitlement " mindset. End the ' gimme, gimme' prison. Bring back Self-Reliance.

UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE ( Medicaid takes care of very poor, PC lying needs to stop ) PC is simply seeking a way to incrementally impose a totalitarian system. Under the guise of taking care of health needs, PC renders ' duped ' totally dependent, keeps uneducated and defenseless, no guns for law abiders - they have done end runs around the Constitution [ Congressional regulations, to eliminate 2nd Amendment ] as they take away guns, but have personal armed bodyguards. Personal responsibility and self-respect dictates that workers provide for self and families they produce. Society will always take care of its very old, orphaned young and handicapped - AIDS / Drug abuse and laziness does not qualify. Actions have consequences !

UNIVERSAL KINDERGARTEN - indoctrination during the formative years, where PC gradually replace the authority of parents and extended family with a warped, perverted sense of their superior reality. When schools teach kindergarten children about HIV / AIDS, sexually transmitted disease, warning flags should be flying- is indoctrination into acceptance of "gay" lifestyle the real intent ? Or, when a third grader can be led out in handcuffs, charged with sexual molestation for innocent touching - once a slap sufficed. Young children used to play house and doctor and learned boys and girls were different - and learned from parents , not to touch each other's private parts. It's time parents took back parental authority and decided values family would learn and adhere to, or what heritage / rituals - Christmas / Easter Pageants, Halloween, etc would be practiced. Parents had better wake-up, reassert authority and decide what they want their children's curriculum to include. Put back recess with all its fun, competition and socialization processes where children compete and learn coping skills for life in the real world. Stop allowing children to be drugged to calm them down and then to speed them up again.

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY - insistence on acceptance that America is a land of opportunity - not an endless - cradle to grave - land of hand-outs. The Declaration of Independence acknowledged the individual's right to ' pursue happiness ' not be made happy by the government taking from some to give to another. Individuals are entitled only to what they earn, not what some PC government can confiscate through rules / regulations and excessive taxation, to be doled out in the form of bribes for votes that come to be viewed as " entitlements. "

UNIONS - need to be thrown out of the public schools' educational system. Teachers need professional associations that monitor professional ethics and academic preparations, not thugs who are concerned with numbers to dominate, blackmail and dictate the education today's youth, tomorrow's leaders will receive . In America's public schools all things PC should be scrapped : politically correct curriculum; attempted indoctrination to alternative lifestyles; determining other's personal value systems. In education, the educational focus belongs on ' reading, writing and arithmetic ' not on race and class warfare. Forget sensitivity training - PC's covert way of encouraging racism - class / race warfare. Prosecute, not transfer teachers who commit felonies : indoctrination of personal Marxist philosophy / drug usage or sex with students ! Insist parents assume personal and financial responsibility for the children they produce.

It may be news to PC, but the United States is actually a country with a distinctive culture, language ( English ), and borders. Perhaps there are some, who think this basic formation can be undermined by an influx of alien elements so that it can be broken up and demolished. Such a plan is purely subversive, even treasonous. Anyone advocating liberal immigration policies is not a patriot but an enemy. ... systematically importing foreigners ... exchanged - Asian, Latin American, African or some unworkable combination ... The politically correct reacts by accusing of "nativism."... none of this constitutes an argument against genuine love of country, or of one's own folkways... some multicultural idea, attaching to thinly disguised socialism, is upheld as Americanism. September 11, 01, America was attacked from within... attackers were Arab immigrants... members of an alien culture. When people sneak into America we become vulnerable to future attacks... This is not a racist position! ... Patriotic Americans should not run away from the truth because some politically correct bully dares to label them racist. It's time to stop embracing latest propaganda slogan about peace and brotherhood... part of the tyranny of wishful thinking inevitably accompanying the decay of reason ... the nonsense of multiculturalism promoted, truth suppressed...
( The Balkanization of America J.R. Nyquist: 02.13.02 )

Political Correctness has almost destroyed America. America' s national security has been compromised. America's borders are open to terrorists. However, PC uses euphemisms to camouflage true intent, i.e. substituted " undocumented worker " for correct, accurate term " illegal aliens ". All illegal immigrants are not workers and the problem extends far beyond lack of / or false documentation - Drug / Weapon smugglers / Terrorists do not sneak into America seeking low-paying jobs ! Even youth, educated in the United States at taxpayer's expense continue to identify themselves as citizens of their native country. This is PC encouraged balkanization. From demands that all important documents, to be used as I id's be recognized -drivers' licenses can be used by "all" for voting purposes ! PC are also demanding that practices from native lands ( exist alongside American law ) supplant American practices - Sharia Law that allows for public, televised de-capitation ? For over two centuries, language immersion, autonomy from government assistance, rapid assumption of American identity and eager acceptance of mainstream American Culture - has been dismissed as passe' . Thanks to PC attempts to destroy America, even voting ballots are often printed in languages other than English. That's criminal !

America has only one culture. The dividing hyphenation, e.g. African- American Chinese - American, etc., is nonsense that needs to end. One could live in China for a thousand years, but never become a chinese. Come to America, fill out the proper forms, wait the required time, go before a judge, swear allegiance, and viola ! you are an American. Language indicates an ethnic groups culture / origin.

Another important change needed is the selection of a better calibre of men and women to be voted / elected into office - Congressional and Boards of Education. Concerned Americans must begin to assess the character of those trusted with their vote. There is a need for more careful scrutiny of those we trust to make laws the rest of us live under or those who mold the future of our children. Power is addictive. One day, a politician-to-be is a ' gofer ' the next - it seems - elected to office, living in D.C. chauffeur- driven, always on TV ! In education, the would-be trustee pretends to have the best interest of children as a priority. Once in positions of power, they too select Superintendents who often could care less about the children and tend to hire teachers who share their philosophy.

Both elected groups need forceful reminders of just who really holds the power - he / she who giveth also has power to taketh away. It's time for voters to exercise the power of recall or choosing a replacement to defeat the incumbent that has come to see the office held as his/her divine right. When politicians do not deliver on promises made; can't get the expected job done, VOTE them out of office. Unless you are married or related by blood, there is no need to love a politician. There is a difference between a politician and a leader. Politician do, say, promise anything to get elected, re-elected -but, once in office, forget about it ! Leaders do what's right ( President Bush is a good role model ). Leaders are persons of character, takes pride in the worth of the individual looking back at them from the mirror. Leaders have principles they live by. Leaders are comfortable in their own skins, do not need polls for identity. Polls reflect what pollsters are paid to reflect. Honesty, diligent effort, concern for constituents and willingness to stand up, fight for beliefs - characteristics of leaders - will ensure re-election.

" Orwellian alliance of many libertarian-leaning conservatives embrace the idea of a perpetual supply of hard-working, unskilled and inexpensive workers - with the race industry of the left - which envisions an endless influx of unassimilated potential voters who can be appealed to on the basis of group rather than individual identity - tends to demonize any discussion of the issue. Opposition to massive illegal immigration is customarily and cleverly equated with disdain for immigration per se, hence characterized as un - American ( Issues & Views : The Coming Nightmare of Balkanization, Victor Davis Hanson, Prof. Classics CSU ) "
For politically (in) correct crowd pushing multiculturalism, America is not the melting pot proclaimed, but rather a magnificent mosaic of ethnic groups. Each ethnic group represents a tile, a brilliant reflection of the whole - one nation, different, yet, indivisible. Each civilization has a culture - defined by its customs, endowments, language, education, politics, government systems, technology, industry, religious systems, art and the rituals used to express these beliefs. Culture translates into identity. Roles and responsibilities are assigned by ethnic group and passed down from generation to generation as heritage. Ethnic groups choosing to call America " home " bring a rich history and native tongue, interwoven with traditions, customs and folklore, that should be maintained in the home, passed down by the family. Children learn their ancestors' history. As ' new' Americans, the culture must be embraced / internalized. Ancestral heritage, with all its rituals, food and festivals should be maintained, kept alive for knowledge and pride of seceding generations in the home. America's culture, history and language must not be altered to fit every ethnic group who chose to become Americans. American taxpayers should not pay for Muslim prayer rugs. In America's public schools, as part ( and only as a part ) of the Social Studies Curriculum, traditions of each other ethnic groups can be recognized and respect for the contribution. Any group with deeply held disagreements with aspects of American history should establish and fund their own schools ( Jews, Catholics, Lutherans and Episcopalians do ) or go back home ! Children should salute the American Flag and pledge Allegiance to the country that gives so much - to the world, as well as its citizens.

Neither Socialism nor Communism as envisioned by Engels and Marx - PC is struggling to perfect - has been successful in practice. Russia, East Germany, China, North Korea Cuba and Venezuela, etc are good examples. Humans forced to live under totalitarian regimes become zombies. No will to do anything other than survive. Seduced by promise of a utopia : no stress, no strain, all needs met, whether one strives or not. Government take from the strivers ( hated Westerners, especially Americans ) to fulfill needs of non strivers. Without benefit of striving, all stop striving, then the benevolent face becomes savage, diabolical. Totalitarianism must maintained through force - guns ! The " almost " devastation of Political Correctness in America, has finally become glaringly visible. America, the giant no longer sleeps. The once "communist totalitarian states " are struggling to join the world, be a part of its global economy. Some dictators struggle to have it both ways - a little capitalist, a little totalitarian - an impossible task that time will prove. A little democracy tends to expand and grow - remember, you can't ' un - ring ' a bell.

Maybe, for America's minorities, especially, black minorities, its just a matter of time before the emotional attachment to long forgotten " slavery " and the nurtured " victimhood ( by poverty pimps / race baiters with vested interested ) becomes just an unpleasant memory, dead, buried, never to be revived. When that time comes, it will bring the long sought " equality ". America, freed of the never-ending class / race warfare used by the PC to keep conflict going that shields its real agenda, America will get back to " SELF-RELIANCE. Individual's self-respect will be realized and demonstrated; acceptance of personal responsibility a way of life. America, its past time to kick Political Correctness to the curb. Time to allow America to become the magnificent mosaic of ethnic groups, forming one nation, each, representing a tile in the mosaic, a brilliant reflection of the whole - one nation, different, yet, indivisible - America, a place called home - SELF-RELIANT !