According to the White House leadership you have to have the help of the “big government plantation owner.” The results of this failed policy and poor leadership will resonate throughout the world for years. It will produce an increased level of social dependency, sluggish economic growth, and low self confidence for all of our nation’s citizens.
Don’t expect a return to prosperity any time soon. It ain’t gonna happen folks.
We have now created a generation of citizens who think the world “owes” them a living and that everything bad that happens to them in life is someone else’s fault.
It will take new leadership in our country that can build individual character and accountability in the minds of the youth of our country. New leadership will have to teach all Americans that your personal decisions and actions determine your future. Your actions have consequences that you must face as an individual. You must stand on your own two feet and not be a burden on the country in which you live.
And before you can help others you must help yourself. We cannot have a strong global standing in the world if we are a nation of welfare handouts. We must face reality and understand that there is no “perfect” system where everyone is successful. That system does not exist.
Capitalism has brought more prosperity and created more wealth for more people than any other “ism” there is. There will be winners, and there will be losers in capitalism. We can minimize the losers by instilling in the people a belief in themselves, and that their hard work will pay off.
We are currently creating an ever increasing number of losers with our encouragement of social dependency. This must stop if we are to survive as a prosperous nation and halt the current slide down the hole of economic ruin and national decline we are currently in.
We recently celebrated Independence Day. We should ask ourselves if we are truly independent Americans with the pioneer spirit that founded this country, or are we now a nation of handout begging losers? The choice is ours.
It will take a lot of self discipline to turn down government handouts in favor of a good education and hard work, but the future prosperity of this country will depend on it.
Larry Oscar is a graduate from the University of Tulsa and holds a degree in electrical engineering. He is retired and lives with his wife on a lake in Oklahoma where he brews his own beer, sails, and is a member of numerous clubs and organizations.