Everyday millions of Americans watch the changes instituted by Barack Obama with stunned amazement. While in Europe, the President bowed to the Saudi King, apologized for this nation and called us “arrogant.” To top it off, he rejected the Judeo-Christian heritage of the United States by labeling America a “secular” nation similar to Turkey. At the Summit of the Americas, the President warmly embraced socialist strongman Hugo Chavez and talked about a new relationship with the communist thugs in Cuba.
His domestic agenda is even more radical. Several weeks ago, administration officials leaked their plan to create a path to citizenship for the 12 million illegal aliens in this country. Most Americans do not want to create a “path to citizenship” for illegal aliens, for that is amnesty for lawbreakers. Americans want our laws enforced and our borders secured, but Barack Obama has other plans.
Add immigration “reform” to the long list of policy initiatives that will be introduced by the Obama administration. There will be healthcare “reform,” energy “reform” and education “reform.” Each set of “reform” proposals will cost trillions and add to our ever-growing national debt. From the stimulus plan to the omnibus spending bill with 9,000 earmarks to the $3.6 trillion budget, the administration’s thirst for radical change seems unquenchable.
Americans have seen a $700 billion Wall Street bailout; a $275 billion housing mortgage bailout plan proposed, radical cap and trade initiatives and health care programs that will cost trillions. Where will we get the money to pay for all of these programs that we cannot afford? Of course, we will print the money and further weaken the value of our dollar.
By November of 2008, Americans were tired of the Republicans and George W. Bush, but they did not give their approval for socialism. Generally, Americans are conservatives who believe in limited government. Yet, the Obama administration’s spending appetite is so gargantuan that we are engaged in “generational theft” and spending money for future generations that have not even been born.
All of this radicalism is producing a counter reaction and the best way to gauge that is the nationwide uprising of tea parties that were held on tax day April 15. On a day when Americans paid their taxes to a bloated, inefficient government, taxpayers throughout the nation expressed their outrage by organizing 2,000 tea parties. The protesters rallied against a government that does not represent them, in the spirit of the American patriots who dumped tea in the Boston Harbor tired of “taxation without representation.”
Locally, there were massive rallies staged in Metairie, Slidell, Hammond, Covington and Mandeville which attracted thousands of people. Patriotic citizens gathered to express their outrage at what is happening to our country. The USA is changing before our eyes and we don’t like what we see.
Sadly, Barack Obama sees threats from “right wing extremists” as more dangerous than communist foes such as Cuba and Venezuela. In fact, the President’s Department of Homeland Security has targeted disgruntled veterans and right wing activists as potential threats. It seems that there were FBI agents among the crowds at various tea parties across the nation. It is sickening that our government was spying on patriots who were exercising their 1st Amendment rights to protest the policies of their government. The Department of Homeland Security should be concerned about our porous borders and not spending time and resources investigating tea party protesters.
These tea parties are a refreshing sign that the people of this country have been awakened. We want to let our leaders know that we are watching them and will make our voices heard. It is the most encouraging sign that I have seen in this country in many years. It means that we have a chance to save America.
We can’t stop at the tea parties. It is only the first step, as the pressure and the vocal opposition to big government must continue. Taxpaying patriots must start getting engaged in every aspect of our political system. We need to stop the forward march of government at every opportunity. The road to socialism is not a path that this country can afford to take.
In fact, we must step up our efforts to get ready for the next round of elections in 2010 and make sure that we turn around this ship of state and start moving toward constitutional principles, the ones that were so eloquently outlined by a group of visionaries called the Founding Fathers.