Pursuit of your dreams

All of my life I have seen the future as an blank blackboard ready to be written with your own hands. Even in the worst of times I felt the call of the future never believing I was to be handed anything. My future laid in my own hard work, education and persistence. Our new generations are being taught to wait on a parachute thrown to them by others. This over the years of my life has equated to a handout from the government. Some say life is too hard to achieve the "American Dream", I say that is not true and never has been for tose who understand that only you determine if you fail or win. Private corporations and small businesses take a risk everyday that decisions or markets will fail and yet they persevere through hard times. Why then do we need a bigger Government handing out entitlements and bailouts instead of promoting Education, Equality, Honesty, Ethics and Opportunity instead of Enabling our newest generations.

We need pro-active action not a hand out of excuses to depend on someone else for our existence. We have strayed from our founding fathers intents. They fought and died to create a free society where we could do what was necessary to achieve our highest dreams. I see little to nothing from our Educational system except the drive to collective bargain their way to better salaries at the expense of not teaching values that will motivate them to reach out for each of their chosen paths with self assurance. Unions have priced us out of marketplaces and whine that corporations outsource manufacturing to other countries to assemble our own products we use everyday.

As our President laid out the future to the American people I did not hear the words to inspire confidence in the future, instead a future laden with effort to keep even with Federal spending. These actions will further alienate our generations from competition in the workplace and in world economics. Collective bargaining only achieves two things, it lines the pockets of those in the group and it's administrators while increasing labor costs for our products which increases prices that prevent us from being competitive in world markets. The same can be said of Education dollars, denying more and more from attending good universities because of higher costs. These actions cripple America and turn us towards becoming a second rate Country in innovation while these generations wait for what they are Due.


Not one of us is or should or have been guaranteed our "American Dream", it is our pursuit of the dream that makes us strong. Do I promote a pipe dream or an ugly reality we have wrought upon our future generations? Teach values that put the fight back into our young generations, our President speaks nothing of these intrinsic values I was taught.