The American Dream

The American dream is not about stuff or even home ownership. Our founding fathers died for our INDEPENDENCE. We have had a season of ease and prosperity. In this time we have forgotten what America is about. It is not about "Progress". It is basic. We can thrive or fail according to our own merits.
The Problem with any stimulus is not about pork or special interests. The problem with the stimulus is not necessarily whether it would work or not. Even if it did work (which it will NOT) I would not want to have anything to do with it. I would not accept it because it undermines our very independence. When individuals lose their independence soon will follow liberty.
You see, independence and liberty are inseparable yet different. Independence for individuals means we have the right to thrive or fail according to our own merits. If we become dependent on any government, system or person they dictate to us what we must do to remain taking support. Eventually they make it so that we must remain taking their support so they can stay in power, thus we become slaves and loose our liberty. Our founding fathers experienced this in many ways with England. That is why they formed the Tea Party. They experienced it with indentured servitude that became the same thing as slavery (since the "servants" owed so much to the master that they had to do what the master said).
We should trust ourselves with our freedom, even in economy. We should not hand that freedom over to a few government officials because we are afraid. We should not hand that freedom over because we made some mistakes that we are not willing to pay the price for and learn from. We should not hand our liberty over because it is our childrens' liberty we are messing with also.
Yes, the stimulus systems are set up to take away our independence and thus our liberty. Intentionally or unintentionally it does not matter. Freedom is the higher law in this debate. Independence, Liberty, Responsibility and accountability are what this is about. We should not be afraid of hard times. We should not sell our freedom in order to try and dodge the hard times, that will only make us weaker for the next blow, and more likely to give our freedom away.
We are Americans! We can do this without government intervention. We must do this without government intervention.
Our homes and property is worthless if we are not independent and free. As one of the great fathers of our country Patrick Henry said: "give me liberty or give me death!"