~ Dear President Obama: Just Who Do You Think You Are, Gambling With My Grandchildren’s Future?

Dear Mr. President:

I have two beautiful grandsons, 3 and 7 years old.  They, along with my son, are the most precious things this life could have given to an average guy like me.  So, with all due respect, as I see the disturbing changes you’re trying to bring about in this glorious country of ours, I’m compelled to ask you one straightforward question: 

Exactly who do you think you are? 

There are varying opinions out there, as to who you are.  Some say you’re a messiah, or another Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Some think you’re an activist, or a narcissist, an elitist, a Socialist, an intellectual, a communicator, an empathizer, a borderline dictator…

But the real question is — who do you think you are? 

You burst on the scene from seemingly out of nowhere, ascending to the presidency of the United States of America with a mesmerizing flourish of charisma and eloquence, and breath-taking promises of hope and change.  You then proceed to oversee and undertake a complete overhaul of the greatest, most successful, most prosperous, most benevolent and generous nation mankind has ever known.  The nation is flawed, you say.  There is much wrong, you say.  There are unacceptable inequities, rampant corporate greed, ill-gotten wealth which must be returned to its rightful owners, you say.  And you’ve been sent to walk among us, declaring your intent to bring about fundamental change.

But in order to bring about that change, where do you look for examples to emulate?  Failed nations.  Failed political systems.  Failed ideologies.  Oppressive states and regimes that have decayed, rotted and fallen by the wayside.  Corrupt, evil governments that have ultimately poisoned themselves, or are on the way to doing so, by the Marxist-flavored ideology that you embrace.  East Germany, Cuba, the Soviet Union, Venezuela, China – nations that have crushed their own people under various forms of socialized or nationalized government oppression.  These are the nations you hold in high esteem as examples to follow.  

You have chosen, too, to emulate the soft socialist economic policies of modern European nations, most of whom can point to high unemployment, inflation, instability and generally, a mediocre standard of living — with noteworthy economic successes being few and far-between. 

In short, you are abandoning what works in favor of that which is proven to not work.  You’re piloting us from prosperity into failure.  You’re agressively and systematically transforming our economic system from one that performs better than any other mankind has ever devised and has paved the way for prosperity around the globe, into a system that will plunge us into mediocrity.  Sub-mediocrity, I could argue; some call it statism or fascism .  

With regard to American taxpayer money, you proceed with two flawed notions:  that our money is yours to do with as you will, and that the supply is endless and infinite.  You’re laying claim to my grandchildren’s money, and they haven’t even begun to make it yet.

You try to convince us that the economic future of America is inextricably tied to the development of renewable alternative energy sources.  But this is your carbon-emission, green-obsessed fantasy, and the fantasy of others who think like you.  The reality is, there is no guarantee that the energy sources (wind, solar, tides, etc.) to which you’re committing our money and our future will ever pay off the way you promise they will.  Private initiative – inventive entrepreneurs —  must pursue the future, not teams of scientists with orders from the White House and funds confiscated from the American people.  Your attitude seems to be:  “I have ordered it, therefore it shall come to pass.  And the American people shall toil to provide me with sufficient funds to fulfill my commands.” 

Answer me this, Mr. President:  If the answer to America’s financial crisis is to simply set deadlines, ordering American scientists to create technologies that don’t exist yet, then why stop there?  Let’s just go all the way – let’s set deadlines for the creation of time machines, and human transporters, and cures for every disease – heck, let’s finally get around to making those cool x-ray glasses for seeing through walls and clothes that never did work like they were supposed to.

To order the creation of as-yet undeveloped — indeed, undiscovered — technologies is utter folly, and it effectively robs my grandkids of their livelihoods in the pursuit.  Every proposal of yours, Mr. President, represents a massively expensive, high-risk experiment — a double-or-nothing roll of the dice with the family’s mortgage on the line, a desperate all-in poker bet with weak pocket cards, a long-shot gamble on hope and change with absolutely no guarantee of success.

And all your bets are courtesy of my grandchildren’s future earnings.

The channeling of money through the government constitutes the least efficient use of money possible.  I say again:  Private initiative must pursue the future, including alternative and yes, green forms of energy.  This has always been the successful process for discovery, invention and technological development in the United States of America.

But then – you don’t particularly like this version of America. 

And then, who do you think you are to condemn the U.S. Health Care system, the finest health care system in the world — high costs and excessive paperwork notwithstanding?  This is your other pet project which you incorrectly claim holds the key to America’s economic future.  You’re aggressively trying to restructure health care using our money, in the name of caring so much about all us helpless, hapless little Americans.  Your proposals have been proven to take a system of superior care and transform it to one of inefficiency, of hard-to-get, mediocre care;   from one that provides care for every single individual to one of sub-par care and non-incentivized research and development;  from a system where our young people now pursue careers as doctors, nurses and health care professionals to one where our young people will steer clear of medical professions.

That may be my grandchildren, Mr. President.  My grandsons may hold the potential to be the next great scientists, researchers, doctors, surgeons — and the message your health care restructuring will send them is: 

“Boys, go ahead and become those doctors if you want, but here’s how it’s gonna be:  the government sets your salary, and the government calls the shots.  If I say work for nothing, you work for nothing – or your clinic loses its government funding.  If I say terminate the pregnancy, you terminate the pregnancy — or you lose your license to practice medicine.  If I say grandma is too old to waste taxpayer money on, then you’ll move on to the next patient, whose age and health status fit our cost-efficiency assessments – or you’ll be paid a friendly visit by a couple of my close associates…

“Above all, boys, remember this.  Whatever your chosen profession — doctor, lawyer, banker, carpenter — if you have the audacity to be successful, and if you make the mistake of earning too much money, you will become the enemy, and we will take it back.”

President Obama, these are my grandchildren, not yours.  I want them to aspire to greatness, not mediocrity.  I want them to exceed all limits of creativity, success and wealth, not settle obediently for what you’ll allow them within your arbitrary boundaries.  You’ve taken it upon yourself to drastically change the country they were born into. and have set yourself up as the decider of their fates.  You’ve tossed aside the foundational principle of individual liberty — the one guaranteed by our “fundamentally flawed” Constitution, as you call it — and replaced it with a hard-to-define form of tyranny.  How dare you make my grandchildren’s future in your own image.  That’s not your job, nor is it your right.  Your job is to protect their futures — not to shape, burden and limit them.

Mr. President, with every passing day and with every move you make, you limit the American Dream for all of us. 

You call it change.  I call it destroying the most successful nation in history — and I call it sabotaging my grandchildren’s future.

– RB Stratford

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