During Obama's recent press conference, he described in very clear terms what you must do to dig his Administration out of the mess he has created:  "We are all in this together.  We all have a responsibility to each other and to our country."

He wants you and I to pay for his Administration's destruction of capitalism, property rights and individual freedom.  He expects us to pay for the demise of our shining city on a hill!

No, Mr. Obama, we are not all in this together.  I will NOT be a party to the destruction of the country I love, the country that keeps me free, and the economy that allows me to succeed.

And I do NOT have a responsibility to anyone else.  I will NOT become a slave to my neighbor, so that  he can buy a new car, a new flat screen TV, or decide to vacation in Florida this summer.

The ONLY responsibility I have is to dig myself out of financial messes that I might make, to take care of my family and to take responsibility for my actions.  That is how my country survives and thrives.  And that is my neighbor's responsibility as well.  And if it means he has to live in an apartment, so be it...at least it's not a cramped little hut in Africa.

I am blessed with the gifts and talents that I have.  They are mine, not the federal government's to harness and exploit.  They were given to me by God.  Combined with the gift of free will, I have the opportunity to couple them with hard work.  And in a free market, based on individual liberty, I will succeed. 

I owe nothing to the federal government.  Mr. Obama, you consistently use the word country where you mean government, to invoke in us a sense of patriotism, in the hopes that we will easily give in to our own destruction. 

But in reality, Mr. President, you want no allegiance to the capitalist principles and liberty-enshrined ideals that created and sustained our civilization for two centuries.  Instead, you demand obedience to the heartless, mindless bureaucracy that has slowly suffocated our country in the last sixty years.

Obama continued his guile by saying, "When we all work together, when each of us looks beyond our own short-term interest to the set of wider obligations we have towards each other -- that's when we succeed." 

I have no obligation toward anyone but my family...to take care of them if they need it and to raise my children to be reasoning, reasonable human beings.  It's through my obligation to my family, through acting responsibly both morally and financially, that I am a patriot and a free woman.  By being self-sufficient, and through the self-interested use of my talents in the marketplace, I take care of myself so that no one else has to. 

It would be outrageously immoral of me to ask the federal government to grant me special rights that are unconstitutional and expressly forbidden by our Founding Fathers...to give me money that does not belong to me.  I empower the government as my own private ring of thieves when I take from them what they took from my neighbor. 

The federal government would love to take my "order":  Yes, I'll have one mortgage renegotiation, with a side of weatherproofing and how about one of those cable boxes to decode the new digital signal.  Can I ask, does that come with a side of car-purchase write-offs, or do I have to order that separately?  Yeah, and put it on my neighbor's tab, thanks.

But that is why Obama wants us all to buy into this bankrupt system of socialism...none of us will come out ahead...and we will all need his federal government to provide us with what little we may ask for.

Why would any rational, thinking, hard working human being want to be part of such a system?

There is so much more I could comment on, but I am tired.  I am tired of yelling in the canyon, only to hear my own voice echo back.  I am tired of fighting such evil, without political leaders who want to fight alongside me.  And I am tired of having to watch mind-numbing press conferences run by a socialist who shouldn't have been allowed to get near the controls of the most important country in the history of mankind.  Tomorrow is another day...

Why is it that a free people are willing to elect a President who constantly and consistently blames American success, for America's failure?

How can the American people be subjected to three years and ten more months of press conference after press conference of sixties-style radical delusions about our economy, our world and our purpose on Earth?

If you did not watch the Obama press conference, apart from being lucky that you didn't waste a boring hour of incoherent droning, you missed a perfect encapsulation of President Obama's shredded philosophy about your role in the economic recovery.

First, Obama spent most of his time blaming other people for the problems he has been busy creating in the last few months.  He blamed President Bush many times, he blamed Republicans in Congress and he complained that they don't have a budget alternative to his.  Most chilling, however, was the fact that he blamed AIG as a group of individuals who "brought us to our knees".  

It wasn't Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae who burst the bubble.  And it wasn't Congress who pushed the home mortgage industry to it's limits.  It wasn't Barney Frank or Chris Dodd, who lined their pockets with political contributions from these companies.  And it wasn't the trillions in spending, and thus over-whelming deficits, that the federal government just had to have...immediately.  And it certainly wasn't Obama himself, who was too busy laughing at our economic problems while single-handedly crushing our free market economy as we know it.

It could not have been those things that brought us to our knees, because those entities and people are government-based.  And government-based entities, according to Obama's incoherent ideology, are the ONLY answer to EVERY problem.  Period.  And according to Obama the private sector is always the cause of "bubble and bust" economic cycles.

Well, in a way he's right, I guess.  Since Obama seems completely unedg-u-mi-cated about simple economics, let me explain.  In capitalism, there are economic cycles.  We have growth, and contraction, and always in a free market economy, on the other side, we have more growth at potentially jaw-dropping rates.  

In socialism, however, we only EVER have contraction. Contraction of wealth.  Contraction of success. Contraction of ideas.  Contraction of skilled men and women.  Contraction of individual liberty.  Contractions of hard work and innovation. 

Most of the wealth, success, ideas, skilled workers and individual liberty dissipate.  Some of it emigrates to freer countries.  And some of it lands in the laps of the cold, calculating government bureaucrats.  But none of it makes it into your lap.  Not wealth.  Not success.  Not education, or skills.  And most certainly not liberty and freedom.

Obama is trying to use a necessary, healthy and intrinsic characteristic of capitalism, the presence of economic cycles, to argue against the free market system.  Central control, which sees no cycles because there is no growth in a socialist/communist economy, is Obama's answer.

Afterall, wouldn't it be easier to just accept a static existence of socialist poverty, than to experience the peaks and valleys of free-market success and, yes, sometimes contraction?  To answer this question, take a look at what you put on your dinner table every evening...even in this, the worst economy since the dawn of man.  And consider what North Koreans are eating for dinner tonight.  I'd say contracting your dinner menu to Hamburger Helper a few nights a week is better than serving your children cardboard and grass, which is what North Korean parents are forced to feed their children on a regular basis.

The problem with static existence under socialism and communism is that your economic graphs look like the worst possible readout from a heart monitoring station.  It flat-lines at the level of poverty, and the economy is never resuscitated.