The Presidential campaign of 2012 is well underway and with it the fate of the American dream.  We have an incumbent president that believes that our American dream is composed of free healthcare, free school, free drugs, high priced gasoline and electricity from a magic box with a propeller.  While most American people are concerned about their families, raising their children, paying for a home, saving for a vacation or a retirement our president busies himself and his staff tearing down our social structure.  He chooses to do this with a flood of executive orders.

The mayors of two of the most corrupt cities in our nation can’t control the crime in their cities but they worry themselves with the possibility that Chick- Fil-A may open a store in their town!  Somehow I don’t see the threat in a company whose mission statement is “Be America’s best quick-service restaurant.”  

Ask any of the less than brilliant politicians that are quarreling over whether we should enforce our immigration laws or not, what is important, and I suggest that you will get a litany of issues that have no importance to the average American citizen.  Most of us would be very happy to pursue our own dream.  We might be willing to share our dream with others, but it is ours, not open review by some federal agency or found in search of a local, state or federal grant offerings.

Our parents, the ones we thought weren’t too brilliant because they could not set the clock on their microwave or VCR achieved something that was very important to them.  They raised children who, like they, now enjoy a better life than their parents or grandparents.  That is at least one leg of the American dream.  Children more successful than their parents.  The majority of those children achieved success through hard work and a dream, a dream that was their own.  They did not write to the federal government and ask them to crank the drum and pull out a dream. They had one of their own.  A dream they wished to pursue.

I know that you can throw up many smoke screens about what we need from government but, I will offer you the thought, what we want from government, what our government is constitutionally chartered to provide, is not what is being provided by the U.S. government.  We need a government that will enforce our laws get the thugs, drug dealers, embezzlers, off the street and lock them up.  Fix our infrastructure, fix our roads, our transportation systems, stabilize our energy supply, quit being a road block to our work and dreams. 

We need a strong defense but we also need to allow our businesses to succeed.  Since the US emerged as a world power following World War I, other countries have fearfully respected us not because of our Military but because of our economic might.  Part of the American dream is to demonstrate compassionate respect to our friends and allies and, if necessary, to forcefully earn the respect of our enemies.  

To achieve the American Dream requires hard work.  Government can assist the people if they are willing to reduce the burden on our businesses.  The businesses that comprise our economy.   We need a stable economic environment for all: the consumers, workers, business owners, corporation or stockholders all benefit from a stable economy.  The Dreams of America have nothing to do with same sex marriage but, everything to do with the freedom to achieve an economically stable life in the pursuit of happiness.