The REAL State of the Union 2014

There will be many reviews of President Obama's 2014 State of the Union Address given on January 28, 2014 so here is mine. Obama's speech was uninspiring because it didn't call us to be Americans. It didn't assess America but rather it was a continuation of his 2008 campaign, trying to further promote his lite socialism. Where was the call to live out American principles? American principles which embody self-reliance and self-initiative? Instead, we heard over and over about so-called "inequality" as if life is EVER "fair". America was not founded to impose any person's idea of "equality" on anyone else, but rather to give EVERYONE the OPPORTUNITY to succeed, not the promise of taking from success and giving to failure.

THE STATE OF THE UNION

Our union is more divided than ever because at every turn, Obama and his fellow Democrats are trying to force class warfare on Americans. We are being told there is "inequality" that runs rampant and can only be corrected by the hand of the government. We are being told we can't decide for ourselves how to run our companies or even our lives. The government tells us it will have to intervene to make things "fair".

The Union is fractured because the Federal government doesn't recognize a union of states. Every day, the Federal government overrides not only the sovereignty of the individual states, but individual persons. The Federal government, either by way of its executive actions or activist judges, tells voters of individual states that they cannot decide how to run their states. Let it be clear -- there is no "UNION".

But is it all doom and gloom? Of course not, because of one thing Americans have always exceeded, it has been how to succeed despite government imposition. Americans, living their daily lives. America is more than a place, it is an idea that existed in the hearts and minds of every freedom loving person before anyone set foot on these shores. However, America the idea is something that needs constant defense. Not just military defense, but ideological defense. Every time someone, be it a coworker or a U.S. president attempts to erode the principles that are uniquely American, that person attacks the very thing that makes us Americans.