If I were to choose the right path for America

 If I were to choose the right path for America I would start by seeking the advice of our Forefathers.  In our history lies the answers to most problems that arise.  People are quick to dismiss solutions from the past always looking for progressive new concepts.  Why should we give up the ideals that have made this country great for centuries?  I understand progress in industry, medicine and education but to change the very foundation of our success and take away the incentives that have always made this the greatest country in the world makes no sense.  There will always be those who are dependents and there will always be those who strive for success.  By taking the incentive away from those who seek to achieve will not make achievers out of the chronic dependents.  It will just reduce our ability to produce wealth.  Taking from the rich and giving to the poor may have been a colorful idea in the fictional days of Robin Hood but it has been proven to be disaster for every country that has instigated such a practice.  Just take North Korea for example.  Compared with South Korea the north is in abstract poverty.  The Soviet Union is another example of the failure of this type of system.  They, by brute force held together   a group of Countries forced to live under their socialistic system.  Eventually it broke down and dissolved into what is now Russia.  There still is a Communist regime in place but they have evolved to employ more and more capitalistic concepts.

The United States has always been a beacon of freedom for millions of people who live under tyranny, the shining light on the hill that Reagan spoke so eloquently about.  The emigrant people who populate the United States have traditionally done so to become part of this great experiment in freedom.  They came to America to succeed and to become independent from an oppressive government.  In the last two decades we have been inundated with those who do not want to be Americans but want to use our system only to work underground tax free and use our emergency medical facilities & our welfare system.  I understand the desire to try to better ones self and improve their families opportunities but in any other country they would have been jailed for crossing the border illegally, not rewarded.       

For our country now to offer amnesty to those who have crossed illegally is a slap in the face for all those generations who came to America legally and have assimilated into our society.  This country has never been anti emigrant in fact it is emigrants that really built America.  It’s only when you inject politics into emigration that it creates animosity among our citizens.  We have divided ourselves into factions in this country in a battle for power, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Jewish Americans and any other hyphenated Americans that may want to get into the power grab.  When we once again consider ourselves just plain Americans and vote according to our belief system rather than our origins we will find the strength to rebuild this democratic republic relighting that beautiful light on the hill that made America great.