I haven’t written much lately, perhaps because in order for me to produce anything worth reading, I have to be inspired, be stirred from my already restless slumber to focus my thoughts and express myself in prose. And so the feeling strikes me now, and I shall try my best to relay in words my latest thoughts on the plight of this country. There are so many stories we don’t get to hear, great stories of survival, of people rising above, helping out their fellow man in this economy, but there are also the stories of heartache many Americans are presently faced with. As each street corner store closes, each for sale sign gets placed in the crisp grass of suburbia, each marriage dissolves as a result of the current economic strife, one can’t help but wonder, how do we collectively cope with this as a nation? We are being held down and entrepreneurial America is being threatened within an inch of her life. No matter how the Orwellian machine that now runs this country tries to manipulate the reality of the situation, we all are feeling the darkness engulf the free market and our lives.

Some may say the true measure of a man is not the car he drives, the clothes he wears, the kind of home he lives in, but rather the content of his character. Well I say that the ability of man to pursue his dreams and aspirations unbridled (which often results in monetary success, if one perseveres enough) is inextricably tied to his character and overall well-being. The entrepreneur built this country from the ground up, and now he is fighting for his life, fighting to survive under the crushing hand of a novice socialist with hoop dreams of reconfiguring America. He goes to work each day knowing that his zenith is now being determined by another, that with each business move he makes, it must be predicated on the unforeseen threats the government has in store for people trying to succeed on their own. It’s a nightmare, and it’s no wonder people are so afraid to spend money. This administration is creating a culture of dread and fear, a constant feeling of apprehension, where no one feels a sense of security, not in their jobs, not even in their place in the republic.

They are trying to break us America; they are trying to break our spirit. We don’t know what lies ahead, and we don’t know how much more we will have to suffer, how many more jobs lost, lives destroyed out of sheer arrogance and hunger for power, but what we do know is, they may take away the environment in which we can prosper but they can never take away our will to succeed. When the dust has settled, the worrying, anger, and sadness that comes as a result of losing what you have worked so hard for, we will still be Americans. You see this is the only country in the history of mankind to be bred out of individualism, and no matter how hard they try break us down, we will make it through this. So just hold on my fellow Americans, this too shall pass.