A Hero's Letter to Obama

Often times, I run across a rant from some American, who has come to realize what a serious mistake Americans made in electing a socialist community organizer to the highest elected office in the land.

But the following "open letter" to Barack Obama comes not from a disgruntled tax paying American, but from an American Patriot and War Hero, who gave three of his limbs to fight a war in Iraq, only to have over a decade of struggle be for naught.

I present to the Esteemed Readers of Fix America, the following letter from Senior Airman (Retired) Brian Kolfage.

"Senior Airman Brian Kolfage is a United States hero.  He is a triple-amputee veteran of the War in Iraq who has surpassed all odds and made the most incredible recovery of any veteran to ever survive his injuries.  He is a patriot – the kind of man you want your son to grow up to be.  This is his letter to Obama on Presidents Day.

My Open Letter to Obama on Presidents day.

I nearly died in a war that you and most of your colleagues supported overwhelmingly, including the two presidents who came before you. Many citizens may not agree with waging war in Iraq to free the oppressed Iraqi citizens, but it’s something that warriors like myself have zero control over. I joined to serve my country and to better my life. I’ve seen things that you could never imagine, and they have made me the person I am today.

Mr. Obama, even though we share extreme opposite views, we have one thing in common, we both attended school in Hawaii. However, that’s where the similarities end. You see, as you attended your exclusive, private school, I would ride my bike to Kaimuki High school in one of the roughest areas in Hawaii every morning and would ride past Punahou, the exclusive privateschool you attended. I would notice the Bentleys, Maserati’s, and fancy foreign cars that all the kids were dropped off in; wow it must have been extremely rough in Hawaii living that life, right? I could only imagine what it was like to have that kind of money. Fortunately for you, not many people are aware of the school and the upper class citizens who attended it. The tuition to attend your exclusive, private school was more than it cost me to obtain a Bachelor’s degree inArchitecture from the University of Arizona. You talk a big game when it comes to financialinequality, yet I’m quite sure you have no idea what it’s truly like to have sacrifice. You were one of the elitist children in Hawaii.

After High School, we each chose very different paths. You were able to attend Ivy League schools, and I sought out a military career to in hopes of earning a degree. What we have in life as children usually sets the tone for what we will face later in life that will make us successful. I worked to get where I am today, and YOU WERE HANDED IT….Mr. Inequality.

I volunteered to go to Iraq on both of my deployments, and the second time I begged to go even after I wasn’t selected, which ultimately got me placed on the team where I would lose both legs and my dominant arm. I’ve never asked myself was losing 3 limbs in a war worth it, even though many Americans were against it.

I am frequently reminded of the many young Iraqi children who would beg me for water, food, and toys while I was stationed in Iraq. Children, who in all aspects made the poorest of poor American children look rich. You have no idea what it really means to be poor. It’s laughable that you, who would have no idea what it means to be poor would so frequently play the inequality card.

While I was in Iraq, our mission was to liberate the Iraqi citizens from a tyrant and that’s what we did. Never forget, it was your people who sent us there, like the Clintons, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi & Carl Levin. However, since the day you busted onto the scene you’ve been talking about ending the war and pulling the troops out, not understanding the blood sweat and tears that so many Americans and Iraqi’s invested. And with complete disregard for every life sacrificed, every limb lost, and every broken family, you bailed on our mission to pursue an agenda that was completely centered on your re-election in 2012. If you didn’t bail on Iraq you were worried that you may not get re-elected and that’s a fact. Just before elections on Oct 11, 2012 you said “Al Qaeda is on the run and Osama bin Laden is dead.” Look at Iraq now, they are in shambles and the Al Qaeda flag is flying freely. Clearly, you’re unfit for duty as a Commander in Chief. You put your own agenda ahead of America’s agenda, and now you have single handedly ruined and destroyed nearly everything we gained in Iraq. It clearly means nothing to you, because the only thing that you’ve personally invested in that country was a promise to bail on them. However, people like me gave limbs, friends have died, and we’ve watched families destroyed by war’s aftermath.

I’m not placing blame on you for the war, I’m placing blame on you for destroying what we’ve worked so hard to build. You’re not a leader, you’re a community organizer. A leader would have stood up regardless of the situation and put America’s agenda first and that is ensuring a secure Iraq even after 10 years of war. But, you placed Barack first, just as Robert Gates confirmed in his new book. I can’t help but think of those poor kids who I gave water and toys to 11 years ago. They’re probably 15 or 16 years old now, and I can only imagine what it’s like for them to have their nation being torn apart yet again; all because of your poor leadership qualities. Regardless of why we went to Iraq, its water under the bridge. We went there, we waged war, and we not only owed it to our KIA’s but we owed it to the citizens of Iraq. We invaded their country and turned it upside down, and you bailed on them. You bailed on our soldiers and you’ve wasted every death and every limb, it’s all for nothing. And to make matters worse you blame others for your failures

You’re just another elitist rich thug who’s pretended to live the rough life growing up in the inner-city. You’re only worried about your own agenda and furthering your party instead of taking care of Americans. Your inability to be a leader at some of the most critical points has caused both of our wars to fail. You’ve been a joke to most of our veteran community and we have no faith in your ability to lead.

Senior Airman Ret Brian Kolfage USAF

- See more at: http://viralsurvival.com/2014/05/09/triple-amputee-veterans-fck-you-letter-to-obama-goes-viral/#sthash.5Z3Nbpw8.dpuf

Two Americas Tied in a Bow

"In early January 2014, Bob Lonsberry, a Rochester talk radio personality on WHAM 1180 AM, read his 'Two Americas' response to Barry Soetoro's/Obama speech on 'Income inequality'":

Two Americas

by Bob Lonsberry,

December 9th, 2013

The Democrats are right, there are two Americas.

The America that works, and the America that doesn’t. The America that contributes, and the America that doesn’t. It’s not the haves and the have nots, it’s the dos and the don’ts. Some people do their duty as Americans, obey the law, support themselves, contribute to society, and others don’t. That’s the divide in America.

It’s not about income inequality, it’s about civic irresponsibility. It’s about a political party that preaches hatred, greed and victimization in order to win elective office. It’s about a political party that loves power more than it loves its country. That’s not invective, that’s truth, and it’s about time someone said it.

The politics of envy was on proud display a couple weeks ago when President Obama pledged the rest of his term to fighting “income inequality.” He noted that some people make more than other people, that some people have higher incomes than others, and he says that’s not just.

That is the rationale of thievery. The other guy has it, you want it, Obama will take it for you. Vote Democrat. That is the philosophy that produced Detroit. It is the electoral philosophy that is destroying America.

It conceals a fundamental deviation from American values and common sense because it ends up not benefiting the people who support it, but a betrayal. The Democrats have not empowered their followers, they have enslaved them in a culture of dependence and entitlement, of victimhood and anger instead of ability and hope.

The president’s premise – that you reduce income inequality by debasing the successful – seeks to deny the successful the consequences of their choices and spare the unsuccessful the consequences of their choices.

Because, by and large, income variations in society is a result of different choices leading to different consequences. Those who choose wisely and responsibility have a far greater likelihood of success, while those who choose foolishly and irresponsibly have a far greater likelihood of failure. Success and failure usually manifest themselves in personal and family income.

You choose to drop out of high school or to skip college - and you are apt to have a different outcome than someone who gets a diploma and pushes on with purposeful education. You have your children out of wedlock and life is apt to take one course; you have them within a marriage and life is apt to take another course. Most often in life our destination is determined by the course we take.

My doctor, for example, makes far more than I do. There is significant income inequality between us. Our lives have had an inequality of outcome, but, our lives also have had an inequality of effort. While my doctor went to college and then devoted his young adulthood to medical school and residency, I got a job in a restaurant.

He made a choice, I made a choice, and our choices led us to different outcomes. His outcome pays a lot better than mine.

Does that mean he cheated and Barack Obama needs to take away his wealth? No, it means we are both free men in a free society where free choices lead to different outcomes.

It is not inequality Barack Obama intends to take away, it is freedom. The freedom to succeed, and the freedom to fail. There is no true option for success if there is no true option for failure.

The pursuit of happiness means a whole lot less when you face the punitive hand of government if your pursuit brings you more happiness than the other guy. Even if the other guy sat on his arse and did nothing. Even if the other guy made a lifetime’s worth of asinine and shortsighted decisions.

Barack Obama and the Democrats preach equality of outcome as a right, while completely ignoring inequality of effort.

The simple Law of the Harvest – as ye sow, so shall ye reap – is sometimes applied as, “The harder you work, the more you get." Obama would turn that upside down. Those who achieve are to be punished as enemies of society and those who fail are to be rewarded as wards of society.

Entitlement will replace effort as the key to upward mobility in American society if Barack Obama gets his way. He seeks a lowest common denominator society in which the government besieges the successful and productive to foster equality through mediocrity.

He and his party speak of two Americas, and their grip on power is based on using the votes of one to sap the productivity of the other. America is not divided by the differences in our outcomes, it is divided by the differences in our efforts. It is a false philosophy to say one man’s success comes about unavoidably as the result of another man’s victimization.

What Obama offered was not a solution, but a separatism. He fomented division and strife, pitted one set of Americans against another for his own political benefit. That’s what socialists offer. Marxist class warfare wrapped up with a bow."

Two Americas post from:  http://www.lonsberry.com/writings.cfm?story=3651&go=4

Income Inequality speech text from:  http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/obama-income-inequality-100662.html#ixzz2too6EJSA  as provided by The White House

In Liberty

What was the purpose for the creation of our Nation?

The Society of our Nation was formed from different groups of people who came from different societies which, in many instances, held different social customs, religious beliefs, languages, etc. 

The common characteristics, in general, were those of free-thinkers and people tired of being ruled and tired of having their labor, goods, and their freedom of speech and thought controlled by others.

While it is true that many people came to America to escape religious persecutions throughout Europe, many others were (regardless of their personal religious beliefs) coming  to America for secularist principles, not founded in any religious doctrine.

See: Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
by Susan Jacoby

It can be stated that religious intolerance did rear its ugly head in America, as related in the testimonies of the Salem Witch Trials, and which was also well noted in the Antisemitism attitude in the United States into the 1960's. But for the most part, people tended to their own lives and families without interference into the lives of others.

Our Constitution's First Article of Amendment states explicitly that, "Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise there of..." and although Congress has not legislated for establishing religion, they have passed many laws that do infringe on the free exercise of the religious beliefs of some. Laws that force people to do things that are prohibited by their faith are by their very nature are in fact unconstitutional and need to by nullified by the State(s) in which these laws affect the religious expressions of their constituency  A law such as ACA which includes mandates directing healthcare providers to provide contraception and abortion is a prime example. The prohibition of religious symbols from being displayed in a public building or a public employee's work space is another example of the government displaying religious intolerance.

The Constitution does not separate people into any groups based on religion or sexual preferences. The Constitution does not provide for the government to give special status to any group. And while there were blatant inequalities regarding Native Tribal Nations and to Africans brought to America as slaves, these  were the few constitutional exceptions and I trust that they have been remedied through the common sense of the people. 

Often times when confronted by the people, Congress defends itself for passing laws by referring to the parts of the Constitution that seem to serve their unconstitutional legislation. The "necessary and proper" clause and the "provide for the general welfare of the people" must not be construed to mean they can write and pass laws simple because it seems "necessary and proper" to the special interests served by the passage of such law(s). Sometimes it seems the best course of action is to take no action at all.

Happy Independence Day!

A Tribute to Martin Luther King

History will show that Dr. King was pioneer of equal rights but few will see him in the context that portrays him as a true Statesman. He was first and foremost a clergyman, a man well versed in the Christian faith.

Some will call him an activist although he was much more than that. Dr. King was a rebel, an insurgent who dared face down the establishment that kept race an issue and a nation divided.

A man who won the Nobel Peace Prize at the age of thirty five he was the youngest winner ever. But he was a man of peace in the same way that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were. He was for peaceful civil disobedience to laws that were unjust to any free individual as was all Americans as their birthright. He was a true patriot to country and a rebel against tyranny.

While much of the nation is focused on Obama's second Inauguration, and the second time he as taken an oath of office and lied to  us all, I will pay tribute to the memory of a man who stood up against a tyranny and gave his life in revolt against the system that allowed and even condoned the inequality in rights and freedom expressively given to all humanity by their Creator.

God bless you Dr. King. May your memory inspire others to stand with courage for the rights of all people.