Here we go again…more B.S. from B.O on the re-election trail this week:

“If you get sick, you’re on your own. If you can’t afford college, you’re on your own. If you don’t like that some corporation is polluting your air or the air that your child breathes, then you’re on your own,” he said.
“That’s not the America I believe in. It’s not the America you believe in.”

 
Wrong, Mr. President. That was the America that the pioneers courageously crossing the mountains, and conquering the wilderness with their bare hands, believed in. That was the America that the founding fathers believed in while they were fighting for freedom from British tyranny. We’re on our own? Great! We’ll stand or fall on our own, thank-you very much. And we’re grateful for the liberty that allows us to do that.
 
Why does the Left insist on demoralizing people? Implicit in Obama’s rant is; “You can’t survive without Benevolent Big Brother taking care of you,” “You can’t make it on your own.”
 
Not only does the President’s rhetoric foster the development of a permanent underclass, it runs contrary to the very nature of human beings. From the time we learn to talk, our inclination is toward autonomy – “ME do!” We encourage that innate drive by teaching our children to walk, to study, to drive, to be responsible, to grow up and be independent. We certainly don’t undermine their confidence by telling them they’ll never be able to support themselves.
 
But now Obama and his merry band of Leftists are trying to convince adults that they really aren’t capable of personal responsibility, autonomy or independence ~ “You’ve fallen, and you can’t get up without total support (and control) from my magnanimous regime.”
 
While they’re on a relentless push to control every aspect of our lives by creating a permanent welfare state, here’s an organization that’s truly dedicated to helping individuals improve their lives through – yes – self-sufficiency. Poverty Cure is comprised of individuals and international groups who are first-hand witnesses to what really helps people escape poverty.
 
Like Bishop John Rucyahana of Rwanda:

“Most Africans have been made so dependent on aid and the relief, and loans from IMF, from the World Bank. … They perpetuate your misery by giving you a loan, make you a slave, an economic slave, and you also end up paying the raw materials because you are chained by the loan. So it becomes a way of colonizing the economies of the poor nations. But if the African nations today agree together to say, ‘No more aid; we don’t want aid. If you don’t give us grants, we don’t want it,’ I tell you, they can grow slowly, but they can grow.”

 
Poverty Cure has over 30 different video clips, featuring individuals like Bishop Rucyahana, men and women from all over the world. Their experience, and in most cases their very lives, testify to the truths behind the organization’s mission:

We know there is no single solution to poverty, and good people will disagree about methods, but we have joined together to rethink poverty, encourage discussion and debate, promote effective compassion, and advance entrepreneurial solutions to poverty informed by sound economics, local knowledge, the lessons of history and reflections from the Judeo-Christian tradition.
 
Christ calls us to solidarity with the poor, but this means more than assistance. It means seeing the poor not as objects or experiments, but as partners and brothers and sisters, as fellow creatures made in the image of God with the capacity to solve problems and create new wealth for themselves and their families. At a practical level, it means integrating them into our networks of exchange and productivity.

Leftist policies invariably waste money, potential and lives. If the President honestly wanted to help people who are struggling, he’d spend some time listening to, and learning from, those who really know what’s effective. Instead of telling Americans they can’t do it on their own, he’d be advocating what truly works; a hand up – not hand-outs.