Noting a Gallup July 4th poll showing 71% of Americans think the Founders would be "disappointed" by the way the country has turned out, Star Parker argues that many Americans are living a contradiction: they hold the ideals of freedom while allowing those freedoms to be slowly eroded.
It is hard for me to believe that many in our country see no contradiction in believing that freedom can be an American ideal while half of Americans live in households getting some sort of government benefits.
Or that somehow a country can be thought of as free in which forty cents of every dollar the national economy produces goes to government at either the federal, state, or local level.
Or that government can put us in debt to the tune of the total value of the annual output of our economy.
Or that the real debt burden sitting on the American public is some $90 trillion – more than five times the size of our GDP – that represents the unfunded liabilities of social security, Medicare, and other government programs.
How can we see this as a free, moral country when we legally and casually use abortion as a means of birth control and provide hundreds of millions of taxpayer funds to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider?
Or that government can tell us what kind of health care we need and must buy and can tell employers what kind of health care they must provide.
Or that government can force employers to provide birth control and abortion pills to employees, even, as in the case of the Christian owners of Hobby Lobby, it violates their religious convictions.
Or that children go to public schools where it is illegal to pray or teach traditional family values.
Parker calls for "courageous leadership that will lead us back to the path of freedom and moral principle that inspired our founders and which is our destiny."
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