the demoralization of america

To quote Michelle Obama "for the first time in my adult life, I am proud to be an American". I hate that quote and believe whole-hearted that she did not mean it. Now in this state of America I can be quoted as the opposite of her. "For the first time in my entire life I am saddened to be an American". Land of the free, Home of the brave, and now home of the lay down at any given moment society. I work for a living and worry about my income. I will never allow myself to be given a government handout, because that hand out ultimately comes at my own expense of years of hard work. I don't back down to enemies because they claim they are stronger than me, and I have fist fight memories of those. Where has the American family values gone? Where has the values gone of work hard and die trying gone? Where is the American dream that eventually, not now, I will own a home. Not a dream home, but a home. Have we lost our own grasp on history, do we not understand why a large and cumbersome government was the basis of our independence? Step back for a moment and forget everything that you've accomplished. Do you want to ignore, or adhere, everything your congress tells you? Or, as much as we don't want to, stand up for our rights? We are a land of survivors and rejects, yet we still have in the past, managed to create the most opportunist place for like-minded people that have the will and desire to succeed and be effective citizens. This is the envy of the world and we cannot ignore, deny, nor desigrate from that optimistic value.