Leadership

What does it mean to be a leader? Better yet what does leadership mean? To be a leader you must have leadership abilities, which means that people must trust and follow you. History is littered with leaders who inspired people to follow and failed a key requirement of leadership. To be a good leader a person must make good decisions. Making bad decisions or not making any decision can be fatal to a society. When any society fails to follow good leaders risk losing its cohesion and can collapse.

Now don’t get me wrong I have been in leadership positions for most of my life. I’ve run other people’s branch offices and franchised stores, Plus two different businesses that I owned. I’ve made good decisions and bad. I learned many years ago that if you don’t make mistakes then you are not doing anything. So life is a series of good and bad choices. No one can be correct all the time. The key is making more good than bad. The more good the better and as I’ve grown older I find that experience make it easier and sometimes almost automatic. But the odds of making a bad decision is always there, but not making one can be just as bad as making a bad one.

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I must also say that I don’t think that I could ever do the things that a President has to do. It has to be the hardest job on Earth. I consider the job of President of the United States the same as trying to herd cats. This nation is made of every nationality on the planet and every political view that exists. The idea of this country is tolerance and domestic tranquility, with individuals who are fanatically independent. This volatile mixture has made a country that prides itself on the highest standard of living in the history of humankind.

Trying to run such a country is not a job that I’ve ever considered. So I have a tendency to be a little more understanding of Presidents, as long as their basic ideas are in line with the overall principles that have made the country great. I feel that President Obama does not have the values of the average citizen. His Socialistic beliefs run in opposition to what has created such a prosperous and reasonably stable society. It is not perfect, but no one or system can claim such a thing. But this President’s ideas show complete ignorance, a blatant desire to ignore the past, or (as some are saying) a desire to create civil unrest and the destruction of the nation.

End-Dependence Day

The fourth day of July marks the day that brave men came together to start a brave experiment. They put their liberty on the line in an effort to cut the ties to a government that they found that they could no longer support. Their efforts continued for many years until they came together to form a union that was able to prosper and grow into a force as the world had never seen. This union has lived for many years and in many lives on till today.

July 4th of 2010 marked the 236th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence from British colonial rule. In all of those years we as a nation have faced many trials and tribulations. The nation has seen total war with devastating destruction. It has seen years of plenty and years of scarcity. But the thing that has held it together is a spirit unlike any other in the world. The thing that separates the US from the rest of the world has been a independence that lives deep in the soul.

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But that independence has been replaced by dependence in many citizens in this nation. It is easy to understand if you consider that people who live in large cities have, over the years; they have had to look to the local government for many services. When the local government failed to meet the promises made, they turned to the Federal government. This is a sad condition in this country. Too many look to the Federal government to be something it was not suppose to be. This dependence led to the Feds ignoring the wishes of the majority and passing a government takeover of the healthcare system. To this day many of those who pushed it through think that the opposition will go away once. They think that they did something good for the people. They've forgotten or never understood the true independent nature of many Americans.

Comprehensive Immigration Reform and The President

Today I witnessed the results of electing a President that was educated outside of the US. Well that is the only good reason I can think of for the creative American history that he tried to write. I guess rewrite would be more appropriate. This has the be the reason that Mr. Obama understanding of the history of the Statue of Liberty is so wrong. His lame attempt to connect immigration to the illegal aliens was very transparent. But I fear that a lot of Americans will believe him since they don’t know the true history of our country.

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I don’t know if the mistake was his or his speech writer, but someone did not do a fact check. What did they use to research the information on the Statue of Liberty? Or did they just wing it? Almost everything that he said was wrong. He did even get the inscription correct.


Once again the President of the United States talks in circles to try and confuse the issues concerning a foreign invasion of this country. By continuing to refuse to use the legal term of illegal alien he attempts to equate legal immigration with illegal actions. There is a huge difference between those who have gone through the proper channels and those who overstayed their visas or slipped across the borders.

But in a lot of ways this is not the real problem. The problem is a lack of trust in our leadership. The American people understand that the agenda of those in power has nothing to do with the laws of this nation or immigration. It is about power. We don’t have as much of an immigration problem as a leadership problem. There is a contradiction of what we are told and their actions. The President said that it is impossible to enforce the law. Would it not be more correct to say that he is not capable to enforce the law? He may just be unwilling.