Welcome back to your freedom

Wage slaves and disgruntled employees, hear me. This past weekend we celebrated the birth of our great nation and we reveled in the accomplishments of our forefathers so we might enjoy the best freedom can offer.

The most important part of the Declaration of Independence prescribed by the founders was this, Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Now just as a refresher, The Declaration of Independence is not a document of law governing the United States. It was merely a declaration to England that we weren’t going to put up with their crap any more. The phrase itself, “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”, is more a statement of theoretical ideology for a society. It is not a guaranteed right in the United States. That in its entirety, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”, it is clearly an idea, not a rule of law.

However, we do seem to feel that it is our unalienable right to achieve happiness or at least, the American dream holds some of that happiness for us. And yet, so many of us are still struggling with that dream in our waking hours. We go to jobs we hate or work incredibly long hours for the accumulation of goods that end up being meaningless trinkets. We kill ourselves doing things we despise just so that one day, maybe one day, our American dream will come true. The only way to really get that dream it seems is to work your ass off and there's no guarantee you'll be part of the 1% that makes it.

We have to work until our fingers are bloody and our back’s are hunched from years spent lifting or bent over a computer. And yet, we toil on, still hoping that American dream will come true for us. It’s no wonder so many Americans play the Lotto. We all want the riches America can offer but we’re not so sure about the work it actually takes to achieve it.  I know politicians have no idea what it really means to the average American to work and scrape for everything they have. To make decisions about taking care of a sick parent or working or paying for health care or losing a home. It’s sad that the American dream has become so distorted and those with the political wherewithal have done nothing to help.  

We are not lazy; we just hate what we’ve become. We need the right motivation to get our minds to remember what it means to have unalienable rights. We need our government to focus on the needs of the many and not of the few and get us back into the game and make it possible for those of us returning to work after a long holiday weekend, not to hate it so very much.

All we need is someone to really point us in the right direction and Americans can and will make their dreams of, Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, come true.

Now, get back to work. (Whip crack)