The American Dream is real, this is cool

Hard work pays off.  This inspiring video led to an incredible series of events as seen in the follow up videos (below). 

Gary Lamb did a video thanking Tim Pool and applauding president Trump:

What happened next?  Take a look:

This is why work effort is better than grievance. The American Dream is real.

Obama wrong on the American Dream

Collectivist president claims nobody is successful on their own.  True, in our world of specialization, nobody does everything alone.  For example, Bill Gates in building Microsoft, had to buy pencils - Microsoft didn't invent and create their own pencils and pens, and office furniture.  But to claim that the Pilot pen company had a hand in Windows development is a stretch.  Did the workers at Microsoft contribute though?

Certainly.  But they were paid for their work.  The vision, the drive, the true energy was from the founder.  Let me give you a better example.

Via Fox News, here's what the president said:

“There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me because they want to give something back,” the president said. “If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. ... If you’ve got a business you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

Here's Anne Morrow Lindbergh on her husband Charles' success:

He's been made an American hero, I think. And partly that he did it alone and I think that's quite American, actually, to do things alone.

Seems like they disagree.  It's hard to argue that Charles Lindbergh had a lot of help in his Atlantic crossing.  It was just him and his plane.  President Obama, like Elizaebeth Warren, is wrong.

The American Roadmap (Part 3 of 3)

(Continued from Part 2)

Previously I wrote about what the underpinnings of what the American vision should be.

But that is not the vision. That is merely the foundation or underpinning necessary to support a real vision. Without those guiding principles, the vision will ultimately fail because it cannot be supported. Nations that have tried to articulate alternate visions such as Marxism have ultimately failed or turned away from the ruinous policies and ideologies that have destroyed not only economies but people’s lives and liberties in the process. Conversely, too often conservatives, frustrated by the drift away from these ideals, substitute this for the final vision for America. It is not a vision. It is merely a state of being that enables the country to remain wealthy, prosperous and secure. It enables the nation to have a grander vision beyond sustainability. Understandably sustainability is an important goal, especially now. But it is not the end goal. What then is the vision that the country requires? It is simple actually because it has been articulated for generations based on the notions held by the founding fathers.

The American Roadmap (Part 2 of 3)

(Continued from Part 1)

Every great nation in history has existed from a position of strength. It’s often been said that the only price liberty will accept is blood. But what underlies great nations has always been a sound economy. America’s rise to power, like Britain’s before it, and Rome’s and future powers like China and Brazil and India, relied or will rely on a sound, robust economy. An ability to defend the nation, an ability to care for the downtrodden, an ability to go to the moon ALL depend on the wealth of nations. That wording is chosen deliberately because the wealth of nations, a work by Adam Smith postulates that market economies are the most productive and socially beneficial economies for their societies.

The American Roadmap (Part 1 of 3)

The job of President of the United States is not for the faint of heart. The job entails the responsibility of constructing, articulating and driving a vision for the future. It involves dealing with issues on a daily basis, which have nothing to do with that vision but must still be addressed. They must be handled with the same vigor that is applied to the President's vision, which by the way is typically shared by the electorate that empowered him. That is, if that vision was indeed articulated.