More people the world over dream about COMING TO AMERICA.
Immigrants line up by the tens of thousands on our borders and enter our great country legally or illegally. All intend to pursue the so-called AMERICAN DREAM.
What exactly the American Dream is has never really been defined. Perhaps it is a collection of tens of millions of individual definitions. However, there is one common denominator, which is FREEDOM.
The freedom to choose, to be all one can be. The freedom to work and produce, to earn money according to individual gifts, talents, and capabilities, and to be individually productive without government coercion. Perhaps the freedom, as it was for the pilgrims and our forefathers of old, is that of religious freedom, the freedom to worship as one chooses and believes without persecution.
Despite this, what happens so often is the American Dream and the rights and privileges which America offers are fully exploited with no conception of duty or obligation to give back to this great country and to make sure the individual dreamer is doing everything possible to protect this great country.
There exists a sense of entitlement in America. It is often said “THIS IS YOUR RIGHT” without any mention of duty or obligation, or “YOU DESERVE” without defining exactly what it is you deserve, and, more importantly, WHY you deserve it.
The exploitation continues without obligation. So many in America, citizens or otherwise, do so little and regard the serious demands of citizenship as someone else’s problem or responsibility. So many leave it up to the government to solve problems and provide what it is:
WE DESERVE!
However, the reality in life, my fellow Americans, is we do not deserve anything. The only thing we really deserve is what we earn, and whether or not real citizenship reciprocity exists. WHEN WE GET, WE GIVE. Far too often we get without giving back to the greatest nation in the history of mankind.
Millions upon millions of wonderful human beings, really, truly great Americans, served and died for America, for freedom, for the rights and privileges you and I enjoy today. I truly wonder whether WE THE PEOPLE really deserve much of anything the way we seem to be trapped in indifference, inertia, and lack of involvement in what really matters. We seem to be becoming more proficient in exploitation and entitlement, and now growing, as we should and must, in patriotism, in love, sacrifice, appreciation, and duty for the preservation and continuation of this great nation.
America was founded in blood, the blood of patriots. Thomas Jefferson, our great thinker and President, said the following:
SOMETIMES IT IS NECESSARY
FOR THE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS
TO BE SHED FOR THE TREE OF LIBERTY.
I wonder whether WE THE PEOPLE are willing to shed blood, to fight and die for the protection of this great country and the incredible lifestyle we enjoy, or is this the responsibility and obligation of someone else?
If we are unwilling to shed blood, serve in the military, actively protect and defend, then are we willing, at least, to give the next best asset we can:
TIME.
To work at any level, high or low, in politics, in government, in decision making. To study and learn FREEDOM, our Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence. Are we willing to spend time learning so we can then become active in teaching what we have learned about this great country, are we?
Are we willing to take the time to train up our children, our brethren, our siblings, our spouses, our friends in the American way in which they should go, so when they are decision makers themselves, they will not depart from the American way, will we?
WHAT WILL YOU DO FOR AMERICA?
Millions come, or want to come, to America to pursue their version of:
THE AMERICAN DREAM.
My fellow citizens, my fellow Americans, what is your AMERICAN DREAM?
Do you have one? Can you verbalize and fully understand the dream, and make it happen every day of your life, and give thanks to God for the opportunity and privilege of doing so?
What do you intend to do with the life God has given you, and America has given you, which will fulfill all you can be? If you are truly American, you have received one of the greatest blessings which can ever be bestowed upon any human being:
THE FREEDOM OF OPPORTUNITY.
This is what you have received. Now, in return, with gratitude and with full understanding:
WHAT WILL YOU GIVE BACK TO AMERICA?
Something, anything? Or, as is the case with millions of Americans,
NOTHING OR VIRTUALLY NOTHING.
Those who died for freedoms, for America, for you and me, would be absolutely appalled at our conduct and commitment in this day in age. The freedoms we now enjoy are, said Ronald Reagan, only one generation away from permanent extinction. This may well be such a time. And, once lost, will be lost forever.
My father was an immigrant, a legal immigrant. He came to America to pursue his AMERICAN DREAM.
He was a patriot, and virtually more patriotic than anyone else I knew. My own love of America and patriotism comes largely from him. Whenever he left this country to travel, when he returned, the first thing he did when he once again entered American soil was:
HE GOT ON HANDS AND KNEES
AND LITERALLY KISSED THE GROUND.
That is how much he loved America, and I do as well. Do you?
So, I ask of you, fellow American citizen:
WHAT WILL YOU GIVE BACK TO THIS GREAT COUNTRY? WHAT?
You owe a debt which can never be fully repaid to AMERICA. You and I should be about the business of repaying this debt every day in which we are privileged to live in the greatest country in the history of mankind.
PAY THE DEBT BACK, AMERICAN!
The very least you can do is vote, and vote right.
Now comes Tuesday, November 3, 2026. You, my fellow Americans, better vote, and vote right for this country.
THIS IS YOUR DUTY AND OBLIGATION
AS YOU FULFILL YOUR AMERICAN DREAM.