The Philosophy of Liberty

The philosophy of liberty is based upon Self-Ownership and self-responsibility. You own your own life and you own the right to run it in anyway you see fit. You do not own the lives of others and have no stake in how they run their lives. Top-down approaches to social change do not work. They never have. If we all lived by a simple rule life would be so much better. Imagine that you have a problem. In order to solve that problem, follow this flow of logic: First solve it yourself, if that is not possible then ask your family to help you solve it, if that is not possible then ask your neighbor, then ask your community, then ask your church/club/civic organization, then ask your town, then ask your county, then ask your state, FINALLY, if you can't solve it on any of those levels, THEN ask your Federal Government. Obama says do the opposite. Ask the Feds first and whatever you do, DON'T rely upon yourself. If you cannot rely upon yourself, have no family, or live in a neighborhood where no one cares about you, then ask yourself why that is? Is it societies fault? Are you really a helpless twig floating down a stream? Or are you at the helm of your own ship and can steer another direction? The choice is truly yours. Ironically, President Barack Obama, like that of no other individuals life, truly exemplifies how an individual can turn a series of bad circumstances into personal prosperity. Who would have thought that a mixed race minority child from a broken home, with a working class mother, with an absent father who abandoned him, would have the ability and determination to become President of the most powerful nation on the planet. He did it, why can't you?
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