If there is one saying that epitomizes the American way of life, or used to, it is this: "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime." When I was a child (1952), my second-most favorite comic book character was Superman and so I truly believed that there was nothing more noble than fighting for "truth, justice, and the American way."

Why is it that whenever we elect liberal idiots like Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, we lose any notion of American exceptionalism and respect for the American way.

Here is the Obama version of the old proverb I quoted above:

Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone with unlimited minutes, free internet, cash for clunkers, food stamps, section 8 housing, free contraceptives, EBT card, Medicaid, ninety-nine weeks of unemployment, free medicine, and he will vote Democratic the rest of his life; even after he's dead.

Here's the result of more than four years of Obama: according to a recent Gallup poll: 50% of Americans Believe America’s Best Years Are Behind Us (1).

Interesting. Only half the country pays taxes - that's most likely the half that thinks the best years are behind us. The other half of our country doesn't pay any income taxes at all - I wouldn't be surprised if they were the ones who think the country’s best years are ahead of us. Very interesting.

Perhaps it's time to take away the vote from those who pay no taxes. Why should anyone who pays no taxes vote to possibly increase taxes on those who do work and pay taxes?

No taxation without representation is evil. Even more evil and immoral is representation without taxation.

For my readers who are wondering who's my first-most favorite comic book character: Scrooge McDuck, a poor immigrant who came to America and became successful in gold mining, see my article When It Comes to Money Everyone is a Jew.

In that article I wrote: Even if Obama destroys our economy, brings this country to its knees, and makes a shambles of our health care system, there will always be these people I saw today, the true, real Americans, not the whining entitlement slobs that leftists have always catered to.