by Tony El

Created on: June 23, 2009

Is it me, or is July 4th ever referred to as Independence Day? The typical American is so disconnected from our Constitutional past, for the fight for independence. We give great lip service and slogans of being free and put on great celebrations and make elaborate spectacles of ourselves. But, hardly is the 4th of July referred to as Independence Day anymore. So, what is it that we're celebrating? Does anyone care? Is it too politically incorrect to say it? Or is it that we don't want to furnish a lie?

As we applaud soldiers in uniform on cue, place flags in our yards, and lip-sync the words to the national anthem at sporting events, give a thought to what it's all for. Do we even know why we do it? Is it just something to do because we think that it is expected of us, as all eyes are on us? Yet, if we should dare to make too much to-do about being American, like placing a flag on our desk at work, wearing Ol' Glory on our t-shirts at school, or demanding that American values and language be dominant, we risk great disfavor in this era of extreme political correctness and fear offending someone.

As I look around, I see little sign of Americans and less of America's freedom or independence. Freedom and personal responsibility have become words that are spoken as 'times of back when' and 'in the old school days.' Today we seem to be unwilling to take personal responsibility for our actions, which is the major consequence of personal independence and freedom. Today government is more involved in the lives of the American citizen than at any other time in the nation's history. Too many of us have grown weary of the burden of freedom.

The notion of government entitlement, is rampant. Government regulation of what we speak, what we think and what we do with our time and money, is at an all time high. There are more citizens working for the government and dependent on the government for our very existence then ever before. Our public/government school system is one that teaches not to be free-thinkers, entrepreneurs, or independent, but how to be workers, conformist, and to be dependent on it [the government]. The existing political currents seem to be hell-bent to make America so financially, intellectually and morally destitute, that we have no choice but to go to the world with cap in hand and prostitute ourselves to the world's benefit and pleasure.

Over the past 16 years, U.S Administrations have sought fit to turn a nation that once was a world exporter

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