Obama on Leno

So tonight President Obama became the first president to appear on the Jay Leno show while in office. I watched it to see what he would say and what questions Leno would ask. A lot was said about the A.I.G scandal and President Obama said that he thought there were many Americans out there that have this sense of entitlement about them. He also said that we are in tough times right now and that the country needs to get back on its feet and the only way it'll happen is if we get back to the principles on what this country was founded upon. In other words, what our forefathers taught. I started laughing as soon as he finished that statement. Not because I don't believe in that principle, but I don't see his policies as doing that. In fact, I see them going in the opposite dirrection. A lot of his policies are trying to make government even stronger in the lives of the people and more a part of their lives. Look at health care, finance, redistribution of wealth, housing, etc. More government involvement is what's being preached.
That's not what this country was founded upon. This country was founded upon principles of hard work by the people. The government is there to protect the rights of the people, not medle in their lives. If the people can't handle themselves properly it's not the governments responsibility to come in and fix it. How will the people learn if the government is there to bail them out? When you take away those responsibilities from the people, then democracy fails and the country will be in prime setting for a dictatorship or communism.
More government involvement leads to more sense of entitlement, leads to less responsibility from the people, leads to less involvement from the people, leads to the fall of this nation. President Obama is right, we need to get back to those principles that our forefathers founded this nation on. How was this nation founded? Through revolution, abolition from a government that failed to let them live their own lives. I'm not calling for war against our nation, but I'm saying that we need to stop expecting the government to jump in and catch us everytime we fall. We need to take responsibility for our own actions. If those actions lead to great riches and benefits then that's our right. If we decide to be lazy and not work hard then we also have no right to complain that the rich get richer while the poor get poorer.