While looking back through my pictures from DC, I found this one that I wish to make one of my campaign slogans, special thanks to IKEA furniture. I didn't expect to find such an indelible truth like this in the shadow of the Obama inauguration...
Like it or not, if we want to fix this country, it must begin in the home of every good American. Years ago in a radio address, a great American, President Ronald Reagan, said this:
All great change in America begins at the dinner table. So, tomorrow night in the kitchen I hope the talking begins. And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it. That would be a very American thing to do.
If we are going to change the direction America is headed, it must begin in the home, with the rising generation. I was talking to a friend earlier who asked me if I was ready to bring children into this world, and I asked her if she could think of any better man than I to birth children into this world. Yes, there is work. Yes, there is heartache. Yes, there are rewards. My life is testament to the rewards of a life of virtue.
The girls of which I lately wrote are being taught the wrong things in their lives. They are probably not being corrected at the dinner table. Many parents turn their kids over to Wii and TV to babysit and entertain their children instead of seeing to their responsibility to raise up virtuous men and women of character.
Instead of going home and paying homage to the paper, House, CSI, and the like, entertaining though they may be, I urge Americans to make an investment in the intellectual heritage of this nation and take the reigns of education in their families. Remember that tyranny is built from the top down. Liberty begins at home. That's where values are learned. Don't make them wait 20 years to come to a person such as I in a classroom who has to turn back 20 years of ignorance in a paltry 33 hours maximum of class time during the semester. There's only so much I can do.
This image is proprietary, but the theme is copyright of IKEA Corp.
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