To date, I have complied 75 articles on this site with this being my 76th.  Many of you have deduced from some of my writings that I am this or that. I felt compelled to clarify a few things about myself and my stance on certain issues. I hope that this can be accomplished in only three volumes, but it might take more.
 
This is Volume One of the Average American Tenets.
 

1. The Government of the United States of America is ill suited for its current role as father figure and provider for the masses.
 
1a. Many times over the last 50 years the government has set out with the purest of intentions to eradicate a problem only to deepen or worsen the problem. Cases in point: Social Security and Welfare.
 
1a1. Social Security was created during the Great Depression from an amalgamation of different state run programs to help the poor and infirm elderly populations. It was never designed for the numbers of people who currently receive benefits from the program. It was never designed to allow for survivor benefits to underage children of deceased parents nor for drug addicts who could not work due to their “illness”. Although modified several times over the decades to accommodate these recipients, it can not be sustained in its current or any other form. There simply are not enough people paying in for the growing number of recipients and at some point in the very near future the system will simply have to be scrapped or the tax rate for SSI will have to become so large that it bankrupts the nation as a whole.
 
1a2. Welfare was created out of same desire and obligation we have as a united people to assist those most in need. The system has been bastardized over the decades since LBJ first championed his idea of the Great Society allowing for families benefiting from the systems to raise their incomes by simply increasing the number of mouths they have to feed. It also shifted focus away from the entire family unit and began to concentrate on the single parent family which most of the time reflected a mother and children. In these cases, early on in the programs life, it began to de-emphasize the importance of the two parent home thus leading to a change in the way society as a whole viewed the situation. Fathers, it was determined in many minority communities began to be fazed out of the equation all together as mothers discovered that the state would step in and fill that role as father and provider. This in and of itself has lead to an increase in poverty and minority children having a less advantageous start in life.
 
 

2. The Constitution of the United States has been usurped leading the states to take on a secondary role in governance and responsibility to the masses. Cases in point: Education and Infrastructure.
 
2a. Education according to the Constitution is the sole right and responsibility of the many states, yet today the Federal Government has taken control of our schools thru extortion. If the states do not offer certain classes or provide these classes in accordance with the Federal Governments requirements, financial aid for education will be affected. This covers everything from sex education to score rating systems to final exit examinations designed in partnership with the Federal Government. In addition, the Federal Government has acquiesced a percentage of its power to the Teachers Unions who have the as their main interest the teachers and not the students.
 
2b. The Infrastructure of the United States of America, while being the financial responsibility of the states though the various Departments of Transportation in each state, is dictated to some degree by the federal funds available to each state. These funds from the federal coffers are awarded based on a number of criteria, ranging from requirements that the state recognize Federal Holidays and to the speed limits in each state.
 
 

3. Conservatism is not Racism, nor is it Homophobic or Bigoted.
 
3a. The idea of holding all races, religions, creeds, colors and sexual orientations to the same very high standard and then requiring them the achieve these standards is the very definition of tolerance, acceptance and equality. To lower a test requirement on a race of students is to suggest that they are not able to perform at the same level as the others for whom a higher score is required. If this alone was changed the implied need liberals have for quotas would disappear due to all applicant being of the same caliber of education not reflective of their race if not yet with the same experience or time on the job. In every race, social economic class or educational level of achievement you have those who outperform others. This is the level playing field to which the Civil Rights Movement of the 60’s was dedicated.
 
3b. Insisting on providing others with your sexual orientation is to flaunt in their face the fact that you are not desirable of being considered equal to others. Heterosexuals do not make a habit of openly discussing their orientation through marches, bumper stickers or rallies while demanding to be held equal in the eyes of the law. To fire a person based on sexual orientation is wrong, but so is insisting that everyone know that you are homosexual. It does not matter who you are involved with in your personal life, it is your personal life and should have no bearing what so ever in your professional aspirations.
 
3c. Bigot as defined in the dictionary: “One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ”.
Intolerance is the key word in this definition. If looked upon from a purely technical viewpoint, any person can be called a bigot. Where you live, what you drive, where you shop, where you eat; all of these things can be used to identify you as a bigot. However, the fact that you like to be around people in church who believe as you believe, that you shop in a store that sells the things you and other like you desire, if you live in a community that is predominately one race or another, does not by default define you as a bigot. It means you share an affinity for similar lifestyles, nothing more. Bigotry along with Racism is usually defined by people as a solely Caucasian state of mind and is usually played under the auspices’ of employment and job termination. The very tenets of Conservatism stand in stark opposition of this idea. Conservatism is by its very nature in search of the very best regardless of Race, Greed etc. and is dedicated to providing leadership and training to all peoples to assist them in climbing up the social economic latter to success.
 
I shall continue this as I feel the urge to do so.
 
But what would I know; I’m just an Average American.