"Fare Well, or Welfare!"

My Mom and Dad were married for over fifty years; my parents were both 22 years old when they wedded. They met in high school and spent their lives in the kind of marriages most people only dream about. Dad was a dedicated husband and father in every sense of the word; his family was always foremost in all of his actions. He was strong, yet sensitive, without losing his masculinity. I believe my mother was the most precious person he ever had in his life, and he always treated her in that way. I guess he was an “old fashioned guy” when compared to the men of today who become “baby daddies” and run from responsibility at light speed. Morality was a little different then, than it is now. Marriage was something considered the moral and proper way to have children and raise a family. There were people who were divorced back then, but that was considered a last resort, as most people wanted to save their marriage. Today, divorce is much more prevalent than in generations past; any excuse seems acceptable for a man and woman to end their marriage. The term “irreconcilable differences” seems to be the “catch all” when people seek to end a marriage; nobody wants to do the work to mend a broken marriage. In the “old days”, people worried about their children before they worried about themselves; now children have numerous “aunts or uncles” who “sleep over” at the homes of their divorced moms or dads. Children suffer the most in a society that endorses the quick end to traditional marriage.

When we look in today’s prisons, we see countless inmates who came from homes where the father was never present, or had several other children with several other women. Most of these men never went to the trouble of getting married and have passed that belief on to their younger generation. This modern lack of a moral code of conduct is one of the main reasons we have swollen welfare rolls and a deluge of unwanted pregnancies.

The “Free Love” of the 1960s spawned the welfare generation and the “Me Generation” that threw responsibility to the four winds. I personally believe that rape became more prominent since those “good old days”, because that “free love” turned women into sex objects instead of possible lifetime loves. Suddenly the term “good girl” was a stigma instead of a value to be desired, a way for a young girl to show how valuable she was to herself; sex was more than exercise with a “yahoo” at the end.

The Republican National Convention starts this week, and it will definitely be a contrast to its counterpart from the Democrats. America has already shown it is fed up with our loose and easy society. People are filling our welfare rolls at record numbers and our President wants to end the work requirement in the welfare program. Our President endorses abortion; he therefore endorses premarital relations, another loosening of our moral code of conduct and a continued weakening of American values.

We have a man in Mitt Romney who has been a dedicated husband and father his entire life, and belief in a good moral compass for America pointed toward individual responsibility for those who choose to become “baby daddies and baby mommas”. He will restore the work requirements of the welfare program, not underwrite a “welfare society”.

Will America go back to the 1950s; of course not, but it will return to a society of responsibility and moral values. If we don’t take the steps necessary to retrieve those lost values, we will lose America in short order with four more years of this “Welfare President”. Which America do you want, one that “fares well”, or one on welfare?