Huckabee: Declare your independencefrom big government

From Mike Huckabee, as featured on Human Events:

Dear Concerned American,

Soon after Barack Obama was elected President in 2008, a town in Alabama voted to make November 4th an annual holiday in his honor.

If the Democrats in Congress ever get around to doing the same thing -- and don't be shocked if they do -- let me suggest a name for the new Federal holiday.

"Dependence Day."

Let's face it: the day America voted for "change," what we got instead was something more like the complete demolition of self-reliance, one of our most revered American traditions, dating back to the Declaration of Independence itself.

"Change," as it has become evident, now means that Americans no longer need to rely on ourselves or our families, churches, businesses, or other private associations to meet our most pressing needs. All we need is one entity: the federal government.

Out of work? Don't worry -- it will "create" a make-work government job for you, by siphoning money from the private sector and destroying other people's jobs.

Need a car or a mortgage or a student loan? You've come to the right place -- the only place, actually, since it's taking over the auto and banking industries.

Need medical attention? This way to the Obamacare waiting room -- where the unionized nursing assistant will see you ... eventually.

That, my friend, is the future the Obamacrats are preparing for us. Will they succeed? Only if we don't fight back.

But don't think that we can wait until the 2010 and 2012 elections to do it. If we do, the burdens of higher taxes, soaring inflation, and widespread joblessness could well make the challenge of providing for ourselves and our families so extreme that we'll not only stop resisting the drive for an all-providing Big Government, but we'll start begging for it.

And that, frankly, is what the Obamacrats are hoping for.

That's why it's so important for each and every one of us [to] do what we can to throw off the yoke of Dependence Day. To reclaim our independence from Big Government here and now -- so that we can survive, even thrive, until that happy day when America tells the Obamacrats and their Dear Leader himself where to go (electorally speaking).