Our nation was founded by men who saw the abuses of Europe as an evil to be shunned. They fought to establish, not a Europe in North America, but a nation of states united for common cause, where sovereignty rested in the people instead of a prince. They understood that the import of European abuses would only lead to tyranny and serfdom so they established a Constitution to define and limit the central government. In effect the federal government is to be a perpetual servant—a slave if you will—of the people and the states.

Barack Obama, our legally elected president, each day turns his back on the goals of our founders and the nation they created. He has worked steadily to convert the US into a new Europe, following their lead in social issues, economy and government. From forcing companies to take federal money, dangling it before others and, now we learn, even refusing to allow some to return the money, the Obama administration has used a power never granted by the Constitution to control swaths of our economy. With near dictatorial powers over banking and investing and moves to interject federal control into the medical industry, President Obama is using fear and misguided zeal to tighten his grip on the reigns of power.

With the American people, once too proud to submit to foreign dominion, now groveling before the promise of federal aid and rescue, one can easily imagine Obama as the serpent in the American garden hissing poisonous promises: “You can be like Europe.”