Why I don't want the President speaking to school children

Our Nation's Renaissance Man, Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson, has been credited with stating well one of my core beliefs:  "The Government which governs least, governs best".  A corollary to this principle is the belief that "the government closest to the citizen, best respects individual rights."  Not nearly as eloquent to Tom Jefferson, but equally true.

When a politician holds the fate of 300 million persons in his/her hands, the ability to see each person's individual circumstance is quite limited, obviously.  So, the calculation that a proposed government program (universal affordable health care) will benefit millions and millions of Americans (while imposing certain unspecified or unknowable in advance costs and sacrifices on others) sounds benign, indeed. Particularly so, when the national leader's knowledge of each family's current assets and future obligations is vague, at best.  

One example of such a"Statist" outlook - centralized gov't. power is the true source of societal welfare - is epitomized by a few of Ted Kennedy eulogies:   "Senator Kennedy's unprecedented contributions to the good of the Nation far outweighed his private peccadillos." One commentator took this proposition to its ultimate illogical conclusion: "Mary Jo Kopechne would have been proud to have died so as to inspire Ted Kennedy to dedicate himself after Chappaquidick to servicing the public weal." 

In my America, however, every individual has the inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to reach his/her individual potential, with the government mostly staying out of the way. With hundreds of millions free to control their own dreams and destinies, overall societal benefits are best maximized.  No "great leader" has the privilege to drive me off a bridge, to get a better focus on helping the poor, the oppressed or the unmotivated.

Accordingly, I want the President totally focused on speaking to our military about national defense, our State Department about foreign relations and our Treasury about how much more of America's unsustainable debt he can sell to the ChiComs, Saudi and Japanese.

Our elementary schools are best lead, inspired and supervised by our local officials, teachers and most importantly, the students' involved parents.  Let the President be the US leader, not the President of every single PTA in the nation's many millions of very different locales.