Original Source: Liberty & Prosperity
Author: Seth Grossman
Right now, my top priority is doing everything I can to help Republican Mitt Romney defeat Democrat Barack Obama. I am also working to help Republican Joe Kyrillos defeat Democratic Bob Menendez for U.S. Senate. And to re-elect Republican Congressman Frank LoBiondo. I am reaching out to everyone I know, and asking them to vote that way.
The reason is simple and personal. I think Obama, and the ”progressive” Democrats who support him, are tearing down everything that allowed me and my family to succeed in America. If Obama gets four more years, and “progressive” Democrats keep control of the U.S. Senate, Supreme Court, Senate, radio, TV, AOL, and Yahoo “news” networks, colleges, and public schools of this country, the America we knew and loved will be gone forever.
My grandparents came to this country with nothing. They asked for and got nothing from the government but freedom, and low taxes, so they could keep what they free to earn. Within ten years, they owned their own homes and businesses. They saw their kids (my parents) get excellent educations and pursue careers and lifestyles they never dreamed of.
As Jews, my grandparents and parents faced discrimination and insults. But because the Constitution and a government of equal enforcement of equal laws protected their lives, liberty, and property, they were free to ignore, and overcome them. Had they gone to almost any country in “progressive” Europe, they would have been rounded up and turned into soap.
A hundred years ago, very few passengers on the Titanic believed their big, comfortable ship could sink. Today few Americans believe our country can collapse.
But students of history like me see the danger. And so do immigrants from “progressive” countries.
In the 1990’s, when my kids were young and my wife and I both worked, Cristina, a woman from Nicaragua cleaned our house once a week.
By chance, I recently ran into her. Over the past 17 years, I learned Spanish and she learned English, so we had a real conversation for the first time.
At some point, I asked Cristina if she saw the debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama the night before.
“No. I can’t even look at Obama without getting sick” she answered. “Es Comunista! (He’s a communist!)” she then said, switching to Spanish.
When I asked what she meant, she said “Everything Obama says is word for word what Daniel Ortega (the Communist dictator of Nicaragua) said when he took over. Ortega said the same sweet words. He promised to do everything for the poor. But he ruined the country. Now nobody works, nobody builds. The only people with money in Nicaragua today are the few people with the government.”
Then she said “I ran away from the Communists in Nicaragua. Now Obama is bringing all that here”.
During the 20 years Cristina and her husband were in America, they bought and fixed up several rental properties while they both worked two jobs and raised their children.
Cristina is now afraid that if Obama stays in, her family will lose everything to pay even higher taxes to bail out people who could have worked and saved like she did, but chose not to.
“Progressives” think it is “old fashioned” to limit the power of government to simply protecting the freedom of each individual to make his or her own choices—without using that freedom to deny the same freedom to anyone else.
Progressives say this promotes the “idolatry” of “greed”.
But isn’t it normal for everyone to want a better life? And with limited government , aren’t people free to refuse to buy from “greedy” corporations that offend them?
Obama’s federal government now effectively runs General Motors, the five biggest banks, and almost every mortgage company in America.
When the government takes over big corporations, everyone is taxed to pay their big salaries and losses, even most people choose not to buy and pay for their products. How does that stop corporate greed? And since when are people who run big government less greedy than people who run big corporations?
http://libertyandprosperity.org/weekly-update-october-7-2012/