Our American Premise

The guiding impetus for generations of immigrants to America was not the great "giveaway state" but the prospect of greater freedom and with that, economic opportunity. Irish and Italians, Germans and Russians, those who fled other Old World tyrannies, and even the Chinese who helped construct our Western railways did not come here to partake of some generous government dole, but to earn their way and create better prospects for their children. The promise of the new country was not to be guaranteed success but not to be denied the chance to work for it. We have a choice in November between Romney who venerates our founding ethos and Obama who is determined to supplant the vision of our forefathers with the socialism so many more recent arrivals in the United States came here to escape. Ask a Venezuelan who has come here if he sees a bit of Hugo Chavez in Obama? Ask an American from the former Eastern Bloc if she wants more dole or more liberty? Ask a small business owner if he wants to be guaranteed a perpetual place in the middle class by our Federal masters if that assurance comes with the string attached that the government will never let him earn wealth. If you are content with a modicum of mediocrity as the highest personal and national aspiration, by all means, vote for Barack Hussein Obama, but if you believe you can still rise in America, vote Mitt Romney.