November 11, 2011 No Apologies
Last week I attended the 5th annual Americans for Prosperity Dream Summit at the Washington Convention Center in D.C. The two-day conference featured a spending cut rally and numerous breakout sessions with some of the leading conservative operatives and commentators from around the United States.
Inside the walls of the convention center, hundreds of fed up U.S. tax payers participated in lectures on everything from exposing the liberal bias in the media, to informative “how to” seminars on testifying before a committee. The sessions were also a place for attendees to ask questions of the expert panelists like Grover Norquist, founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform, who accompanied me and four others from Montana to lunch to discuss Montana’s economic future.
Featured speakers included 2012 presidential candidates Mitt Romney and crowd favorite, Herman Cain, as well as radio host Mark Levin and Andrew Breitbart. Others present were former NY Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, author Jonah Goldberg,and NJ Judge, Andrew Napolitano, and Reagan author, Dinesh D’Souza to name a few.
Outside the convention center, though, wannabe rebels sang a much different tune, protesting capitalism cloaked in signs with mantras like “Human Beings not Human Resources,” and “Occupy Everything;” quite apropos, considering the efforts of the current socialist-leaning administration to work against the development of natural resources, thwarting local economies and nationwide energy independence, while occupying ever piece of land they can get their hands on, for conservation and other “off limits” designations.
Protesting not the overreaching government, but the corporate influence possessed by “1%” of the country, Occupants have deemed wealth holders the antagonists of freedom. These protestors now declaring anarchy represent a generation born into an era of entitlements. But there is something wrong with their estimation of unhappy riot-ready protestors…. Not all of them side with the “party of the mob.”
Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a nationwide organization whose faith in American ingenuity and work ethic foster the principles upon which this country was founded; economic freedom and the belief that ALL people have potential, that less government yields prosperity, and that every person is guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
That more than a thousand Americans filled the convention center last week decisively implicates that an assault on the aforementioned rights has taken place, and few cheated investors in the American dream will go quietly or without a fight; I’m referring to those hardworking Americans who’ve been cheated out of the fruits of their labor by none other than an overreaching government. I’m referring to those who showed up Saturday morning to participate in a plea to the federal government; “CUT SPENDING NOW!”
Among countless egregious acts of the current administration, including the forced passage of an unconstitutional health care bill now being challenged by half of the United States, the Federal Government has nearly spent this country out of existence; an existence as the first free Democratic Republic, the first free capitalist society in the world.
China now owns 1.2 trillion of America’s 14 trillion-dollar debt. An environment of socialist ideals, Keynesian economics, and entitlement programs has been mandated onto Main Street from the White House and the Obama Administration. And the results have been as disparaging as one could possibly imagine.
But the pseudo revolutionists aren’t protesting the Federal Government for intervening in the free market, for stripping Americans of their rights, or forcing the passage of blatantly unconstitutional legislation. No. Those now calling themselves “occupants” aren’t calling out the President and his pals for lying or bypassing congressional approval to further their liberal agenda. No. Their protests are a war cry from the left to undo what freedoms and opportunities we have left in this country, and why? To be taken care of by the government.
There is a greater faith, however, in freedom and in people. That same faith is responsible for motivating conservatives to rally together now more than ever to protect and defend our remaining rights as American citizens.
The Americans for Prosperity Dream Summit was imbued with this spirit, that of faith and trust in humanity and opportunity and freedom. The message to the Fed rang loud and clear; “Cut Spending Now” and NEVER make apologies for this exceptional shining city on the hill, as Reagan notoriously referred to the United States of America.
We are on the brink of a revolution, and there are still many Americans who will fight for less government and more individual liberty, just as there have always been.
God bless ‘em all, and let us not forget the debt we owe to those who’ve given their lives for our sovereignty.
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