By Ernesto Cullari | Garden State Liberty
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.”
– Thomas Jefferson
Newark Mayor Cory Booker is hard at work attempting to pick up where recently deceased U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) left off. Most polls indicate that the big-government politico is leading in the Democratic Primary. While Booker once came to the rescue of Bain Capital after Obama trashed the private equity firm in the media, Booker’s recent proposals to expand the welfare state indicates that he is truly, like Lautenberg was, a tax and spend liberal intent on supporting Obama’s failed fiscal agenda, from Obamacare to amnesty for illegal aliens and all points in between.
You would think that New Jersey voters would be poised to break free from destructive fiscal policies that have led to the highest unemployment in the region, as well as to stagnant labor wages resulting from, among other things, illegal immigration…
How do you explain to a state or to a nation that’s drowning in debt that they are in need of rescue if they don’t realize that they are in fact drowning? A lifeguard knows that a drowning swimmer could be woefully dangerous to rescue because the victim cannot help but violently flail about, gasping and reaching for air, even as rescuers try to save them. Isn’t it the same with our nation’s problems? Each of us are gasping for air, barely treading the financial calamities that give rise to such worry. Yet others seem too content to give up their liberty for government scraps.
There are as many people on food stamps or food assistance as there are people working in the private sector, but you wouldn’t know this by watching the news, which is focused on Trayvon Martin and TMZ style reporting. In America we seem unaware as to the severity of our socioeconomic problems. Perhaps the media keeps us ignorant by reporting what polling data informs them we really want to know about.
Could it be the same with choosing our political leaders? Everyone says they hate Congress, but yet they keep reelecting the same treacherous people year in and year out. The disgraced Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer are deluded into thinking that they are fit for public service. But polling data says that many of you think they are too. Our nation’s problems are too dire for an uninformed electorate and too exploitable for ignoble politicians to handle. America needs to reclaim its spirit of revolution if we are to sustain the Republic for future Americans.
Running for Congress nearly cost me everything. Running for higher office requires so much time and intense focus that as a result of the effort I spent I may lose my job. Also, with my mind focused on the economic concerns of my community my small business lost nearly all its clients and I remain broken to admit that I too, along with most Americans, live paycheck to paycheck. But I would gladly do it all again and I would suffer greater hardships for your sake and for mine if it could mean freedom from the yoke of government intrusion into our lives and our work.
I would sacrifice much more to see accountability replace the corruption that thrives in local, state and federal governments. I would wager my valuable youth and my rare talents to reestablish the same liberties that our forefathers so valiantly fought to pass on to us. Each of you is equally gifted with various talents that can advance your liberty and mine if applied faithfully. What are you willing to risk so that your family will inherit this same freedom? Do you think Elliot Spitzer sacrifices for his community?
Consider New Jersey Congressman Frank Pallone, the man whom at the height of the Great Recession saw his wife Sarah Hospodor Pallone awarded a high paying job at the EPA. The corruptible Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) spent 87% of his wealth on reimbursements after it was discovered by the Senate Ethics Committee that Democrat political donor Salomon Melgen lavished upon Menendez junkets via a private jet to the Dominican Republic. These are not people up to the task of handling our nation’s economy or improving our moral standing.
The aristocrats that inhabit both the House of Representatives and the White House have grown powerful and / or wealthy at taxpayers’ expense. In just the last few years American households have lost 40% of their wealth, while the political class thrives. Author Peter Schweizer has chronicled their decadent exploits and our resulting hardships.
How can Pallone and Menendez attend the people’s business whilst they are so preoccupied with enriching themselves, their families and their donors?
My fellow Americans, we are at a familiar crossroads. Our unresolved past from the days of the American Revolution have come back to haunt us. We find ourselves at the intersection of our old big government self, which required that all suckle at the bosom of the English aristocracy and the Revolutionaries that sacrificed their lives and their families’ security to break all men and all women from government bondage.
We come from a lineage of Revolutionaries like; Washington, Adams and Jefferson, but yet we are ruled by a political ruling class of the likes of Obama, Booker, Pallone and Menendez. We should hold onto our freedoms more covetously. For we were born into a freedom that our forefathers, who were born subjugated, could only have imagined. But in order to change who it is that governs us the revolution might have to start first by changing whom it is we see when looking in the mirror. To have a better country perhaps we all need to be our better selves.
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