The Facts Behind the Curtain

President Obama thinks he has found the message to recruit young people back into his camp. He wants to prohibit Congress from raising the interest rates on Stafford loans, and judging by his performance last night on the Jimmy Fallon Show his message is landing. Young people like myself cannot be fooled by the smoke and mirrors trick the President is pulling on us.

This President has put America's youth in a predicament we as a country haven't seen in generations. America's college educated youth have no job market and limited opportunities. As more and more Americans are attending college and receiving degrees how can young people support a President whose policies have undoubtedly led us into a job market where our skills where be under utilized?

More young people than ever are moving back in with their parents. Half of all recent college graduates are unemployed or underemployed a statistic that frightens me as a graduating senior. These statistics can be traced back to the job killing regulations and policies crafted by a man elected on the backs of the youth.

Obama managed to get the youth vote out in record numbers in 2008. He's trying to blind them now by covering up his record and only showing further disregard for a deficit already out of control. Barack Obama has no desire to pay down the deficit or create an environment suitable for economic growth.

The only way to re-stabilize America's future is to give the new college graduate the ability to succeed. Without a new generation of entrepreneurs and job creators how will America replace the jobs lost in the recession of 2008? America's finest youth are in dead end jobs because of the Obama economy. We must have a president that is pro-growth, pro-free markets, and pro-economic liberty.

The GOP will need every vote to challenge the Obama machine. We must work to pull back the curtain of Stafford loan promises and introduce America's youth to the truth. President Obama is not your ally. In three plus years all he has done is taken the most precious of things from you. He's taken away your ability to succeed and secure the American Dream. It is now harder to start a business, harder to higher employees because of ObamaCare, and even harder still to compete in a tumultuous economy.

It is up to all of us to try to turn this country around. If young people continue not to recognize the source of their frustration they will always be a rubber stamp for the American Progressives. They will continually dig themselves further into a hole without knowing it. The rich and the fictional 1% will get the blame as the elites in Washington slow the economy down so we can be one of many and not exceptional.

The Mitt Romney You Have

The following link will lead you to my Carbondale Tea Party Speech delivered on April 15, 2012 at the Scranton Federal Courthouse.

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Race and the Right

Between the National Review article and the tragedy of Trayvon Martin in Florida the perpetual myth of those on the political right as racists has reared its ugly head once more.

If you have been a conservative for longer than a day you've probably faced the calls of racist from your less informed liberal friends who wish to show you the "compassionate side" of their arguments. Today there seems to be more of this on the national scale and the push being made by prominent leftists is in no way grounded to historical facts. Allow me to set the record straight.

As a brief overview of our ideology we believe in natural rights as given to us by God. These rights have to be recognized by government for that government to be recognized as legitimate. It has been the march of those carrying the call enshrined in our Declaration of Independence to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness that sought to free the slaves, fight the Confederacy, and limit the government's restrictions on rights you receive because you have inherent worth as an individual.

Conservatives fight against the unhealthy growth of government. They recognize that government takes away the rights of individuals in order to expand its own power. With a government truly limited the rights of the individual are boundless. No man can keep another man as a slave and treat him as less than human.

It was the conservatives that pushed back government by defeating the Confederacy and freed the slaves by pushing back government and allowing their natural rights to take over. It was those who sought to expand the growth of government that created the Jim Crow Laws and looked to remove those rights once more.

The conservatives look to level the playing field so that the playing field is as equal as human beings can make it. Once government steps aside it is only man. Man may be flawed but he cannot in good conscience keep his fellow man down.

The media, which is spear-headed by leftists and progressives, will do anything it can to portray those on the right as being intolerant. They will attempt to showcase our policies as racist. It is up to those prominent members of the conservative movement to take this moment and showcase why racism is so inherently opposed to liberty and natural rights. Andrew Breitbart would have been salivating at the opportunity to beat back the firestorm created by prominent members of the media.

We need to come forward and nip these kinds of issues in the bud. Conservatism is directly inverse to racist policies. With a small government respectful of the rights you are born with racist policies are impossible. It was under the guise of "compassionate politics" that allowed government to restrict the rights of its citizens in the first place. In order for all men and women to be free government must be limited.

Conservative politics and racist policies clash at the most fundamental of levels. Racist policies grow the power of government and we will not stand for that. Point out this paradox to any leftist that dares to attack the right as racist. I bet it blows their minds.