RECLAIMING THE AMERICAN DREAM

By Attorney Jonathan Emord
Author of "The Rise of Tyranny" and, "Global Censorship of Health Information"
October 25, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

Election day, November 2, is a critical national referendum on President Obama’s big government agenda. That day across the nation Americans will enter their polling booths and cast ballots that will determine whether the regnant Democratic party retains control of the House and the Senate. America has a chance to translate its discontent over high unemployment, massive federal bailouts and takeovers, and an all-consuming national debt into action that will render President Obama a lame duck for the remaining two years of his presidency. If they pursue that course, they will be laying an essential foundation for reclaiming the American dream.

On November 2 we will either continue traversing the path the President has charted for us where no faith exists for private initiative in a free market and where the private sector is increasingly structured and controlled by a leviathan regulatory state, or we will alter that course by placing our faith once again in the private initiative that has made us a great people, move to dismantle the regulatory state, and liberate the private sector to catapult America into a new age of innovation and prosperity.

Every member of Congress is up for re-election. Thirty-seven of the 100 Senate seats are also up for grabs. It is my sincere hope that America removes the party in power in the House and Senate, but if only in the House that will do much to block President Obama’s big government agenda.

At a minimum, if 42 of the House seats and 10 of the 37 of the Senate seats up for re-election fail to go to the Democrats, the public will have rejected the President’s agenda resoundingly and will have put in place a significant barrier to more grandiose government designs from the White House. We can then hold on until 2012 when we may be blessed with a choice to act in favor of liberty again.

In a perfect world, our choices would be far better than they are. With a few notable exceptions, we will be voting against the lesser of two evils, but we will do so knowing that keeping the Democrats in power will keep the President’s big government agenda moving forward. Few people in politics come with the integrity of a Ronald Reagan. Come 2012, we will need someone approaching Reagan’s greatness to run against Obama if we are to not only defeat him but also reclaim the American dream.

Apologists for government are everywhere. We have few people of intellect who can present the many eloquent arguments against federal control and in favor of individual sovereignty. We have two years to find a presidential candidate with intellect and eloquence.

The way back to liberty and prosperity is not a secret formula. We have done it all before. We need to restore faith in freedom of choice as the best means to achieve self-fulfillment and prosperity. We need to restore constitutional limits on government by stripping the regulatory agencies of the power to make law, limiting that to Congress, and by revivifying those age-old doctrines that now form what Judge Ginsburg described many years ago in Cato’s Regulation Magazine as a “Constitution in exile,â€