Col. Allen West explains the importance of the Next Generation project, especially for his own family. Hear why he wants to deliver both fiscal and economic freedom to his daughters and the next generation.
The Next Generation initiatives from PJ Media will be launched in February 2013. Under the brand of NextGeneration.TV, they will focus on the issues of the day through the perspective of the next generation as well as how all Americans can stand up for their nation’s future. Through weekly newsletters and alerts, Internet TV, live events, social media, and outreach programs, the leader of this program, Allen West, and the PJ Media team will help grandparents, parents and youth examine the issues confronting the next generation in the areas of America’s economic future, educational pursuits, employment, safety and security, and basic human freedoms.
Obama’s opponents are just clinging to their old fashion morality and work ethic and outdated independence and outmoded sense of dignity. Don’t worry about that kind of old fashion reactionary stuff anymore. Just make Barack Obama President for Life and you won’t need any of that. Everything will be free! Everything you want, yes everything, he will provide it. And remember, I said free, all free! Thank Obama all mighty, everything free at last! But remember you must submit to Barack Obama or the only thing free will be one of those drones flying over your house.
Sorry, but once someone says that there are 79 to 81 Communists in our Congress they no longer can be taken seriously on anything.
That’s a moronic statement.
Are there Communists in America? If they want to take power, how are they going to run? As Communists? Or Democrats? Of course there are Communists/Statists in Congress. There’s one in the White House too.
There are FAR more oligarchs in Congress than there are communists; real or imagined. It’s an oligarch in the WH too. The Dow was at 7949 when he took office. Now it’s around 14,000. Corporate profits are at an all-time high. If he’s a communist, he REALLY sucks at it.
The price of gold was $870/oz when Obama took office and it is $1,660/oz today. So, relative to the value of gold, the stock market has been flat for four years, and is slightly down. The communist regimes such as the USSR and the PRC are oligarchs. It doesn’t get more oligarchal than Stalin and Mao and the Communist Party.
P.S. The greatest obstacle to a complete Communist takeover is the Constitution, and now, what are the first talking points since Inauguration Day: Ban Guns and dump the Constitution. I met two people today who had not seen Obama with the fly on his forehead. Pictures like that need to get out there more.
I’d say the most important issue is to continue to reiterate the PERSONAL indebtedness that the Federal debt has saddled each and every US citizen with (as LTC West does) and downplay the inconceivable (literally) aggregate number. It would also be illustrative to 1) roll up the number by family (occasionally done, but needs repetition), 2) what these numbers will actually be after the deficit increases as projected, 3) what these numbers will be when interest rates return to something like historical levels, and 4) how these numbers compare with the price of an average home. I think only by framing the numbers in ways that families can compare with their own budgets can the enormity of the problem be comprehended.
The U.S. came out of World War II with a much higher debt burden than now – 127% of GDP. Though worried about the GIs coming home to an economic depression, our leaders focused on fixing the economy.
They passed the GI Bill that educated a generation. They subsidized housing and built the suburbs. They subsidized the conversion of wartime plants to civilian production. They built roads, hospitals, bridges, schools, and a little thing we now call the Interstate: the single largest engineering project in history! They sent billions of dollars to Europe and Asia to create allies and markets. They built the broad middle class that made America the envy of the world.
They generally ran deficits, added to the total national debt, but the economy grew faster, and by 1980, the overall debt was down to less than 40% of gross domestic product and not a problem. WWII’s debt was now paid off. We call them the greatest generation. We would do well to learn from them.
The U.S. isn’t Greece, but it must avoid imitating Europe. The International Monetary Fund’s chief economist recently acknowledged the FAILURE OF AUSTERITY in Europe, noting that spending cuts had a much more DESTRUCTIVE effect on growth – driving the European Union BACK into recession – than the IMF had predicted. Austerity economics cost jobs and torpedoed growth. And it ended up INCREASING THE DEBT burdens of the governments.
We have had Republicons whining that they don’t want a “European-style economy”, yet push European-style austerity on America which can ONLY leas to a European-style recession/depression. This, then, would truly be a European-style economy. Brilliant.
If one is TRULY interested in fixing the budget, fix the economy. It worked quite well last time. The budget CAN’T be “fixed” without fixing the economy.
Some very large canyons in your economic history.
The US dollar is going bust, but that is the intent.
West is a big government fraud. He never voted for freedom, and only for the military industrial complex. Do not take my word, he voted for the NDAA, THE PATRIOT ACT, he never once voted for our freedom! He has NO tea party bone in his body! Look, look, look, and never trust, and look at their actions and stop listening to their words. Words are empty, without actions which will define you, and who you are!
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The obvious retort to your personal attack is just look at the obvious. The saying “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” applies in spades with LtCol West. Can you point to any other freshman politician that was the target of not only his own party (redistricting) but was enemy #1 to the Democrats. The amount of money from Soros’s on down to defeat him says volumes about just how much he was feared by the left. We need many more like him. He deserves our gratitude and respect.
LtCol West is talking about how much every man, woman, and child in America will owe. My question is how many of us are actually paying this debt and how many are just hanging on and mooching from those that are paying? Those that are now paying no taxes are also raising a generation that will follow in their footsteps. Why work when the government will give you more than you could possibly make on your own? With that in mind how much must those that are paying shell out to keep us afloat?