The Obama administration birth control mandate has truly struck a nerve, and rightly so. Many people are erroneously referring to this issue as a Catholic one. True, Catholics are staunchly pro-life, but so are many other faiths.
- Islam teaches that life begins at conception and is created by God. The unborn child has certain rights such as the right to care, protection and life. Abortion on any grounds is forbidden in the Islamic holy book Al’Quran
- Orthodox Churches forbid abortion as going against the commandment ‘Thou shalt not kill’.
- The Torah or Jewish law forbids the taking of innocent life and stresses that human beings are made in the image of God.
- Hindu scriptures refer to abortion as garha-batta (womb killing) and the Atharva Veda describes abortionists as the greatest of sinners.
If I had more time I could create a comprehensive list. However, we need to think bigger picture. In fact, whether or not you are pro-life or pro-choice is not the issue here. The problem we face here is blatant government overreach and direct defiance of the first amendment. If this administration so brazenly shreds the first amendment, should we sit back and believe that the other amendments are safe?
To put this into terms most people can understand, consider the following analogy. Who loves bacon? Imagine if the government issued a child-focused mandate requiring bacon to be added all school menus. Sounds great, right? We all love bacon. (I really do. In fact I recently won a cooking contest with my bacon toffee recipe). But wait a minute… Muslims don’t eat pork. Can you imagine the uproar from Muslims and the left if such a mandate were issued? I rest my case.
This administration is willingly attacking our religious freedoms. Can you imagine what other targets are on the agenda if Team Obama wins in November? Spread the word.
Remember all of the talk about Barack Obama becoming the first African-American president? The race wasn’t about race, it was about hope and change, and the fact that America elected its first black president was a wonderful achievement for our country. Remember the hype? Remember the tingle in the leg?
While not politically correct to say, the truth of the matter is that Barack Obama is half-black. His father was black and his mother was white. In 2008 Obama’s racial makeup was enough to energize millions of black voters into the voting booth, increasing the historical black Democratic vote from the mid 80% range to well over 90%. His race also served as a motivating factor for other Americans to help write a new historic chapter to the legacy of the American presidency.
Mitt Romney is currently leading the race to be the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, yet there has been very little discussion about the fact that he is part Mexican. Yes, for those new to this idea, Mitt Romney’s father was born in Mexico. His great-grandfather moved his family to Mexico to avoid religious persecution, and he helped start a Mormon colony that still exists today. (note: Mormons outlawed polygamy in 1890. It was/is still practiced by the occasional religious rebel, but the practice is not official Mormon church doctrine.)
Mitt’s grandfather Gaskell had one wife. Together they had seven children, George was the middle child. When George was five years old his family fled the violence of the Mexican Revolution, leaving their home and virtually all of their possessions behind.
George Romney grew up in America, here are a few facts about his upbringing:
- After living on government relief in El Paso, TX the family moved to Los Angeles.
- George’s father Gaskill worked as a carpenter for a year, then moved the family to Idaho to try potato farming.
- He failed at farming and moved to Salt Lake City, UT to work construction again. He eventually became a successful home builder.
Mitt’s father George Romney also started out with modest beginnings:
- George started working in the wheat and sugar beet fields at age 11.
- At age 14 he became skilled in lath and plaster work in the 1920s. The Great Depression eventually ruined them in 1929.
- After a year of junior college he began missionary work in the UK in 1926.
- He followed his girlfriend to Washington DC and found work in politics and the private sector.
- He eventually found steady work at Alcoa and his rise in corporate America began, eventually resulting in becoming CEO of AMC (a car company, you young folks) in 1954.
- While running on a platform that included decrying both the large influence of labor unions within the Democratic Party and the similarly large influence of big business within the Republican Party, he was elected governor of Michigan in 1962, a job he held until 1969.
So, back to Mitt. He learned about hard work through the example set by his father. By the time Mitt was a teenager his father ran for governor and Mitt worked on the campaign. Mitt also worked summer jobs as was once a security guard at Chrysler. While at Stanford he worked nights. He left college after a year to serve 30 months as a missionary. He came back to the states, completed college, then instead of starting a business he entered law school at the suggestion of his father. He excelled at law school and was heavily recruited. The rest of his story is a textbook example of an educated man working his way up the corporate ladder. To sum it up, he earned his way to the top, it was not handed to him on a silver platter.
Given his family history and his own personal successes you would think that Latinos would be rallying behind Romney in a wave of support for another historic moment in American political and racial history. You would think that Romney’s potential candidacy would serve as rallying point for the fastest growing segment of our population. Sadly, this is not the case. Apparently being born in Mexico doesn’t make you Mexican, or at least Mexican enough.
If you listen to many Latinos today they dismiss Romney as a rich, white, anti-immigration elitist who was given everything. This could not be further from the truth, but today it seems to me that too many voters in America care less about the truth and more about American Idol.
What is the crux of their discontent? Part of it is class envy. Romney is a self-made billionaire. More significantly, Romney is for the increased securing of our southern border and is against amnesty or other benefits for illegal immigrants.
At the end of the day, a problem we will not overcome is that too many Latinos support, encourage and want lax border enforcement. Every Latino I know is related to or knows of people living in America illegally. The left will continue to propagate the lie that conservatives and Republicans are anti-immigration. Conservatives welcome legal immigration, we recognize that it was a major factor in America’s rise to global superiority. But try explaining that to a liberal and you will probably end up being called a racist.
So, while Mitt Romney has changed his stances at times, and he has said stupid things, I still think he is better for America than President Obama. I’m hoping that at least a few Latinos jump on the Romney bandwagon to support someone that has at least a piece of Mexico in his blood. After all, we’ve been told that if you are 1% black you are 100% black, so why not extend that concept to other demographics? Come on Latinos! Get with Mitt!
Over at PJ Media, David Goldman wrote a wonderful analysis of the so-called economic recovery. President Obama talks about how things are getting better, but that only makes sense if you ignore reality and create your own metrics. The following graph is included in Mr. Goldman’s article.
The gray bars indicate recessions. The blue line is the percentage of people working. After almost every recession you can easily see a sharp increase in the employment rate. The only two exceptions are the early 1960s and the current administration. My version of the graph highlights the trends.
What caused the spike in the 1980s? I think it was those evil Wall Street investors and that evil Trickle Down Economics that the left claims didn’t work. What caused the rise in the 1990s? The dot-com boom, you know, all of those evil rich kids creating companies with daddy’s trust fund money.
I would also like to point out that despite the recession after the dot-com bust AND the attacks on 9/11 Under Bush and a Republican controlled congress, America was rising economically. Unemployment was around 4%. But what happened? Democrats took control of Congress and the spending spree began. Sadly, President Bush went along with it, which was one of the vital seeds that led to the rise of the Tea Party.
If you listen to the left, America is not a place where people can start a company in a garage, or drop out of college to become 1%-ers. Nobody earns that success, therefore it needs to be stolen and given to the “less fortunate.”
I would like to point out that the largest drop in the employment numbers followed the housing bubble burst while Congress was under Democratic control. I’ve written about how Democrats enabled the disaster we are still recovering from, despite Republican attempts to prevent it. These are facts, not opinions. Why isn’t it getting better? Because the current president is doing nothing to give business the confidence to hire or invest. This is a major distinction. Until our government gets reigned in, businesses will have no choice but to keep things very tight financially.
The bottom line: Obama is making things worse. He is extending America’s suffering. No amount of government spending will help. In fact, it will make 0ur future far worse than most average Americans can imagine. Obama is making things worse. Repeat and share.
