Letter as submitted by Candidate for U.S. Senate, State Senator Joe Kyrillos (R-Monmouth):
Today, we remember and honor the sacrifices made by hardworking Americans to achieve social, political and economic progress. Through their efforts they forged a movement that made possible the American Dream and opportunity through hard work. Sadly, the American Dream for many is becoming unattainable and the idea that through hard work one can build their own future is quickly becoming uncertain.
Americans are suffering through the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression. Today, unemployment continues to be above 8%, 23 million Americans are unemployed, underemployed or not looking for work and more Americans are living in poverty. Thanks to Washington’s failed policies and programs the American middle class is smaller, poorer and pessimistic about the future.
Honoring hardworking Americans and their sacrifice means creating jobs and restoring opportunity. We must change course and replace the idea that we work for the government with the reality that the government works for us. Government must provide a climate for economic growth and job creation. I believe in the future of America and in the strength of the American worker. In Washington I will continue the fight I started in Trenton, so that together we can make the American Dream a reality for all New Jerseyans.
Senator Joe Kyrillos (R-Monmouth)
Candidate for U.S. Senate
Sean Conneamhe
6:10 am on Tuesday, September 4, 2012
"Dreams are successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur in the mind during certain stages of sleep."
"So what is exactly 'The American Dream'?"
"Wake up, Joe, and explain your dream to the New Jersey-Americans suffering under neo-colonialism and U.S. exceptionalism."
Bill Heller
11:07 am on Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Kyrillos is full of hot air. He abandoned his District 13 constituents by not even making a comment to support Union Beach in its fight to prevent a 38-story noisy industrial wind turbine with blades each the size of a cell tower from being erected way too close to a lot of homes. Hazlet, Matawan, Holmdel, Keyport, Union Beach and Monmouth County (all within his district) also passed resolutions opposing the turbine. But still Kyrillos refused to weigh in, even after he granted a meeting to a few locals looking for his help. Recently, he was the only Republican sponsor on a bill that would have allowed wind turbines up to 500' tall on preserved farm land in two southern NJ counties. Kyrillos is not what he claims. He's a wheeling-and-dealing back door politician with no loyalty to the people he's supposed to represent. I'm a Republican, and will gladly vote for a write-in candidate as Kyrillos is deliberately throwing his Union Beach area constituents under the bus.
Frederick John LaVergne for Congress
9:27 am on Sunday, September 16, 2012
Bill - Look over the platform of Eugene LaVergne and the Democratic Republican Party. No obfuscation there. Message me for details. Hope this finds you well. (I believe you were a classmate of my father's).
Blane Jackson
1:32 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012
The laboring class which includes everyone that doesn't risk capital to earn a living (teachers, office workers, factory workers, service industry workers, government employees, etc.), is so comfortable, it has no incentive to become "self employed" - the original "American Dream."
Unfortunately, the self employed are the creators of the jobs and with very few laborers entering the ranks of the self employed, very few jobs are being created. As government continues to "tax the rich" (who also happen to be the self employed), the incentives for self employment wane even further.
Americans say the love freedom, but the reality is most of us are indentured to our employers. Until we realize and celebrate the "American Dream" as business ownership, instead of a good "laboring" job, we're doomed.
See the entire article at:
blanejackson.com
Sean Conneamhe
5:55 pm on Tuesday, September 4, 2012
"Labor creates value and accumulation of value creates wealth.
"Without laboring people there would be no wealthy people.
"In a free and balanced system, both labor and capital are rewarded for their efforts and the whole society prospers.
"Liberty and prosperity go hand-in-hand."
Blane Jackson
10:19 am on Wednesday, September 5, 2012
No one is saying the laboring class isn't necessary or valuable. The question at hand is achieving the "American Dream." Unless you are a very skilled laborer, such as a brain surgeon or a lawyer, you can't expect to achieve great wealth. When all you have to offer are your two hands and your time, you compete with everyone in the world on an equal basis for wages.
Risking capital is the path to the "American Dream." When a laborer saves his money, then buys a shovel and truck to start his own landscape business, with a little luck, he is on the way to prosperity and the "American Dream." The government needs to make it easy for him to make this transition by removing barriers to entry (licenses, fees, etc.), making it easy to do business (removing taxes and regulation) and safeguarding his savings (hardening the currency via a gold standard).
Before you know it, our new entrepreneur will be hiring two more laborers to expand his business and the cycle repeats.
B.J.
blanejackson.com
Frederick John LaVergne for Congress
9:30 am on Sunday, September 16, 2012
Barriers to changing the status quo begin and end with the self-perpetuating two-party system. It is broken beyond repair, but our Constitution is not. Deny the myth, and vote for the best choice offered. If you don't see a better choice, step up yourself. I did.