By Ed Martin.

Make no mistake about it, there is a civil way underway here in America being fought out without violence but in the hearts and minds of countless Americans who want reform but not the wholesale change promised by the extreme leftists who have spun their way into power.   The upcoming election will be the most important of any of our lives.

The choice is not one between liberals or conservatives or even Democrats or Republicans.  It is a choice between BIG GOVERNMENT and ORDINARY PEOPLE.    It is a choice between those who go-along to get along, regardless of party and those who are willing to stand on principle to combat policies that are destroying individual initiative, strength, and entrepreneurship that have made this country as successful as we have been.

The battle is between government control and individual responsibility.   If those who advocate bigger and stronger government control win, then those of us who have worked hard our entire life so as not to be a burden to anyone else will be tempted to give up and say “why bother?”.  (The Atlas Shrugged syndrome.)

In my humble opinion the strongest candidates for the federal and state legislatures are those who have never run for office before, but are motivated by a true philosophical core that knows that we have been compromised, sold out, and then handed a bill to pay for those who have not been responsible for their own survival in a society that affords us the ability to be all that we can.

We are not victims!   We are Americans.   But the BIG Government types, largely within the Democratic Party (with occasional support from a bunch of lilly livered weaklings in the Republican Party) have convinced literally millions of Americans that they are victims and need to be taken care of.   They promise money they and we don’t have, sinking us into deeper and deeper collective debt.

The Washington based news media has no idea what is going on beyond the Beltway.  They sit around and dismiss the Tea Party movement, buy into the Obama talking points, and discount any real alternative proposal to big government solutions as not serious.   EXCUSE ME!!!!      Have they bothered to take a look at how those big government solutions have utterly failed wherever they have been tried?   Just look at the inner cities where the Democrats have stifled real development, initiative, and private sector job creation.    Why is it that Obama never used the term “Yes We Can” to mobilze people on the Southside of Chicago to create their own jobs, work hard, and read to educate themselves.   Why it is that this slogan was only used when he and his radical cronies sought the ultimate power of the Presidency?

People in America are strong, but too many stopped thinking that way.   Reliance on government solutions will weaken us, entrap us, and ultimately enslave us.   That is the history of BIG GOVERNMENT wherever it has been tried.    I’m voting for the people because I know that if you teach someone a trade they will find work.   I’m voting for the people because I know that if you teach a child to read and to want to read the boundaries of education are endless.   Schools give us a start but the responsibility to become educated rests with us, no one else.   

Bureaucracies need your money to keep going.   Obama has given us no change, only a continuation of the bigger and bigger bureacracies that have been strangling our free enterprise opportunity.

The next election is coming.  Talk to everyone you know and get them engaged.

If the people continue to lose, we will be overrun and then God help us all.