The American Dream is under attack. President
Obama and his allies on Capitol Hill have launched an all-out assault
on success. By saddling small-business owners and entrepreneurs with higher
taxes and suffocating regulations, and by denigrating the qualities of
self-reliance, hard work, and ambition, the Obama administration has declared
war on the American spirit.
New York Times bestselling author Tommy Newberry asks: Will you sit back
while Team Obama shatters the American Dream? Or will you join Tommy in
the fight to save our great nation from mediocrity?
On February 1st, Tommy will deliver an open letter to President Obama,
urging him to save the American Dream. You can join Tommy in the fight
by signing the letter below. It only takes a minute, and by adding your
voice, you'll help us return our country to the principles our Founders
intended.
AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA
Current Petition Signature Count: 3,396
Dear Mr. President:
I have the high honor and distinct privilege of writing to you on behalf
of millions of leading entrepreneurs, small business owners, salespeople,
and executives whose creativity, work ethic, and personal responsibility
make up the backbone of the American economic engine and keep the American
Dream alive.
These individuals have become highly paid because they are highly productive.
For some reason, however, you do not refer to these Americans as “working
people”—you typically call them “the rich.” But
with all due respect Mr. President, they work indeed, often putting in
sixty, seventy, and even eighty hour weeks. These are the most successful
Americans who create vast numbers of jobs. And yet, you have singled them
out for condemnation and expropriation. You say we need to spread their
wealth around in the interests of fairness. You vow to make them pay higher
taxes, even though they already pay far more than anyone else. You bury
their businesses in a morass of red-tape and useless regulation. You attempt
to make the government—instead of their customers—the arbiter
of their success.
Mr. President, I am writing to ask that you STOP THE WAR ON SUCCESS!
I have been working with entrepreneurs and small business owners and their
families for nearly twenty years. The picture you paint of the free market,
the business world, and successful business owners is totally foreign
to me.
You speak of a rich man as selfish, but do you see the jobs he has created?
You speak of him as having more than he needs, but did you see how little
he had when he accepted the risk of starting his own business? You speak
of luck, but did you see the years of misfortune that preceded his success?
You speak of him as “privileged,” but have you heard that
fewer than 20 percent of rich Americans inherited their wealth?
Finally Mr. President, consider the message you are sending to America’s
young people. I truly believe our greatest generations are still to come,
but it will never happen if our children believe that no one can succeed
on their own, that business is fundamentally dishonorable and dishonest,
that only the government can save us from the depredations of businessmen
and businesswomen, and that anyone who is financially successful is a
societal parasite.
The entrepreneurial class you demonize is largely responsible for America’s
high standard of living and its unprecedented pace of technological innovation.
Think about the consequences of your relentless attack on these people
and everything they represent—success, prosperity, upward mobility,
and self-sufficiency. America may indeed become more equal without these
entrepreneurs, but it will be the equality of poverty and mediocrity,
of underachievement and apathy. And now I ask you, Mr. President: where’s
the hope in that?
Sincerely,
Tommy Newberrry
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Current Petition Signature Count: 3,396
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