We need to fight for the
values that made America great
Washington Examiner,
by
Sen. Rick Scott
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
10/28/2019 6:56:06 AM
My Mom had a very difficult life, due in part to choices she made and in part to factors outside of her control. She grew up with a verbally abusive, alcoholic father. She married a physically abusive, alcoholic husband who she divorced when I was born. My birth father never gave my Mom, my older brother, or me a dime. I never met him.
My Mom eventually remarried the man who became my adopted father: a bus driver who did all four combat jumps with the 82nd Airborne in World War II. He adopted my older brother and me but, with only a sixth-grade education
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Rinktum 10/28/2019 7:43:52 AM (No. 219729)
This is an absolute soul stirring testimony by Sen. Scott because many Americans will relate to all or many parts of it. It will do your heart good to hear how your childhood values are shared by so many Americans and why. This shared history is what unites us regardless of ethnicity, race, religion or any other differences Americans may have. It is the sameness of a shared upbringing that has made us what we are today. We know each other because we are Americans. However, progressives are trying to tear this shared experience down. They do not want us united in a common history. They know that is a bond that is hard to break. It is quite familial. Thank you, Sen. Scott for sharing your story which is so like many other American stories. This shared experience, love for God, and country is the very thing that unites us. God bless you, your family, and your lovely mother and father. Yours is the story of us.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Clinger 10/28/2019 8:19:05 AM (No. 219747)
When we welcomed the worlds tired and poor it wasn’t to a welfare state. They were welcomed to come and fight our wars, toil in our factories, carve a hardscrabble life out of our forests. On the surface the struggles they faced here seem similar to the struggles from which they fled. Nothing better describes the difference, why fighting for an adopted country was worth it when fighting for one’s native land was not, than Sen Scott’s classic American story. Here each of us can make a difference in our own lives based on our own decisions and actions. We don’t like our station in life we can do something about it.
I doubt that there is a single one of us here who can't relate a similar boot strap story in our own families.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 10/28/2019 8:37:46 AM (No. 219761)
Keep fighting Senator Scott.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
drive 10/28/2019 8:39:53 AM (No. 219765)
What? White people were poor? Who knew?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
MDConservative 10/28/2019 9:24:31 AM (No. 219806)
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Nice story. Others can tell the same uplifting tale. What it does is speak volumes about Sen. Scott's mother, not necessarily the nation. This is still the fabled Land of Opportunity. For every J.P Morgan and Cornelius Vanderbilt is a Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos. We are wallowing, as a nation, in prosperity. We are lacking in happiness.
We fear failure and eschewing risk as a society. Everyone gets a trophy. It's easier to blame "circumstances" for misfortune than one's own lack of ambition and failure to even honestly try. Now that's termed "unfortunate" or "underprivledged", and we have government and private programs to salve the hurt. Most of all, we fear the truth and allow "political correctness" backed by its bullies to prevent its speaking or discussion. Let's call it "hate speech."
Those are now also American values.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 10/28/2019 9:42:32 AM (No. 219827)
There's nothing lower than a person who refuses work and grabs more free government cheese. Unfortunately for the country, that class forms the Democrat "base." It's time for a reawakening in America. I though 9-11 was that moment, but it didn't last. Next time will be stronger, last longer, and affect more people than 9-11 or any previous Hurricane. Sadly, a stiff-necked people must be returned to their senses for their own good.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 10/28/2019 9:54:18 AM (No. 219844)
A great message, Senator. Very down to earth and very much from the heart. Let's share this same message with Pelousi, Shoomer, the Schifter, and their thugs. Hard to believe that Elijah is already out of the news cycle.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
HotRod 10/28/2019 10:01:28 AM (No. 219852)
''We'' are fighting! Voting for and financially supporting conservative candidates. I guess the next step will have to be violence? How far will ''we'' go to protect and defend America? We do it in other countries, against people who would do America harm.
When politicians fail, it is up to the people. What are (supposedly) conservative politicians doing to ''fight'' for our values? I don't see many of those politicians sticking their necks out yet. Of course, they have ''got theirs'' and will live comfortably until they die, before seeing America destroyed!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 10/28/2019 10:01:30 AM (No. 219853)
Senator Scott has put a face and a name to something called the Cycle of Nations. First came Abundance. Then Liberty. Then Courage, Then spiritual faith. Then complacency. Then Apathy. Then Bondage. And a desire to hold others in bondage. Discovering faith could possibly lead us out of this current Bondage.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Foghorn 10/28/2019 10:23:00 AM (No. 219876)
I am a former military brat. My dad drove a taxi every other night to make ends meet. Mom worked every night dispatching taxis. They worked hard to provide for me, my sister, and my brother. We went to Japan and things got easier as the cost of living was lower living on base. I worked in the Youth Center until I joined the Navy. I made the rank of CWO4 before I retired with 30 years service. My brother retired from the Army and my sister married a Sailor (CB). We found our way to make things work for us and America. My Dad didn't have money to help us through college as he went blind. He retired with 26 years in the Air Force and would have stayed if not being discharged due to glaucoma. We worked to keep America a great nation.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Trapper 10/28/2019 10:26:05 AM (No. 219883)
Well said! A copy of this article should be attached to every visa to visit America, every American birth certificate, every American high school diploma. The American founders hammered out the most advanced system of representative self government ever seen, and it remains so. The American Dream has never been about getting rich. It has always been about freedom, ensuring that neither you nor your descendants will ever have to bend a knee to el Patron, or address anyone as "my lord," or ever again be reduced to eating the Laird's garbage (go choke on your haggis). "Take this job and shove it" was an American anthem not because you would ever actually say it, but because you could. Well done, Senator.
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LadyHen 10/28/2019 10:34:16 AM (No. 219894)
What a stirring message! There is nothing like overcoming poverty to instill a love of the freedom to succeed this nation grants us all. Most of us in the South at least are 2 or 3 generations removed from what wojkd today be classified as povertt, though my grandfather would never have called it such.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MattMusson 10/28/2019 10:38:50 AM (No. 219901)
Up until 1880 - the Average Western Family lived on about $1 a day.
Not in adjust dollars. In CURRENT DOLLARS!
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This so-called White Privilege BS realllllllly pizzzes me off....if they only knew....instead of looking thru their racist eyes
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At some point in life, everyone needs to be a little hungry, a little broke, and a lot humble. Hard times will make you strong.When Scott was running as governor, a nurse friend shared how much disdain she had for him as a hospital administrator. He was a good governor and I expect the same as a Senator. Far better than the House Rep I have and Little Marco still wets his finger to see which way the wind is blowing.
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