Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America 's true living legends –
He is a former P & G executive, an acclaimed
author, a dynamic teacher, and one of the world's most highly rated
speakers.
You may remember a previous letter he wrote
in 2009 to President Obama and the New York Times which went viral.
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From a speech given by Lou Pritchett April 15, 2012:
"I was born in year two of the Great
Depression (1931) and spent the first 10 years of my life influenced
by the extreme hardships of the depression. By today's standards my
family was about a mile below today's so called 'poverty level'; but
if you never 'had'---doing without was not so 'bad'. Borrowing shoes
to graduate from the 8th grade didn't seem at all demeaning because
most of the 8th graders did the same thing.
In June 1944, my only brother, Joe, was
killed in action on Utah Beach in Normandy , France during the D-Day
landings. Exactly one year later, my father died and left me, my
mother and my sister to go it alone. and alone we went. My mother went
to work at a department store, my sister dropped out of school and
joined her and I went to work shining shoes on the streets of Memphis
for a dime a shine.
Government assistance was not available and if
it were I am confident my mother would have refused it because she
never wanted the government involved in our lives.
I mention this bit of personal history to
help you understand that millions of Americans, including your parents
and grandparents, grew up like me during the Great Depression and
never expected nor wanted the government to offer them anything other
than an Opportunity, and now to see what Obama is trying to do to our
country tends to make you crazy. As some of you know, my "Scare Me"
letter went viral with millions of hits on the internet during the
past 3 years. I have now written a follow-up letter which I will now
share with you. It will be released to the press.
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To the editors:
"In April 2009, I sent President Obama and
the New York Times a letter titled "You Scare Me" because, as a
candidate, he promised to "fundamentally transform America." Now,
after observing his performance for over three years, he no longer
scares me--- he terrifies me for the following reasons:
FIRST He has done more to damage America's
standing in the world, to lower the standard of living in America, to
impoverish future generations and to shake our faith in the country's
future than any other American president in history.
SECOND-- With a compliant Democrat congress,
a lapdog media and a weak, almost nonexistent Republican opposition,
he has shattered the American dream of job security, home ownership
and rugged individualism for millions of Americans and has poisoned
and divided our civil society with his politics of envy, class
warfare, race warfare, and religious warfare which he is using as
fundamental building blocks for his 'socialist' agenda.
THIRD culturally, he remains totally out of
touch traditional American values. This has absolutely nothing to do
with race or where he was born, rather it has everything to do with
where, how and with whom he was raised, schooled, educated, trained
and associates with still today.
FOURTH-- he has surrounded himself with naive
academicians, lawyers, politicians, bureaucrats and socialist leaning
czars who arrogantly think and behave exactly as he does. People who
offer no balanced suggestions or devil’s advocate positions and think
in lock step with him that big government is the answer to all our
problems.
FIFTH-- he not only encourages but aids and
abets the unionization of all American industry, the albatross around
the neck of the free market. In turn, they provide the money and
muscle to intimidate his opponents.
SIXTH-- he has increased the national debt by
over 30% in just three years. If re-elected and this rate of increase
continues, America will be burdened with an unsustainable 20 trillion
dollar debt which will result in the Country's financial death.
Recovery will be impossible--------- America will be the Greece of
2016.
SEVENTH-- given his fanatical beholding to
the 'environmental' and 'man-caused global warming' fringe, he has
deliberately discouraged U.S. fossil fuel exploration and production
while wasting millions of tax payer dollars on solar, wind and algae
experiments. He refuses to accept that oil, gas and coal are not
America 's enemies, they are America 's assets, which, properly
managed, could make us energy independent within a generation.
EIGHTH-- He views the U.S. as a power in
retreat which abused its World dominance. Therefore he systematically
apologizes round the world. Last March he whispered to Russian
President Medvedev "--this is my last election. After my election, I
have more flexibility". Just what is the secret that Obama and Putin
are concealing from the American people until after the election? With
what other leaders has he made similar secret agreements?
NINTH---and finally, after all his missteps,
bad decision making, poor management, and zero leadership, the fact
that he has the audacity to seek re-election should terrify every
American.
I predict that if re-elected, future
historians and political interpreters will look back at the eight year
period 2008-2016, and conclude "the 44th President of the U.S. allowed
the takers to overpower the payers which resulted in the greatest
economy in history vanishing from the face of the Earth".
Farewell America , the World will really miss you!"
Lou Pritchett April 15, 2012
It is my hope and prayer that this letter
will also go viral and serve as a 'wake up' call to Americans of all
political leaning, convincing them that never before in U.S. history
has so much depended on Americans understanding that we are facing one
of the greatest crises in U.S. history. Convincing them that this
election will be won not by letters to the editor, political speeches
or radio and TV sound bites.
No! It will be won by those with a
conviction, with a belief and with a willingness to pay the price in
helping put the most enlightened voters in the polling booth on
November 6.
Let me end on my favorite quote which I think
is very appropriate for each of us today---
"TO EVERY MAN
There comes in his lifetime that special
moment when he is physically tapped on the shoulder and offered the
chance to do a very special thing, unique to him and fitted to his
talent; what a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared or
unqualified for the work which would be his finest hour.”
Those words spoken by Winston Churchill over
70 years ago are very appropriate today.
For if each of us is prepared and is
qualified then November 6, 2012, just might be our and our Country's
finest hour as we reclaim this "shining city on the hill" from the
ravages of Obama Socialism.
IT IS NOW OR NEVER FELLOW PATRIOTS-- I would
add "God help us not to Fail" !
Lou Pritchett
Posted by Michael T. Wayne- A Little Crazy
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