I Want Your Vote November 2nd

This election is about Big Things.

For the last 14 months I have been campaigning and detailing my perspective on campaign issues.  Debt, spending, war, new taxes, power grabs, new regulation, neglected borders – all these have resulted in a moribund economy and men and women who are questioning the future.

Yet these things are not the Big Things.  These are Big Symptoms of a central, generations-long conflict of visions between big government of the progressive era, and limited government of the founding fathers.

The original vision of America is that prosperity and great social good would spring forth as free people pursued their desires and interests and those of their communities.  How great was the success of that vision!  Has there ever been a nation as prosperous as America? Has there ever been a nation as generous as America?  Has there ever been a nation that has offered so much treasure and so much blood for the good of mankind in modern history?

America is not the problem.  Americans are not the problem.  It is the vision of an America monitored and directed by a nest of experts in Washington DC that has brought us to this great debt and turmoil, pitting neighbor against neighbor.

We have now come to a crossroads. Here is where we look into our future and determine if we abandon our two centuries old experiment in self-government, or reclaim the original ideal of America.

These are the Big Things.  In Missouri, beginning at 6:00 AM on November 2nd, the battle begins.

I am running for office because the vision of America Washington DC offers is not the real America.  It is not the America I was raised in, and it is not the America I want to hand off to my children.

I am not in need of beneficent elites, and neither are my neighbors. We do not believe that prosperity will follow if only we give bureaucrats an ever-increasing share of our time, labor, treasure and loyalty.  Americans do not sit and hope someone will help their neighbor.  We help them.  We do not sit and hope someone will do for us that which we ought do for ourselves. Given the freedom, we just do it.

I believe the hardy, self-reliant America is awake and aware, ready to reject the false promise of prosperity through regulation.  I believe the generous America is weary of watching their neighbors entrapped in endless, generational entitlement, nor do we want to be coerced into that same trap.  I believe the strong, confident America is infuriated by the abasement heaped upon her by her own government.

I want to end the havoc an overweening Federal government is foisting upon us.  I want to restore commonsense values to America’s leadership.  I want to help restore more than our economy, I want to work to restore our self-confidence and spirit. I want to look back in a few years and know with profound satisfaction that I have joined with my community to chip away the thick slag that encrusts the Liberty Bell.

Then I want to come home.

My name is Ed Martin.  I am running for congress for Missouri’s 3rd Congressional District, and I would like your vote on Election Day, November 2nd, 2010.

Thank you,
Ed Martin

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