Received an e-mail today from former Congressman and decorated Admiral Joe Sestak (D. PA) who compares a remark made by Senator Pat Toomey (R. PA) that is very similar to Mitt Romney's 47% remark:
The Philadelphia Inquirer recently reported that Senator Toomey said, “…some Americans find they benefit from government aid ‘as long as you don’t work very much.’” The newspaper noted that his words, “…there are people who discover that the government will provide food, shelter, health care, education, transportation, cash, a very long list of all the things you need,” were similar to Governor Romney’s “47 percent” of Americans that “believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it.”
I disagree with our incumbent Senator Toomey: the less fortunate should not be portrayed as individuals who do not strive for a better life. For example, families with children stay in subsidized housing an average of only three years as their own efforts to reach out for a better life succeed.
Real leaders do not characterize any subset of Americans as anything but “Americans” who strive for their American Dream to work and excel, including not demonizing the top 1% of Americans, who do more volunteer work and give more to charity than the remaining 99 percent.
I know it is not in fashion, but we can no longer ignore that we must approach our common challenges in a unified, not a divisive, way. Churchill said it well: “If we are together, nothing is impossible.”
It shouldn’t take a Brit to tell us what we already know...we just need leaders who lead, and not divide.
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Warmly,
Joe Sestak
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