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This is a letter that I sent to several of the local newspapers, concerning the state of our country, and what we should do to change it.
To the editor
I am a resident in Columbus County, I'm also an immigrant from Holland. I've been here since March of 1989. At first, I went through a little bit of getting used to the idea of capitalism, coming from a country with a strong socialist environment where one is taken care of by the government from the cradle to the grave. But I quickly acclimatized and started to get used to the independence and freedom this country offered me.
I started to like the fact that when I worked hard I got to keep a lot more of my money compared to Holland. This has helped me to carve out a decent living and lifestyle. I am forever grateful for what America has done for me and still is doing. I have and am still living the American dream, I own a decent piece of land with a home , which would have been pretty much impossible in the Netherlands, because of the taxes that come out of ones pay and the outrageous real estate prices and whatever else you need to survive over there. (Case in point, my parents have rented their whole life). For one thing, the last time I went back to visit my parents a gallon of gas was right at $10.
I also started to notice that over the last 10+ years every time I'd fly back, Holland had become more conservative and had made changes toward that, and that the U.S was becoming more and more liberal. I guess the Dutch started to see that the liberal/socialist way is not working. It's about time.
As far as the comment "you're a great American" someone once told me, I am currently in the process of getting all the paper work together, to send those and $700 together with my application for naturalization so I can become an American and can put my vote toward the causes that I believe in.
The reason why I have waited so long to naturalize and receive the American citizenship, is that I will lose my Dutch nationality. And my parents have been kind of opposed to it. That has been one of the obstacles that has held me back for so long.
But I love this country, and have seen it going the wrong way for a while now. It very much upsets me and ticks me off to no end. I have lived the liberal/socialist way for the first 28 years of my life and do NOT want this country to move that way. IT DOES NOT WORK!!
So until I can legally vote, I will fight for what I believe and go to bat for Ilario Pantano and his campaign. We need to get our country back to where it was when I came here and it offered me the opportunity to live the American dream.
Even though I am not an American citizen yet and with the chance of sounding presumptuous, where would General Washington have been without the help from Von Steuben and Lafayette? Not that I will ever be able to hold a candle to what these two unsung heroes have done for our country.
I hope that all Americans realize that they have the power to implement change, a lot of people only gripe and complain about what is wrong with the world today, but do not want to expend the effort it takes to get the change they want. Our founding fathers who wrote the declaration of Independence knew this:
And if they do what it takes to implement change, they take the easy way out and vote for what they want to hear and do not do their homework before they vote for it. We saw that in the last presidential elections.
I do believe that the "silent" majority has wken up and are ready to take back the America that I came to twenty years ago. Let's hope I'm right.
To the editor
I am a resident in Columbus County, I'm also an immigrant from Holland. I've been here since March of 1989. At first, I went through a little bit of getting used to the idea of capitalism, coming from a country with a strong socialist environment where one is taken care of by the government from the cradle to the grave. But I quickly acclimatized and started to get used to the independence and freedom this country offered me.
I started to like the fact that when I worked hard I got to keep a lot more of my money compared to Holland. This has helped me to carve out a decent living and lifestyle. I am forever grateful for what America has done for me and still is doing. I have and am still living the American dream, I own a decent piece of land with a home , which would have been pretty much impossible in the Netherlands, because of the taxes that come out of ones pay and the outrageous real estate prices and whatever else you need to survive over there. (Case in point, my parents have rented their whole life). For one thing, the last time I went back to visit my parents a gallon of gas was right at $10.
I also started to notice that over the last 10+ years every time I'd fly back, Holland had become more conservative and had made changes toward that, and that the U.S was becoming more and more liberal. I guess the Dutch started to see that the liberal/socialist way is not working. It's about time.
As far as the comment "you're a great American" someone once told me, I am currently in the process of getting all the paper work together, to send those and $700 together with my application for naturalization so I can become an American and can put my vote toward the causes that I believe in.
The reason why I have waited so long to naturalize and receive the American citizenship, is that I will lose my Dutch nationality. And my parents have been kind of opposed to it. That has been one of the obstacles that has held me back for so long.
But I love this country, and have seen it going the wrong way for a while now. It very much upsets me and ticks me off to no end. I have lived the liberal/socialist way for the first 28 years of my life and do NOT want this country to move that way. IT DOES NOT WORK!!
So until I can legally vote, I will fight for what I believe and go to bat for Ilario Pantano and his campaign. We need to get our country back to where it was when I came here and it offered me the opportunity to live the American dream.
Even though I am not an American citizen yet and with the chance of sounding presumptuous, where would General Washington have been without the help from Von Steuben and Lafayette? Not that I will ever be able to hold a candle to what these two unsung heroes have done for our country.
I hope that all Americans realize that they have the power to implement change, a lot of people only gripe and complain about what is wrong with the world today, but do not want to expend the effort it takes to get the change they want. Our founding fathers who wrote the declaration of Independence knew this:
That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed
And if they do what it takes to implement change, they take the easy way out and vote for what they want to hear and do not do their homework before they vote for it. We saw that in the last presidential elections.
I do believe that the "silent" majority has wken up and are ready to take back the America that I came to twenty years ago. Let's hope I'm right.
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