The America we live in today isn’t the America I grew up in.
In just the last few years. We’ve been dealt a steady dose of liberal progressivism: president Obama famously uttered, “if you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that, someone else made it happen.”
With all due respect to the community organizers, this is coming from a president who never held a real job prior to getting into elected office.
And Hillary Clinton let this one slip out: “it’s our job to rein in the excesses of capitalism so that it doesn’t run amok.” Unless of course you’re the Clintons, then it’s pay to play time. Just donate to the Clinton foundation and all sorts of doors will open up!
Or take Elizabeth Warren, who wants to break up the big banks, or Occupy protestors chanting, “hey hey, ho ho, corporate greed has got to go.”
And finally, the socialist running for president, Bernie Sanders: “what democratic socialism means to me… we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.”
I was born and raised on the northwest side of Chicago, the son of poor, working-class parents who did everything they could to make a better life for my sister and I. I dreamed I’d be rich one day. I was taught hard work would put me on the path to prosperity. It did. And yet every day liberals are happily flaunting the redistribution of wealth while flying in their private jets from one conference to the next.
Hard work got me drafted by the pirates, and then – when an injury put an end to my baseball ambitions, I entered the big leagues of capitalism, trading oil and gas on wall street. That led eventually to my rewarding TV career.
The radical left wants to punish those like me whose hard work pays off.
Capitalism’s out — socialism’s in.
Who can forget that millennial socialist Darletta Scruggs on Fox Business Network who was unashamed when she delivered this doozie:
“…this system of capitalism has proven itself illegitimate and it cannot provide basic things like education, shelter, health care!”
America’s Millennials think everything should be provided for them. By the government. For free. Why? Because they’re told it should.
I wrote Wake Up America to help us all fight back against today’s big government zealots who want a socialist utopia.
How do we do it? By remembering the “virtues” that make us the greatest nation on earth. I believe there are nine — all essential to my own personal success.
Grit – when Americans get knocked down, we get back up.
Profit – it’s a dirty word for the left — but the motive for profit makes people work harder, innovate, take risks.
Manliness – the rugged spirit that enabled our pioneers to carve America out of the wilderness.
Thrift: living within your means and staying out of debt. The left’s answer to every problem is to spend more money. That’s why the country’s almost 20 trillion dollars in the hole.
Individuality –think, speak and believe freely. It’s your inherent right as an American.
Dominion –the left places more importance on the rights of trees today than people. Nature is under the control of humanity, not the other way around.
Merit — succeed on your own skills and talents – not entitlements from a nanny state.
Pride – have love of country. We are the greatest nation on earth with the greatest military in the world.
And finally, Providence — belief in something bigger than self, faith in God — in the power of prayer.
I truly believe these nine values are our best hope. The alternative to not following these virtues is an America ruled by liberal hypocrites who will forever change the makeup of our nation.
I came from nothing, took some risks, and made a life for myself and my family in a way that could only happen in America.
Please don’t let the radical left destroy the American dream.
Now is the time to wake up America.
Eric Bolling has rapidly become a national success as a Fox News Channel personality and co-host of the highly rated show The Five, as well as his own show, Cashin’ In. He frequently appears on other Fox News Channel programs including as substitute host for Bill O’Reilly on The O’Reilly Factor. Prior to his meteoric rise as a television news host he worked for years on the floor of the New York Stock Market. Married with one son, he lives in Demarest, New Jersey.