Allen West “Are we going to promote an opportunity society or a dependency society?

by MATTHEW BOYLE 23 Nov 2013, 1:38 PM PDT for Breitbart News

Col. Allen West, former GOP U.S. Congressman from Florida, said at a Thursday morning panel focused on the devastating economic impacts of amnesty that economic policies that displace black youths from jobs—like President Barack Obama’s immigration policies—have led to fads like the “knockout game.”

The panel, hosted by the nonpartisan pro-jobs group  Americans4Work and featuring West and other leaders on immigration policy, focused intensely on how the economy has not gotten better around the country for many groups of Americans, including the black community. They noted how the immigration policies proposed by the president and some in Congress would not help the situation.

West and fellow panelist Professor Jan Ting of Temple University were discussing what they called the “new normal” in America—how Americans are not succeeding independent of the government in record numbers.

“What we don’t want to see happening in the United States of America is this second and third generation of welfare,” West said. ”That becomes the new normal. When you look and see your mother and your father or your grandmother or your aunt or uncle, whoever is raising you, that they were born in Section Eight housing, their kids were in Section Eight housing. And therefore, you think there is no place else for me to go but Section Eight housing.”

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Allen West Guardian PAC Endorsed Candidates Need Your Support @dbongino @miablove @RepTomCotton

Forty years ago, 72% of House lawmakers and 78% of those in the Senate had served in the armed forces. Veteran representation on Capitol Hill has been steadily declining since the early 1970s, largely a result of the World War II generation steadily leaving public office. But those who have served in the military have a better understanding and a deeper comprehension of issues involving national security, armed services and veteran issues –issues no less important now than they were 40 years ago.

Colonel West was one of only four black Republicans to serve in the United States House of Representatives in nearly a century. In the Senate, there have been only two. As the demographics of the U.S. population shift, it becomes ever more critical to increase representation by not only black, but Hispanic and Asian American leaders as well.

The leadership PAC Colonel West established during the 2012 election cycle with the same mission helped 7 military veteran candidates win their seats in the House of Representatives.

We must ensure conservative leaders are elected who will stand as guardians of our constitutional republic, to restore our nation’s fiscal responsibility and strong national defense, limit the growth of government, unleash the free market and preserve the liberty and sovereignty of its citizens.

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Allen West “President Used Car Salesman, attempting to sell you a lemon”

Finish this sentence:

Since ObamaCare went into effect for individuals on October 1, my health insurance……………

Chances are someone you know has either lost their health care coverage or seen their premiums sky rocket…or maybe it’s happened to you.

So far, 5 million Americans have received notices that they’re being dropped by their insurance company at the end of the year. Millions more will see the cost of their coverage rise exponentially in 2014.

All because of ObamaCare.

Barack Obama lied to the American people about ObamaCare. Plain and simple.

For three years, the president assured us that we would have the option to keep our health plans if we wanted to. But he lied. Friends, that’s not a leader. That’s a used car salesman attempting to sell you a lemon.

America can do better.

Stand with me to elect the next generation of principled conservative leaders by donating $25, $50, $100, or more to the Allen West Guardian Fund today. 

Make no mistake about it: ObamaCare is a disaster and its namesake is to blame. But instead of talking about defunding and repealing it, we need to talk about solutions.

We need forward thinking leaders who will tackle ObamaCare head on and solve the current problems and anticipate additional unforeseen consequences, and the Guardian Fund is taking the lead. We have 14 principled conservative candidates ready to tackle America’s toughest problems.

With our help, these leaders will solve our health care problems, and lead America out of decline and back to greatness.

Thank you in advance for your support.

Steadfast and loyal,

Lt. Col. Allen B. West, USA (ret)
U.S. Congressman (2011-2013)

Allen West “Mayor Mia Love is about to become a household name.” @MiaBLove

You’ve probably never heard of her before, but you will soon…because Mayor Mia Love is about to become a household name.

Last summer she gave one of the most heart-felt and inspiring speeches I’ve heard at the Republican Convention and gave liberal Congressman Jim Matheson the fight of his political life in Utah’s 4th Congressional district. She lost by less than 800 votes, but fortunately for us, she’s up for a rematch.

Since announcing her candidacy in May, Mia has put Matheson and the liberal left on notice. She’s in the district every day meeting voters, participating in events, and holding Matheson accountable for voting in lockstep with Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. But Pelosi’s radical fundraising machine is preparing to launch an all-out assault against her.

Will you stand with me today to build the arsenal the Guardian Fund will use to fight back on behalf of candidates like Mia Love? Please follow this link to donate $25, $50, $100, or more today.

Mia Love is the quintessential Guardian Fund candidate. The daughter of Haitian immigrants, Mia knows what it takes to work hard and make ends meet—and she’s living proof the American Dream still exists.

Despite coming to the United States with just a few dollars to their name, Mia’s parents never took a free handout and instilled this principle in their daughter. Today Mia is an unwavering advocate for limited government, fiscal sanity, and personal responsibility—three things desperately missing in Washington.

We need steadfast conservatives, like Mia, fighting for us in Washington and that’s why I created the Guardian Fund. Please stand with me and make sure Mia and others like her win next November by donating $25, $50, $100, or more today.

Thank you in advance for your support.

Steadfast and loyal,

Lt. Col. Allen B. West, USA (ret)
U.S. Congressman (2011-2013)

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Allen West Guardian Fund | What We Have Is A Disaster

A new poll from Bloomberg shows 68% of Americans say the U.S. is on the wrong track.

Let me put that into perspective: 2 out of every 3 Americans believe this nation is heading in the wrong direction.

Friends, clearly something is very wrong in Washington.

	>>	We have a president who doesn’t know which way is up.
	>>	We have a Senate that’s trying to prove its significance by refusing to compromise.
	>>	We have a House that can’t even rally together members of the same party around a piece of legislation.

What we have is a disaster.

As we close in on our quarterly deadline, I need you to stand with me to usher in the next generation of conservative leaders. It’s our mission to send more principled conservatives to Congress, like Senator Ted Cruz, who never shy away from what they know is right. That’s why I’m asking you to invest in the Guardian Fund today to make sure we meet our $200,000 online goal for the quarter.

Please follow this link to donate $25, $50, $100 or more to the Guardian Fund today.

No matter how much you’re able to give, your support will bring us one step closer to electing 14 new hard-charging conservatives to Congress in 2014. Thank you in advance for your support.

Steadfast and loyal,

Lt. Col. Allen B. West, USA (ret)
U.S. Congressman (2011-2013)

Allen West Guardian Fund | We need to cut off President Obama and his liberal Congressional allies.

Dear Friends,

I need to hear from you today.

If you’re following the stand off between House Republicans, Senate Democrats, and the White House, I know you’ll agree it’s disgraceful. We should be ashamed that Congress and the White House have allowed our country to return to the edge of the fiscal cliff after we should have cut spending and balanced the budget in 2011 when we reached the debt ceiling then!

It’s time to usher in a new generation of conservative leadership to replace the ineffective and uninspiring “leaders” we have today. The Guardian Fund is working hard to elect 14 hard-charging conservatives to Congress in 2014 who will be staunch guardians of the Constitution and defenders of our conservative values, especially fiscal sanity. But we need your help. Please take a moment right now to read the email below and then click here to pledge your monthly support to the Guardian Fund. Whether your can give $5 or $25 a month, your support is critical to helping elect the next generation of conservative leaders.

America can do better. Please stand with the Guardian Fund today by investing $5, $10, or even $25 a month in our mission.

Thanks,

Allen

Did you hear what President Obama said the other day about raising the debt ceiling?

“…raising the debt ceiling, which has been done over a hundred times, does not increase our debt….”

You and I both know this simply isn’t true. If we say yes to more debt, we are saying yes to more spending. Congress cannot be trusted with our tax dollars. We would be crazy to give them more to waste!

American can do better.

That’s why the Guardian Fund is working overtime to elect 14 hard-charging conservatives to Congress in 2014 who will be staunch guardians of the Constitution and defenders of our conservative values. But we urgently need your help to reach our $5,000,000 target goal to ensure each of our hand-picked candidates wins next November.

President Obama just doesn’t get it.

America has got to stop spending! Our debt is so large it’s now a national security threat. We can’t keep borrowing from enemies, like China, and expect to never pay a price.

When you or I max out our credit cards, the credit card company cuts us off. Well, we need to cut off President Obama and his liberal Congressional allies.

Thank you in advance for your support.

Lt. Col. Allen B. West, USA (ret)
U.S. Congressman (2011-2013)

@AllenWest As I awoke to this 12th remembrance of 9/11, I was saddened to learn the news of the passing of my Congressional mentor

by Allen West – Facebook Timeline Photo’s

As I awoke to this 12th remembrance of 9-11, I was saddened to learn the news of the passing of my Congressional mentor, Representative E. Clay Shaw. Congressman Shaw welcomed me to South Florida upon my retiring from the US Army in 2004. I will never forget meeting him the first time and getting his blessing and endorsement to run in the congressional district which he had represented for over 26 years. Congressman Shaw was there with me the night of our victory in 2010 and sat beside me on the House floor the day of my swearing-in. E. Clay Shaw was truly an American Statesman, great husband, and tender father and grandfather. He will be sorely missed by so many and I shall continue to pursue the restoration of the America he so dearly loved. Fair winds and following seas Sir, Steadfast and Loyal.

 

Allen West ” You need to depose Hillary Clinton and bring her back and talk about why Amb. Stevens was in Benghazi on the 11th anniversary of Sept 11″

By Cheryl K. Chumley  for The Washington Times

Former Florida Rep. Allen West said Wednesday that Congress needs to appoint a special committee to investigate the Sept. 11, 2012, fatal attacks on America’s consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

“We’ve got a lot of questions,” he said, on Fox News. “This is why I believe we have to have that select committee to get to the bottom of these incidents. Right now, we have had this investigation across five different committees in the House of Representatives. We have not gotten anywhere.”

Mr. West suggested a committee with subpoena powers – similar to what’s been proposed by Virginia Rep. Frank Wolf for months.

“If we have one focused committee with subpoena powers that can get the survivors from Benghazi, get some of these CIA agents and operatives. And I think you need to depose Hillary Clinton and bring her back and talk about why Ambassador Chris Stevens was in Benghazi on the 11th anniversary of September 11,” he said, Newsmax reported.

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Allen West “Sharing some more items of hypocrisy when it comes to your government”

by Allen West via Facebook

Now and then I like to share with you some items of hypocrisy when it comes to our government. I just received another notice from the US House of Representatives Committee on Ethics relating to the Ethics in Government Act. Yes, I know what you’re thinking. It seems they want me to file another financial disclosure statement since I departed the Congress, and they threatened me with a $200 fine. Now would it just be simple to ask, are there any changes from your last statement? However, consider this, did anyone ask the IRS to submit a financial disclosure statement after 225 conferences over the past two years at the cost of $50 million to the American taxpayer? Did anyone ask Secretary of State John Kerry to file a financial disclosure statement after giving the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood government American taxpayer dollars — after Congress had stated no? So actually, why should I file a financial disclosure statement since the DOJ, IRS, and NSA can just secretly get all my financial, phone, email records anyway. Welcome to the hypocrisy of our Federal Government. This is similar to Satan asking Reverend Billy Graham to disclose his church attendance records. And yes, I will be calling my former colleague Rep. Michael Conaway, Chairman of the Committee on Ethics.

Allen West Weekly Wrap Up 5/10/13 – Benghazi, Extortion 17, Leadership and more

The Essence Of Leadership – Lessons from my life and recent American history

Back in 2003 as a combat battalion commander in Iraq, I made a decision that changed the course of my life. I took an action to protect the men under my command by firing my service 9 mm Beretta pistol over the head of an Iraqi policeman who we heard had been supporting insurgent forces with information leading to ambushes against our unit.

Left-wing progressives have stupidly called me a “war criminal,” and they unfortunately misinterpreted my departure from the military. Just so those chuckleheads know, I did not resign. I retired with full honors, benefits, rank and title. The problem for some critics of the war on terror is that they fail to understand we are not playing hopscotch but are engaged in battle with a non-state, non-uniformed enemy.

I understood that and will always stand by my action in 2003. Here was my response when asked if I would take the same action: “If it is about the lives and safety of my men, I would go through hell with a gasoline can.”

My Dad and older brother both served in combat, the former in World War II and the latter in Vietnam. They were enlisted servicemen, and I was the first commissioned officer in the family. (Now my nephew is the second.) Right before I headed off to Fort Sill, Okla., my Dad and brother taught me that as an officer and a commander, my first responsibility would be the well-being of my men.

The lesson they conveyed to me is that if my troops knew I would train them hard but never use them for my personal advancement, I would be a successful leader. We would always accomplish our mission.

Tough questions about Extortion 17

This week America has been confronted with tough questions about leadership.

The first queries came on Thursday at the National Press Club. I attended a press conference moderated by Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch. The subject was the horrific special operations mission of Aug. 6, 2011, call sign Extortion 17.

America suffered its single greatest loss of special operators – 22 Navy SEALS of the famous SEAL Team VI, five crewmembers of a U.S. Army CH-47 and three U.S. Air Force tactical controllers. Parents of four of the fallen warriors were at the press conference, which was live-streamed on www.trentovision.tv.

The event called attention to the importance of leadership because appalling, systemic failures in leadership resulted in this tragedy:

• Why was the quick reaction force called into action that day?

• Why were they transported in a CH-47D instead of the typical Special Operations MH-47 aircraft? Why was a CH-47D sent into the hot landing zone of a three-hour firefight?

• Why were there no pre-assault fires or accompanying attack helicopter support for Extortion 17?

• How did the Taliban know these special operators were going into that river valley hotbed in Wardak province?

• Why were seven Afghan commandos switched out at the last minute for this mission and the manifest never changed?

And most egregious, who made the decision to let a Muslim cleric give a prayer at the ramp ceremony for these fallen American warriors – a disrespectful scene made clear when one sees the video with translation?

Thanks to media bias, we do not hear much about Afghanistan, especially the fact that 79 percent of the deaths and nearly 15,000 casualties in Afghanistan have occurred during President Obama’s tenure as the commander-in-chief.

Benghazi is a big deal

Congressional hearings about the terror attack at the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya, further highlighted the results of lousy leadership. Again thanks to media bias, Americans might believe Benghazi is nothing worth discussing – old news that happened a long time ago. But imagine if the attack had happened during a Republican presidential administration.

The hearings forced the Obama administration to answer – or to dodge – questions about the tragedy:

• Why was U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens traveling into eastern Libya, a place where the black al Qaeda flags fly prominently, in or around the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks?

• Who gave the stand-down order to U.S. forces ready to help after the attack on the embassy began?

• Who altered the talking points memo that initially called the incident a terrorist attack by Ansar al-Sharia, who is affiliated with Al Qaeda?

 

Losing an ambassador cannot become the new normal, and abandoning former Navy SEALS engaged in mortal combat is reprehensible.

Are some Americans so concerned with protecting a likable president and shielding a presidential candidate they believe is entitled that they would sacrifice Americans? Do they seriously believe that is leadership?

Service versus speechmaking

Those who want to attack me for the action I took in Iraq, I just laugh at you. I took the action so I would never have to face tearful parents like those who lost their sons in Extortion 17. I took the action so the families of those killed in Benghazi – Ambassador Stevens, Sean Smith, Ty Woods and Glenn Dougherty – would not have to wonder why it happened.

Leaders serve those for whom they are given the privilege to lead. They do so selflessly, with no regard for their own personal advancement or comfort.

If we are to secure the blessings of liberty for the next generation, we had best figure out what a leader is. He or she is not a charlatan, not a usurper and certainly not merely a smiling, delightful speechmaker.

Steadfast and Loyal,

Allen B. West