George Holt Jr

Freedom Denied George Holt Jr

This book is about the corruption of American politics and how the powerful elites tend to enslave American minorities and impoverish the working class. It is not a treatise about how horrible or wonderful one political party is in comparison to the other. It is about how the elites and the politicians, including some of our presidents, have abused their power, resulting in a loss of freedom for the American people. Those who have suffered the most have been minorities such as African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and white lower-class citizens. The author's real-life experience comes from being raised as a member of one of those minorities, the social class termed 'poor white people', a financially disadvantaged lower class recognized as a minority. Since the war on poverty began in the 1960s, a large segment of our population has become increasingly dependent on government to meet their needs. This has had a devastating impact on families as "big government" has virtually destroyed the family unit. The most startling symptom, appearing among minorities, is that a majority of children are now being born out of wedlock and growing up without a father in the home. It's not that minorities wanted this to happen. It's how state and federal programs created the incentive for it to happen. As a result, pride, dignity, and initiative has all but disappeared from this segment of our population. Will anyone come to the rescue of these minorities? Certainly not the elites nor big business interests, and definitely not the politicians in our "do-nothing" congress. They have their own self-serving priorities to worry about. Once in power a politician's main goal is to stay in power. They do this by using taxpayer dollars to "buy" votes by providing "freebies" to their constituents and enacting laws that favor certain voting blocks, or as payback to big donors that rely on very low-cost labor, mostly illegal immigrant labor. This cheap labor pool has decimated wages in those labor categories once open to minorities, thus creating road blocks that prevent their escape from the welfare state. Freedom is not free for this segment of the American populace. This book offers solutions to remove those road blocks and provide a clear path forward to freedom.