My personal story is very symbolic of the American Dream. I am a second generation Mexican-American born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota.
I am the eldest of seven brothers and sisters and sixty-four first cousins. My professional background is in mortgage finance, however early on in my promising career, my life changed forever.
I was nearly killed when a stranger standing on a highway overpass launched a large stone that crashed into my car and smashed me directly into my abdomen causing massive internal bleeding.
Just like America, I was knocked down. I went from earning a six-figure income to no income in a matter of months. One by one, I began to lose everything. I sold my car, I lost my house, and I lost my savings.
Just like America, I went into recovery. As I began to heal and grow stronger, I witnessed first-hand the mortgage meltdown and the collapse of the entire financial system in the fall of 2008. As the gloom and doomers on TV were saying the world was ending, the banks and politicians were calling for massive bailouts.
I called Senator Amy Klobuchar and Congresswoman Betty McCollum expressing my opposition against “Too Big to Fail.” Despite the vast majority of Minnesotans being against the bank bailouts, Amy and Betty voted to bail them out with our money.
Since then, our national debt has grown by 4 trillion dollars, unemployment has increased markedly, and bank foreclosure rates remain at all time highs.
The stimulus programs supported by Senator Klobuchar, President Obama and the Democrats are destroying the American Dream for our children and we must change course now!
I have learned from my life experiences that when life knocks you down, you dust yourself off and you try again. This is exactly what America must do right now.
We don’t need to reinvent the wheel. We must simply restore the rights and principles described within the United States Constitution and we will rebuild the American Dream.
