The man who is a friend of mine
called you a walking encyclopedia,
Seth. What what do you think about that?
Yes. I I remember all the important things
that happened four hundred years ago, but to
remember a name or a birthday or an
anniversary,
you know,
not for the life of me, but I
do the best I can. So anyway, I'm
calling from
West Palm Beach, Florida.
I'm down with my,
my daughter, one of my daughters, my son-in-law,
two grandkids.
So I'm a little bit removed from the
day to day.
But I just wanna begin by paying tribute
to, a guy called Bill Labarre.
He died last last December, but they're gonna
have a tribute for him at the
at the log cabin in Margate,
tomorrow, Sunday, March 29 at 11:00.
And he was one of the five original
members of the Chelsea Neighborhood Association
with me
back in 1975
that ended up becoming Liberty and Prosperity.
That was him. There was a guy called
Jimmy Maslin.
It was, doctor Stuart Malley's wife, Annette Malley.
Five of us started it. And, as we
get older, we you know, we're we're fading,
but I just wanna pay
a special tribute to him for starting helping
to start the movement
fifty one years ago. So if anyone remembers
him or knows him, tomorrow is the way
to pay tribute, and he notices her in
the press of Atlantic City.
So,
anyway, when you talk about the the goal
of making America great again,
one of the things that is obvious
is that to make America great again, we
can't depend
on the government to do it, and we
can't depend on president Trump to do it.
A whole lot of things made America great,
and, and we have to do certain things
as Americans
to make America great again.
And being with my grandkids, you know, one
of the little details I
appreciated
is just how important it is
for young people to get married
and have children
and have families.
And one of the best ways to build,
Americans, good Americans, strong Americans
is as simple as
the family having dinner,
together every night
with mom and dad and and the kids
together around the dinner table
starting by, you know, saying a blessing over
the bread or saying grace.
No cell phones, no distractions,
no TV,
everybody facing each other,
exchanging ideas of what you did today, what
are you going to do tomorrow,
little everyday conversation. You really appreciate
the importance of that stuff because it teaches
manners, respect,
letting somebody else speak first, then you know,
you talk.
And it's not easy. It takes discipline.
You know, kids want
you know, run out. They they they, they
wanna be on their cell phones. They wanna
do a zillion other things, but parents have
to set the rules.
And after a while, it becomes a very
pleasant experience.
And I would say that impressed me more
than the whole lot of political stuff I've
been doing,
during the past few months.
You know,
you make a good point.
How many times
and I see it with my my,
my niece and my grandson.
How many times, you know, you sit at
the table, he's on his phone,
the TV's on
Yeah.
And and the husband's upstairs doing something, and
and and she's calling everybody, come on to
dinner. You know, it's it's really it's hard.
You you're absolutely right. It's hard to do.
It's hard to accomplish
because there are too many distractions.
Right. But but we spend too much of
our time saying, well, the president ought to
do this or the government ought to do
this or the congress ought to do this,
And we can't get
mom and dad and the kids to sit
together
at the same table, you know, for for
one
a forty five minute period every day or
maybe four or five days a week to
teach kids what it's like to live in
a civilized society. So,
I got a lot of insight, and I
really have a lot of admiration
for my daughter and son-in-law because it's not
easy. They're both working. They both have to,
you know, juggle their schedules to do this,
but it's important to them. And I'm glad
it is, and I want to reward or
or recognize all the families who do that.
And when we see,
and I was complaining last week about the,
Casino Reinvestment Development Authority giving $96,000
to the Atlanta County Queer Alliance.
When we talk about the Ocean City Public
Schools teaching third and fourth graders, you know,
to to understand the three or four different
kinds of sex to have.
We need to be teaching our kids and
our,
and young people the importance of getting married
of the traditional life. Now, I you know,
if somebody wants an alternative lifestyle,
you know, they have the
constitutional and moral right to do it, but
we shouldn't be using the resources and tax
dollars to encourage,
alternative lifestyles. We gotta, you know, worry about
the future, and the future is families
and moms and dads getting married and having
kids because without that,
we have no country. If if we don't
have children, then we have to depend on
the immigrants,
with different cultures who in many ways hate
everything about our country, and there's no future.
So so I that's important. Of course, we
think about
that at the holidays
and of course, tomorrow, the Sunday is Palm
Sunday.
The, the Jewish Passover Seder is Wednesday night
And both of these holidays are linked,
Jewish Passover and
Christian Easter because they're both based on their
first full moon,
in spring. You know, after the
equinox on March 21, the first full moon,
that first Sunday afterwards is, is Easter,
and and that's also the Passover Seder. So
we think about that common tradition.
And, and and one of the things that
frankly disappointed me, even though I'm I'm Jewish,
is that my kids
know nothing about Easter. I mean, they go
to public schools here in Florida,
don't know anything about the, you know, Peter
Cottontail or the Bunny Trail or the Easter
bunny.
And, and and I remember as a Jewish
kid growing up,
I remember
in elementary school,
before Easter, we had to eat oatmeal.
Why we have to eat oatmeal? Because we
had to get that little barrel
shaped box, cardboard box, with the Quaker Oats
because that's what you'd bring to school, and
they'd turn it into an Easter basket with
some construction paper.
And, of course, we had I don't know
if you went through this too, but,
for two or three weeks before
Easter in elementary school in Atlantic City, we
had to have scrambled eggs because you had
to put a tiny little hole in the
egg
to make the eggs
so that you could bring the the eggshells
to school, and they they dye them, so
they put them in the Easter basket.
And and and we Jewish kids, you know,
learned all about Easter and sang the songs,
and it was a a very pleasant thing.
And, of course, on Passover, we would bring
our matzah into school for lunch.
We didn't impose it on anybody else, but
we learned each other's traditions
and how much we had in common,
and and it was a good thing.
And,
and I just wanna bring one one side
thing. My grandmother,
came from the old country in Eastern Europe
where,
they had a massacre of Jews on Easter
Sunday,
in a place called Kishnev,
in the Russian Empire in nineteen o three.
So she survived that
and was always fearful
every Easter because of that.
And then she comes to America
and, and her daughter, my mom, you know,
living in Atlantic City and and the fact
that we would have our Passover Seder,
one night and then that Sunday, we'd go
on the Easter parade, you know, and get
get dressed up in our finest,
you know, suits and go on the boardwalk
and walk. And she had such joy
to say only in America,
you know, could could Jews like us enjoy,
you know, living, you know, as normal people.
And she would say, you know, God bless
Columbus. That was her favorite saying. And,
you you know, we have to remember how
much we Americans had in common with a
great country we have and and to remember
doing the things that made this country great.
So if I sound real sentimental, it's just
being with family
for the holidays
and, you know, the politics comes and goes,
but these are the values, these are the
traditions
that built America. And if we're going to
make America great again, we have to start,
having dinner with our families,
and and talk to our kids and put
the cell phones away and turn the TV
off
and and, tell our children what we, boomers,
and our you know, learn from our parents
and grandparents and teach them to our children
and grandchildren.
You know,
you're you're taking a different tone today than
you normally do, and and that's, that's that's
good. That's a good thing.
So
and and by the way, another way I
took this tone is,
I've been talking about writing that history book,
and I did write a history book. 224
pages. Lots of pictures. Big print.
Any adult would find it very readable. Any
ninth grader or tenth grader would also find
it, readable.
It's called the 1676
project,
how New Jersey shaped America.
And anyone could buy that book right now
for $24.95
by going on Amazon
and having it delivered.
But if you're patient
and you live near Somers Point,
in two weeks,
that book will be for sale for only
$20
at, at Liberty and Prosperity breakfast that we
have, every,
Saturday morning, 09:30 to 10:30 at Sal's Cold
Fired Pizza.
So bring $20, you could buy the book
there. Or by appointment,
you could buy it at the Liberty and
Prosperity office
in Somers Point.
In that book,
I I spent nine months writing that book.
Every single fact in there is documented.
It's it's absolutely
true. It's absolutely undisputed.
And the the schools and colleges, it's not
like they
teach something different. It's just they don't mention
these stories at all.
Basically, our kids are taught this fake history
of the 1619
project
and of the Disney movie Pocahontas,
which basically says that America was based on
what happened in Virginia in 1619,
That America was built everything we have here,
our prosperity, our wealth, our comfort,
everything was built on violence, conquest, and slavery
that they had in Virginia in 1619.
And what my book, the 1676
project,
fully documents
is not at all. America was built on
what the Quakers built here in in in
South Jersey
in 1676.
And I detailed the story of
George Fox founding the Quaker movement
that was built on the golden rule, love
your neighbor as yourself, do unto others as
you would have them do unto you,
basically treat everybody equally, everybody fairly,
have a government that only provides the basic
services that everybody else is you uses.
If you if it's not for everybody, then
the government doesn't do it. You have private
associations do it. By doing it that way,
they had almost no taxes.
They had equal opportunity. They respected private property
that if if,
you know, Eustace Mead and wanna build a
hotel in his property, he'd build a hotel
in his his property, and he wouldn't have
to, you know, get the permission of, of
9,000 other people who had nothing to do
with his project.
We had,
you know, a guy called, George Summers built
a,
a sawmill
in,
in Bargain Town.
He got tired of, paying for feed to
have these oxen go around in a circle
to, to turn the wheel to grind the
grain into,
flour.
So he built a dam, and it had
water flowing over the dam, and the dam,
the water flowing over the dam turned a
wheel. And that way, he he, you know,
had had a sawmill, had a had a
what they call it, a gristmill to make
the flour.
And and he didn't have to get permission
from all of his neighbors to do that.
I mean, obviously, if you flood your neighbor's
property, you have to, you know, you can't
do that. You can't, have,
obnoxious fumes or smoke ruining your neighbor's property.
But if you own the property and if
you don't bother your neighbor, you should be
free to do what you wanna do. And
they built this wonderful low tax society
where people would come over,
with nothing but debt.
And within ten years, they'd be either middle
class or wealthy. And that was the society
we had in New Jersey and America for
three hundred years.
And by the way, in New Jersey,
they,
there had been slavery and within
three generations,
you know, the settlers of New Jersey influenced
by the Quakers ended slavery. So we have
so much to be proud of in our
heritage
and I just invite everybody to get that
book.
And by the way, I think it's important
for that book to end up in our
public libraries,
in our historical societies, and in our public
schools. So if anyone
wants to work with us in getting that
book
either for yourself or distributed,
go to our website. It's all all the
details are there, libertyandprosperity.com,
or go to Amazon. You have a whole
description of the book in amazon.com,
or, email us at info@libertyandprosperity.com.
And we'll certainly have you on the program
here to talk about the book.
You know, I I think it's very important.
And just to to show how important it
is and how it affects daily affairs,
last,
I guess, Wednesday, March 25,
the United Nations had a resolution
declaring that the Transatlantic
slave trade was the gravest crime against humanity
and that all member states must consider making
apologies
and paying reparations
to the victim of that horrible crime.
And that resolution passed a 123
yes votes. There are only three no votes.
The United States, Israel, and Argentina,
and 52 other countries abstain.
But if you go to chapter 12 of
of the,
my book, the sixteen seventy six project,
it goes into great detail of how you
had slavery
normal
in most of the world. You had the
native Americans were making slaves out of people
and other tribes.
You had African tribes were enslaving each other
and certain African tribes
sold the slaves that they already captured
to Europeans in exchange for guns, ammunition, and
other European goods. So, yeah, the Europeans
took part in something that was normal in
virtually the entire world, but it was the,
Europeans
led by the English and the Americans
who ended slavery,
based on you know the Christian principle of,
doing to others as you would do into
them the golden rule. So I think it's
important to know that
and, and that book is very important.
And I guess my my final point is
and I know I say this over and
over again.
Our governor, Mikey Sherrill, said Atlantic City
is almost ready to stand on its own
two feet and won't need handouts from state
taxes anymore.
And and that whole narrative is she is
continuing the lie started by Chris Christie.
There was nothing wrong with Atlantic City. Atlantic
City,
in 2008
was hit with
a really a depression.
And now, the economy was devastated. There was
no money coming in. There was an urgent
need to cut spending,
because all these tax money coming in had
been cut.
But governor Chris Christie, the Republican, was running
for president,
and he decided he didn't want any layoffs.
He didn't want any cutbacks,
and he took over Atlantic City and put
Atlantic City $400,000,000
into
illegal debt.
And it's that debt that illegal debt because
state law says every city is supposed to
have a balanced budget.
Chris Christie, by taking over the state, borrowed
money illegally.
Atlantic City should have filed for bankruptcy, should
have brought all sorts of,
legal actions
to make the state,
pay for that illegal debt. But they took
over the city government not to make a
man Atlantic City government better, but to prevent
that lawsuit from taking place. So Mikey Sherrill
is just repeating the lie that Chris Christie,
perpetuated for his eight years in office, and
I think people ought to know that.
Anyway,
I I wish I could say more, but
I'm out of time. And, here I am
in Florida, and the the the pool and
the the sunshine is inviting.
So I wish,
you, John, a a very happy Easter. First,
of course, Palm Sunday. Happy Easter.
And to all the listeners and all all
my Jewish friends,
a very happy Passover.
And, let's make America great, and and let
us boomers who live through those times teach
our children and grandchildren what we did to
do that. So thank you very much. Thank
you, Seth, and, happy pass over to you
and,
your members of Liberty and Prosperity. Happy Easter
as well.
Seth Grossman, Liberty and Prosperity is the organization
and the website libertyandprosperity.com.
The meeting gets started at 09:30 this morning.
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