We bring on the one and only Seth
Grossman, and, the the book is, I I
breezed through it quickly.
1676
project, how New Jersey shaped America.
You gotta pick it up, I tell you.
It's it's a good one. Seth, good morning.
Welcome.
I'm glad you like it, and it's finally
for sale here in Somers Point for $20,
as well as on Amazon for $25.
And, of course, all the details are at
libertyandprosperity.com,
and we meet for breakfast
every Saturday at 09:30 to 10:30 at Sal's
Coal Fired Pizza in Somers Point. The books
will be there.
The books will be at the Atlantic County
Historical Society if you want to borrow them.
I'll be going,
this afternoon after the meeting to the, African
American Heritage Museum at 01:00
in Atlantic City right across the street from
Angelo's Fairmount Tavern.
And that that book really says a lot,
because,
first of all, it's a it's a great
coffee table book that will make anyone who
reads it
a maven
on South Jersey history and trivia.
And I thought it was interesting. I gave,
your producer, Chris, a copy of the book,
and he happened to mention that just flipping
through the book.
He, he noticed the picture of,
a Leni Lenape chief,
at Tediouscombe,
that's featured in the book. And he said,
gee, when I was a kid, I I
I had a we our family had a
cottage in the Poconos
on the Tediouscombe
Trail.
And now I know all about, you know,
the the guy that they named the trail
after. So you you find and I said
there are nuggets like that all over the
book. Why Bargain Town got to be Bargain
Town,
who Summers Point is named after. Now all
these little details how Ag Harbor got named.
So I think, you'll find it enjoyable for
that reason.
But, another important reason is, you know, if
you're a conservative
and you believe you know that America's a
good country and we boomers grew up in
it. And one thing I found out,
no matter if you're a boomer,
whether you're black, whether you're white, whether you're
Hispanic, whatever background you had,
there's one thing that that our generation knows
for sure.
And that is America
was a whole lot better off fifty or
sixty years ago
for almost everybody
than it is today.
And our kids for the last three generations
have been taught what a horrible place America
was and how we fundamentally have to change
it. And since we've been changing America,
things are going from bad to worse to
even worse.
But our generation, we really don't know. We
know things were better,
but we don't know why they were better.
And, and that's what this book explains, you
know, how
New Jersey
was shaped back in 1676,
a hundred years before the American Revolution
and the things that happened.
And, like, there's one one interesting observation about
the book.
Thank you. I have a passage
about
how New Jersey and Pennsylvania
were,
were were good and inviting for poor people.
Every visitor from Europe and England
wrote when coming to New Jersey in the
sixteen hundreds
that the most remarkable thing about New Jersey
and Pennsylvania
was there weren't any poor people.
They said if you go to England or
anywhere in Europe,
you see poor people begging.
You see, people out of work going from
town to town begging for work.
He said you don't see any of that
in America. You see, in America,
everybody's busy. Everybody's working.
Everybody's prosperous,
everybody's living in these comfortable
brick homes.
And and people were wondering, well, how did
this happen?
And and you'll see that the book explains
it. You know, first,
kids were taught
two basic principles.
Follow the golden rule,
do unto others as you would have them
do unto you,
and learn a useful trade,
and learn how to read and write and
do arithmetic so you can support yourself in
your own household.
And the other thing that they did, they
set up a government
that had almost no taxes.
The only purpose of government was to settle
disputes,
protect property,
lock up criminals,
but everything else people did on their own.
So we were the had the lowest taxes
and the least government
than any other society in,
in probably human history.
And I thought that was amazing because it's
what I did on Thursday,
I went to deliver a copy personally deliver
a copy
of the book to Denny Levinson, our county
executive.
So I drove down Atlantic Avenue,
parked across from the county office building,
and what did I see?
I saw an entire line of dozens and
dozens of people lined up
for their free EBT cards, for their free
vouchers.
You know, I saw nothing but poor people,
lined up around our county government. So it
just shows how we've taken
South Jersey
and and we had a beautiful,
society where everybody was prosperous and nobody was
poor
precisely because it was not the government's job
to help the poor.
It was the job of everybody to support
themselves
and if somebody through disease,
through divorce,
through death, through some tragedy,
had a bad situation, the whole community would
voluntarily
help that person,
and get them back on their feet. And
so we we have the opposite now of
what we had when New Jersey was founded.
So that's one part of the story.
The second part of the story is, you
know, I I gave the book to Denny
Levinson,
and then I was having a problem because
I think
this book tells so much on so many
different levels
about what every person living in South Jersey
ought to know about our state,
especially
on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
America.
So I approached our Atlanta County Library to
have them,
you know, have copies of the book available
in the library.
And I did that three weeks ago.
And what I found out was
nobody in the library
would was even returning a phone call to
me.
And they, you know, I know know they
read the book because,
somebody there said, oh, yeah. We ordered a
copy of the book and we read it.
And I said, okay. So is it going
to be
purchased by the law library and made on
display?
And,
you know, no answer. You know? No, it's
a voice mail. So one of the most
remarkable things that happened
was Denny Levinson intervened.
And I have no idea what Denny Levinson
did or said,
but all I know is within an hour
and a half of my delivering that book
to Denny Levinson,
I get a call from the library, Atlantic
County Library. Oh, that book is very interesting.
We'd like to purchase it. We're gonna have
two copies available
at every branch of the Atlantic County Library
starting next week. And by the way, if
you'd like to,
have a book signing at our library or
events at the library branches, we'll be couldn't
be more helpful in putting it together.
So all I could say is what a
difference,
one, I guess, phone call by Denny Levin
could could make,
to get something done. And I'm very proud
of him and thankful to him,
for,
I I guess, changing the attitude of the
Atlanta County Library.
Well, when he comes on later on, I'll
thank him for you. Okay?
Yeah. And and and it's not just the
Atlanta County Library at so many levels. This
book ought to be in every public school
in South Jersey.
Just another detail.
This is the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of the,
American independence.
And on May 2, I believe, a Saturday,
there's a special Atlantic County committee set up,
to explain the American Revolution
and to, to have reenactors and other,
I I guess, materials out there to explain
the American Revolution.
So I called the organizers of that committee
and said, oh, boy. By the way, I
have this book that not only explains the
American Revolution, it explains
what happened in a hundred years before the
American Revolution to make it possible.
Would you like me to, present the book,
or talk about the book there?
And the answer I got from one committee
member, oh, that's too political. We can't we
can't do that. So this is really this
book is becoming,
really the central point of Liberty and Prosperity's
program.
Because
for the last fifty years,
it's been normal
for our libraries, for our pop culture, for
our classrooms to just teach.
America was built, on slavery. America was built
on conquest and extermination of the Indians. America
was built on toxic men who kept women
under their thumb.
Every bit of that is an absolute lie.
And my book,
a point by point refutes
every one of those lies.
So notice what they do. When they have,
all these books and programs and teaching materials
with one lie after another,
they call that education.
When I have a book which is fully
documented and present the facts that exposes those
lies,
suddenly my book is political and can't go
in a library, can't go into school, can't
go in a historical event. And so I
think the battle over this book is a
lot more than a book. It's really the
battle over truth. And I urge all of
your listeners to not only either buy the
book or get the book at the library,
but make sure this book is purchased by
every school library,
every historical society.
So I need every person listening now
to make the kind of a phone call
that Benny Levinson made last Thursday.
Now whether you're in Cape May County, Cumberland
County, Ocean County, wherever this signal goes,
to to get the truth,
into our, our, you know, institutions.
That's a big priority.
You know,
Denny did did you a solid. Believe me.
But,
where else can you go for help?
Well, we we we've got well, we have
Republicans
running,
Cape May County.
We have Republicans in Cumberland County. We have
Republicans running most of the towns in Atlantic
and Cape May County, and yet they let
the teachers union and the library unions,
who all are these woke leftist
control,
you know, the the education system, the library,
the teaching, all these, special events.
And, even though the
every Republican mayor, every Republican township committeeman
has the same power that Denny Levinson has
with the county library,
they do absolutely nothing.
Maybe they do nothing because they don't,
think it's important or they don't know or
maybe they don't wanna make enemies over it.
But I think, if if your listeners start
demanding that book and demanding,
true history be brought into not just the
county library but, you know, the school libraries,
the historical societies, the special events that these
towns have from time to time,
that's that's how we change the culture because
let's face it.
If if we train generation after generation of
our kids
to hate America,
you know, that's the what the Democratic Party
has become, the party that hates America.
So how are you gonna win how how
are you gonna beat the Democrats in any
election
if, you know, two thirds of the voters
under the age of 40 hate America, and
they're gonna vote for candidates who hate America.
So there's a lot at stake here, and
I'm afraid that too many,
Republican officials don't understand that.
Yeah. I agree with you. I agree.
But look, you're fighting the good fight.
Meanwhile, there's there's some other stuff going on,
and and and this is sort of related.
And as aggravated as I get from,
my fellow Republicans, you know, being Jewish,
my my Jewish leaders give me, you know,
even more heartburn.
So, anyway, on Monday,
throughout the world and in, Margate, New Jersey,
there's gonna be an observance,
to remember the holocaust
from World War two.
And,
in Margate at, 05:30 at the Beth El
Synagogue on Jerome Avenue,
There'll be a community wide observance.
And,
in the past, you know, it's a very
moving
ceremony and it's very important.
But for the past few years, it's been
very poorly attended.
And and there are basically two reasons for
that.
One is that, people saying, well, what what
are you observing the holocaust,
in April 4? We had the,
you know, we had the observance in January.
And and there's a big difference between the
January observance.
That was an international
United Nations observance,
which basically is a communist holiday.
Why why is the holocaust remembered in January
by the United Nations?
Because that was when the communist Russian army,
the red army,
liberated one of the concentration
camps.
So they made the holiday all about how
wonderful the communist are
and how the evil fascist and the right
wing and, you know, all the
the standard millionaires and billionaires enemies of the
left.
They turn it into that holiday, and they
turn the the January
left wing woke,
holocaust observance.
They tied that into,
black so it's the holocaust in January. It's
Black History Month in February.
It's,
women's,
I guess, women's history month in March. It's
gay pride in,
in May, and then it's Juneteenth in June.
All these holidays to celebrate victims
of the,
white toxic Christian heterosexual men that fits into
that whole what they call intersectional
woke agenda.
And of course, the Jewish,
holocaust observance is,
Jews were persecuted
when the Jews had no country of their
own. So they established Israel
and they turned though what used to be
a desert and malaria swamps
into a paradise and you have a strong
and prosperous country.
You see that's
that's not the narrative that the leftist won.
The leftist won a a a narrative that
if you're a victim,
you will always be a victim unless you
have, you know, the woke, leftist communist or,
you know, democrats taking care of you. And
because Israel is self sufficient,
and and the people worked to build their
own country so they don't need to be,
helped by anybody else, that's the wrong agenda.
So that's one problem. But the other problem
is our Jewish leadership,
ties into that. It's almost like, your Jewish
leadership is looking for love in all the
wrong places.
They wanna be accepted by the leftist. They
wanna be accepted by the Muslims.
So instead of of linking the antisemitism
in Europe
and saying, hey, this is exactly
what the Quakers went through in England. And
that's why the Quakers came over and they
established New Jersey and Pennsylvania
and built a model society here.
The Jews did the same thing with Israel.
So instead of making common cause with Americans
and traditional Americans and the Quakers,
and instead of making common cause with, the
Hindus who are also being persecuted and massacred
by by the Muslims in India and Bangladesh,
you know, too many Jewish leaders are making
alliances with all the wrong people, and that's
another big problem that we're having. So I
just thought I'd bring that that to your
attention.
But you you never run out of material.
That's for sure.
Alright. I just have two more points I
like to to bring up.
The latest thing that's going on, of course,
the Democrats have caused
the, high electric bills that we have by
shutting down all the most productive power plants
and making us rely on energy that's produced
hundreds of miles away.
So, of course, now that, Mikey Shell is
our governor, the Democrats are doing whatever they
can to distract the fact
that the, you know, the high electric bills
are all their fault, and they have no
intention
of, producing,
you know, natural gas, electricity, nuclear electricity,
bringing back those power plants to bring down
the prices. So they're looking for someone else
to blame it on. And and so they're
going around to have all these petitions and
resolutions
to stop the data centers,
from,
you know, from getting electricity.
And it's all a distraction, and so we're
gonna be working on a resolution,
to get counts instead of saying,
you know, don't allow data centers. We're saying,
well, don't give special breaks to the data
centers,
but why not bring electricity prices down for
everybody
by rebuilding the nuclear power plants, by rebuilding
the,
the gas power plants that were destroyed by
Murphy. And even more important,
don't allow the BPU, the Board of Public
Utilities,
to use money from our electric bills,
to finance all these woke,
green projects
like moving mud in the swamp from one
place to another,
in Avalon, which they call, you know, environmental
restoration.
And that leaves just one more point.
You know, it's horrible that we have
thousands of of refugees from Haiti and there
are many violent criminals. You had that horrible
tragedy in Fort Myers, Florida,
where a violent Haitian who had no business
be here
murdered that that poor mother who had just
stopped in to get gas in Fort Myers,
Florida.
And one insight that I had
while coming back from,
from Florida
driving to the airport, I had a Lyft
driver from Haiti.
And basically he said there are hundreds of
thousands of Haitians just like him
who wanna go back to Haiti. And he
said if the United States government
would just do a little bit,
to get rid of the gangsters and thugs
who are running Haiti so it's safe to
go back. He said they'd all wanna go
back to Haiti so we have to think
about that. Instead of having,
every poor person in the world come to
America, there's a lot we could do to
make life better, for people in those countries.
Basically, all we have to do is make
it safe. And we know how to do
it because we see in El Salvador, you
just lock up the criminals,
only 4% of the people commit 90% of
the crimes. Anyway,
libertyandprosperity.com,
will be meeting from 09:30 to 10:30, Saturday.
All the information on the web Have a
great weekend again there. You too. Thanks, Seth.
Seth Grossman, libertyandprosperity.com
is the website.