Friend --

Remember Cornel West and Tavis Smiley?

Well, they went to Madison, Wisconsin the other day to launch their “Poverty Tour 2.0” and to "take back the land."

In a video that was captured at their arrival in Madison, they huddled with their adoring masses who chanted “Housing is a human right. That’s why we stand and fight.”

I had to hear it twice because I couldn’t believe what I was hearing in America!

They complained about budget shortcuts that are impacting the government transfers of wealth from taxpayers to those collecting welfare and insisted on “community control” of the land.
 

Tavis Smiley and Cornel West convince Americans that dependency is the path to equality.

Friend, please don’t dismiss Smiley and West as radical progressives who no one pays attention to anymore.

Their joint book, “The Rich and the Rest of Us” debuted in April at #1 on The Washington Post Book World Best Sellers List and peaked at #7 on the New York Times Best Sellers List.

Academia is in love with them.

These two poverty masters teach Americans that they have no rights in our country.

They teach only the rich have rights at the expense of the poor. They teach there's no reason to work hard or finish an education because there's nothing to gain.

They teach the transfer of wealth from the rich to the poor is the solution to poverty. They teach government should be a tool to enforce distribution of money. They teach dependency.

But I know what dependency looks like. I lived on and off of welfare for seven miserable years of my life.

That’s why I called out Cornel West and Tavis Smiley to debate me this fall on a college campus anywhere in America.

Like our founders, I teach that every American, rich and poor, has rights. But our rights must be exercised through initiative and hard work or we give them away to a tyrannical government. Our founders knew this well.

Americans who refuse to exercise their God-given rights without hard work and initiative will not succeed. It’s a truth distributionists like West and Smiley say they don’t believe.

But we’ve given their path a chance.

For nearly 50 years, we’ve promised the poor that they don’t need to work as long as the government gives away housing, food and cell phones. But what has the poor and our nation gained?

Right now, our national poverty rate is identical to when the so-called “war on poverty” began 50 years ago.

What we’ve gained is nearly half of our country -- people capable of working -- feeding at the trough of government largesse.

Communists like Smiley and West are salivating at the suffering and plan to dismantle America one person at a time. With a high national unemployment rate (over 14 percent in the black community!), West and Smiley have a ripe audience to convert to their beliefs.

If they continue to succeed, America will cease to exist as we know her.

Their "poverty tour", as they call it -- where they sell their book and teachings -- is certainly accurate because what they sell is poverty for all Americans.

I have not yet heard whether West or Smiley will take up my offer for a polite debate. For convenience, I agreed to debate them both at the same time -- after all, they say the same thing.

While West and Smiley plan to spread their poverty tour across America until election day, I will continue to spread the message of prosperity and freedom.

Will you join me and tell Americans the truth about our country?
 

Tavis Smiley and Cornel West convince Americans that dependency is the path to equality.

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