Falling In Love With America Again
by Jim DeMint
Discover the Solutions Revealed in America’s Families & Communities
Jim DeMint, former U.S. Senator and President of The Heritage Foundation, casts a spotlight on Americans like you — local heroes who reveal answers to the real issues.
In story after story, DeMint and leaders across America give firsthand accounts of overcoming obstacles in education, health care… and other concerns Washington has failed to solve. It’s an inspiring journey, with solid research insights thanks to contributions from Heritage Foundation experts.
Jim DeMint giving a talk and brief insight into his journey writing "Falling in Love With America Again" in Washington D.C. on March 6, 2014.
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About the Author
Head of the highly respected conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation and former Senator from South Carolina, Jim DeMint is also the author of three books — including the best-selling Saving Freedom. The senator and his wife, Debbie, reside in Greenville, South Carolina and are the proud parents of four married children. They are also greatly enjoying their new role as grandparents.
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Read the introduction of Falling in Love with America Again. Copyright 2014 by Jim DeMint and The Heritage Foundation. Reprinted by permission of Center Street. All rights reserved. Download a PDF of this sample here.
I should have been the happiest of politicians. I was a respected U.S. senator from my home state of South Carolina. I had played a key role, through my political action committee, in bringing principled conservatives like Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, and other new leaders to join me in the Senate. I was cheered when I addressed local and national rallies of the Tea Party, a dynamic new force in American politics. I was a frequent guest on television and radio, and quoted in leading newspapers and journals. I had challenged the Washington establishment and forced it to make major concessions on supposedly untouchable practices like earmarks.
By standing for fundamental American ideas like limited constitutional government and individual responsibility, and against politics as usual, I had made a difference in how Washington worked.
And yet I was deeply frustrated by how little Washington had really changed. We still have an ever-expanding federal government and an ever-mounting national debt—approaching $17 trillion as I write in mid-2013. As of 2013, the share of federal debt for every man, woman, and child in America is $53,000.
And despite all the trillions of dollars owing from Washington, the of cial unemployment gure, as I write, hovers between 7 and 8 percent—and some Americans have dropped out of the labor force altogether. The real wages of the average American worker have not risen in thirty years. And we have a permanent underclass dependent upon government for everything from their food to their housing.
No matter how hard other conservatives in Congress and I tried to stop it, the federal government kept metastasizing, invading every aspect of the life of every American.
I started to wonder what kind of future my four grown children and four grandchildren face. There was a time when many of us believed that the American dream would endure forever because America was too big to fail. But the warning signs cannot be ignored. Economic weakness and cultural decay are all around us. I fear that many institutions in America, and especially govern- ment, may have gotten too big to succeed.
