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I immigrated to the US when I was a very young child. But just because I was young didn’t mean I wasn’t aware that I was leaving behind my home, family and friends. I was very attached to the things I knew, and as all children I weary of change. My father told me we were leaving for a better place, a place where there were great schools and millions of opportunities to exceed and achieve great things in life. A place that was untouched by plagues of corruption, lies and deceit. A place where your worth as a man was based on your merit and your character, not of blood or money. A place where your hard work was valued more than your race, religion, or creed. A place where you are free.

My father was an architect back home. He was well respected and admired in our social circles. As a man of principal, he taught me at a very early age, that if a man does one thing in his life that is right, just one, then he must not lie. Lies are the great equalizer, and contrary to popular belief that money is the root of all evil, I firmly believe that lies are the root of all evil. You can do great things with money, but lies destroy the very fabric of what it is to be human.

Like most immigrants from “third world” countries we were very poor. The furniture in our first apartment (just mattress, no beds) such as chairs and tables came from a motel that my father’s friend owned. We could not afford a vacuum so my mother used a dust brush / pan to clean the carpet. My father ended up working at a gas station making minimum wage, furthering the stereotype but he did put food on the table. He said a man’s first responsibility to his family was to put food on the table that was bought and paid through an honest living and an honest day’s hard work.

Friends and neighbors tried to convince my father to get government assistance in the form of unemployment checks or food stamps. To this day he tells me, that as long as a man has his hands and breath in his chest he must earn his living. Every time someone would try and convince him to take government assistance he would always tell them that we had enough and there might be those that are not doing as well as we are.

He went from drawing blueprints and managing teams of construction workers to running a cash register and cleaning the bathrooms on the night shift. Getting a second job was out of the question, because if his kids grew up without a father’s presence in their lives what would be the point of the extra cash?

We were here to get a quality education and grow up to achieve great things in life. That is what he told us when we told him we missed grandma. He did what he could to distract our young minds; toys aren’t cheap especially if you break them often. But he did what he could, despite the government skimming off the top.

Fast forward about 15 years, I started working as a computer programmer right out of high school and at 19 moved out to the suburbs with the family and bought a two story house, that my mother who’s never lived in a “house”, refers to as her dream home that she’s been dreaming of since she got married.

Thank God we live in a country where people can live their dreams. Their American Dreams. Thank God, we live in a country of bountiful opportunities where a person’s hard work is valued more than the color of his skin, his origins, and his creed.

Family and friends think I’ve accomplished a lot at a young age. Looking back at my parent’s life, I can confidently say, I have accomplished nothing, save for understanding some of my father’s teachings and by the Grace of God for putting me in a land where I can give my parents something back for all they’ve sacrificed for us.

My father and I support Ron Paul because we believe he can restore America to the beacon of freedom and peace that it has long been known for. We believe in Dr.Paul’s message of dismantling the welfare/warfare state while simultaneously getting rid of the IRS will solve so many of the problems that the Nation faces today. We believe that his message once it has finished resonating across the lands, will give America back to her true self.

It will be restored to the days when men worked hard from dawn till dusk doing whatever they needed to make an honest day’s pay, forsaking handouts, to feed their families. Where a man’s hard work, his blood and sweat, and his honesty is all that is needed to live the dream.

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