Joe Scarborough: “I am excited to be a part of what I believe is the second American Revolution, because this year I truly believe that…”

“I am excited to be a part of what I believe is the second American Revolution, because this year I truly believe that the American hour is upon us. It is time for this country and this Congress to decide once and for all which direction we are going to turn. Are we going to continue down the same failed path of LBJ and FDR, where we turn to bigger and bigger government to answer every question? Or are we instead going to turn back to those simple, basic values that our Founding Fathers laid at the foundation of this great country, values like family and faith and hard work and personal responsibility? Thomas Jefferson wrote that the government that governs least governs best. James Madison said: 'We have staked the entire future of the American civilization not upon the power of government, but upon the capacity of each of us to govern ourselves, control ourselves, and sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.' But Washington has ignored these values for too long. Because of it, we find ourselves $4 trillion in debt in a country where we have, as the Speaker has pointed out, 12-year-olds that are having babies and 15-year-olds that are shooting each other and 18-year-olds that are graduating from high schools with diplomas they cannot even read.”