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Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America �s true living
legends --- a former P  & G executive, an acclaimed author,
a dynamic teacher, and one of the  world's most highly rated
speakers. It was he who changed the way America does business
by creating an audacious concept that came to be known as
"Partnering."

You may remember a previous letter he wrote in 2009 to Obama
and the New York Times, which went viral.

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From a speech given by Lou Pritchett April 15,  2012

"I was born in year two of the Great  Depression (1931) and
spent the first 10 years of my life influenced by the extreme
hardships of the depression.  By today�s standards my family
was about a mile below today�s so called �poverty level,' but
if you never �had� - doing without was not so �bad�.

Borrowing shoes to graduate from the 8th grade didn't seem
at all demeaning because most of the 8th graders did the same
thing.

In June 1944, my only brother, Joe, was killed in action on
Utah Beach in Normandy, France during the D-Day landings.
Exactly one year later, my father died and left me, my mother,
and my sister to go it alone - and alone we went. My mother
went to work at a department store, my sister dropped out of
school and joined her, and I went to work shining shoes on the
streets of Memphis for a dime a shine. Government assistance
was not available, and if it were, I am confident my mother
would have refused it, because she never wanted the government
involved in our lives.

I mention this bit of personal history to help you understand
that millions of Americans, including your parents and grand-
parents, grew up like me during the Great Depression and never
expected nor wanted the government to offer them anything other
than an opportunity - and now to see what Obama is trying to
do to our country tends to make you crazy.

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As some of you know, my "Scare Me" letter went viral with
millions of hits on the internet during the past 3 years.
I have written a follow-up letter, which I will now share
with you.

To the editors:

"In April 2009, I sent President Obama and the New York Times
a letter titled "You Scare Me" because, as a candidate, he
promised to "fundamentally  transform America."  Now, after
observing his performance for over three years, he no longer
scares me - he terrifies me, for the following reasons:

FIRST:  He has done more to damage America's standing in
the world, to lower the standard of living in America, to
impoverish future generations, and to shake our faith in the
country's future than any other American president in history.

SECOND:  With a compliant Democrat congress, a lapdog media,
and a weak, almost nonexistent Republican opposition, he has
shattered the American dream of job security, home ownership,
and rugged individualism for millions of Americans and has
poisoned and divided our civil society with his politics of
envy, class warfare, race warfare, and religious warfare -
which he is using as fundamental building blocks for his
socialist agenda.

THIRD:  Culturally, he remains totally out of touch with
traditional American values. This has absolutely nothing
to do with race or where he was born, rather it has every-
thing to do with where, how and with whom he was raised,
schooled, educated, trained, and associates with - still
today.

FOURTH:  He has surrounded himself with naive academicians,
lawyers, politicians, bureaucrats, and socialist-leaning czars
who arrogantly think and behave exactly as he does. People who
offer no balanced suggestions, or devil�s advocate positions,
and think in lock step with him that big government is the
answer to all our problems.

FIFTH:  He not only encourages, but aids and abets the
unionization of all American industry, the albatross around
the neck of the free market. In turn, they provide the money
and muscle to intimidate his opponents.

SIXTH:  He has increased the national debt by over 30% in
just three years.  If he is re-elected, and this rate of
increase continues, America will be burdened with an
unsustainable 20 trillion dollar debt which will result in
the country's financial death. Recovery will be impossible -
America will be the Greece of 2016.

SEVENTH:  Given his fanatical beholding to the 'environmental'
and 'man-caused global warming' fringe, he has deliberately
discouraged U.S. fossil fuel exploration and production, while
wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on solar, wind, and algae
experiments. He refuses to accept that oil, gas, and coal are not
America�s enemies, they are America�s assets - - which, properly
managed, could make us energy independent within a generation.

EIGHTH:  He views the U.S. as a power in retreat which abused
its World dominance. Therefore, he systematically apologizes round
the world. This past March, he whispered to Russian President
Medvedev, "This is my last election. After my election, I will
have more flexibility."  Just what is the secret that Obama and
Putin are concealing from the American people until after the
election? With which other leaders has he made similar secret
agreements?

NINTH:  And finally, after all his mis-steps, bad decision-
making, poor management, and zero leadership, the fact that he
has the audacity to seek re-election should terrify every American.
I predict that if he is re-elected, future historians and political
interpreters will look back at the eight-year period of 2008-2016,
and conclude "the 44th President of the U.S. allowed the takers
to overpower the makers, which resulted in the greatest economy in
history vanishing from the face of the Earth. Farewell America,
the World will really miss you!"

Lou  Pritchett April 15, 2012

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It is my hope and prayer that this letter will also go viral and
serve as a 'wake up' call to Americans of all political leanings,
convincing them that never before in U.S. history has so much
depended on Americans understanding that we are facing one of the
greatest crises in U.S. history, convincing them that this election
will be won not by letters to the editor, political speeches, or
radio and TV sound bites.

No! It will be won by those with a conviction, with a belief,
and with a willingness to pay the price in helping put the most
enlightened voters in the polling booth on November 6.

Let me end on my favorite quote - which I think is very
appropriate for each of us today:

"TO EVERY MAN, THERE COMES IN HIS LIFETIME, THAT SPECIAL
MOMENT, WHEN HE IS PHYSICALLY TAPPED ON THE SHOULDER AND
OFFERED THE CHANCE TO DO A VERY SPECIAL THING, UNIQUE TO
HIM AND FITTED TO HIS TALENT; WHAT A TRAGEDY IF THAT
MOMENT FINDS HIM UNPREPARED OR UNQUALIFIED FOR THE WORK
WHICH WOULD BE HIS FINEST HOUR."

Those words, spoken by Winston Churchill over 70 years ago,
are very appropriate for all Americans today.

For, if each of us is prepared and is qualified, then 6
November 2012 just might be our, and our Nation's, finest
hour as we reclaim this "shining city on the hill" from the
ravages of Obama's socialism.

IT IS NOW OR NEVER, FELLOW PATRIOTS!  GOD HELP US IF WE FAIL!
"The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear." - Emerson, 1833

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