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A Wise Latino Woman

 

Judge Sonya Sotomayor was confirmed as our newest Supreme Court Justice by the U.S. Senate mostly on the basis of being "a wise Latino woman."   I am also a Wise Latino Woman.  My story is much more compelling than Sotomayor’s story.  One evening on October of 1960, my home in Havana, Cuba,
was invaded by seven heavily armed military miliatiamen looking for my sister's boyfriend.  The commander of this group of thugs was a large, bold Black man named Crespulo.  He entered my bedroom after midnight pointing a machine gun and ordering me out of bed.  My sister was then interrogated until dawn.

 
After three months of harrassment of our family and finding a refuge for my sister, my parents made the heartwrenching decision of sending both of us away.  My sister left Cuba via the Honduras embassy because Castro thugs wanted to put her in jail at age twenty for the single reason of opposing communism
as a University student.

 

I had to leave my country, my family, my friends, my school, my culture, and everything else behind at age fifteen, not to ever go back. 

 

The last time I saw my father was when I said goodbye to him as he was getting ready to go to work.  Eight years later, he died in Spain after vascular surgery because he was too depressed to overcome the procedure.   My father had emigrated from Spain with nothing but his will to work hard and provide for his family.
Castro had taken everything he had worked for away from him.  He had written me a letter telling me that he would rather die than not be able to see us again.

 

It was also eight years before my mother and the rest of the family were able to come to the United States.  I left Cuba via the Pedro Pan Children’s program----alone with $5 and a suitcase.  That was January 25, 1961.  Along the path I worked as a clerk at an electric company; I lived alone in the middle of an orange grove deserted area in Florida; somehow I obtained a scholarship and grant to attend college in Kansas.  I graduated cum laude with a major in Chemistry and minors in Physics and Mathematics.  Then I continued my studies in Chemistry, obtaining a Ph.D. degree at the University of Illinois (Champaign/Urbana campus) in 1974.  I taught at several institutions, including obtaining tenure and promotion to
associate professor of Chemistry at Mundelein College in Chicago.  Unfortunately, "progressive Chicago" never recognized my “wise Latino woman” story; instead, I was among several professors terminated when Loyola University took over the institution after promising to respect tenure, as this was a
merger. 

 

These "Chicago Progressives" did not care about my “Wise Latino Woman” background; I just did not fit into their interpretation.  Americans of Cuban descent tend to be conservative and vote Republican.  We have seen the future that Obama wants for this Country, and we say NO.  This time I am not leaving; I am staying to fight for my rights, my human dignity, and my freedom.

 

Elvira F. Hasty, Ph.D.

 

 

 

America Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don’t Let Freedom Slip Away

 

By: Kitty Werthmann

 

 

What I am about to tell you is something you’ve probably never heard or will ever read in history books. 
I believe that I am an eyewitness to history.  I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history.  We elected him by a landslide – 98% of the vote.  I’ve never read that in any American publications.  Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force.

 

In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression.  Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed.  We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates.

 

Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily.  Young people were going from house to house begging for food.  Not that they didn’t want to work; there simply weren’t any jobs.  My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need.  Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people – about 30 daily.  Read more>>>

 

 

 

 THE CHANGE WE DID NOT NEED IN OUR COUNTRY

 

 

 

 

Elvira F. Hasty, Ph.D.

 

 

The Perspective Of A Russian Immigrant


By SVETLANA KUNIN, September 04, 2009 

 

In the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, I was taught to believe individual pursuits are selfish and sacrificing for the collective good is noble.

In kindergarten we sang songs about Lenin, the leader of the Socialist Revolution. In school we learned about the beautiful socialist system, where everybody is equal and everything is fair; about ugly capitalism, where people are exploited and treat each other like wolves in the wilderness.

Life in the USSR modeled the socialist ideal. God-based religion was suppressed and replaced with cultlike adoration for political figures.

The government-assigned salary of the proletariat (blue-collar worker) was 30%-50% higher then any professional. Without incentive to improve their life, professionals drank themselves to oblivion. They — engineers, lawyers, doctors, teachers — earned a government-determined salary that barely covered the necessities, mainly food.

 

Raising children was a hardship. It took four to six adults (parents and grandparents) to support a child. The usual size of the postwar family was one or two children. Every woman had the right to have an abortion and most of them did, often without anesthesia.

 

There is a comparative historical reality that plays out the consequences of two competing ideologies: life in the USSR and in America. When the march to the worker's paradise — the Socialist Revolution — began in 1917, many people emigrated from Russia to the U.S.

 

In the USSR, economic equality was achieved by redistributing wealth, ensuring that everyone remained poor, with the exception of those doing the redistributing. Only the ruling class of communist leaders had access to special stores, medicine and accommodations that could compare to those in the West.

 

The rest of the citizenry had to deal with permanent shortages of food and other necessities, and had access to free but inferior, unsanitary and low-tech medical care. The egalitarian utopia of equality, achieved by the sacrifice of individual self-interest for the collective good, led to corruption, black markets, anger and envy.

 

Government-controlled health care destroyed human dignity.

Chairman Nikita Khrushchev released facts about Stalin and his purges. People learned of the horrific purge of more than 20 million citizens, murdered as enemies of the state.

 

Those who left Russia found a different set of values in America: freedom of religion, speech, individual pursuits, the right to private property and free enterprise. The majority of those immigrants achieved a better life for themselves and their children in this capitalist land.

 

These opportunities let the average immigrant live a better life than many elites in the Soviet Communist Party. The freedom to pursue personal self-interest led to prosperity. Prosperity generated charity, benefiting the collective good.

 

The descendants of those immigrants are now supporting policies that move America away from the values that gave so many immigrants the chance of a better life. Policies such as nationalized medicine, high tax rates and government intrusion into free enterprise are being sold to us under the socialistic motto of collective salvation.

 

Socialism has bankrupted and failed every society, while capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than any other system.

 

There is no perfect society. There are no perfect people. Critics say that greed is the driving force of capitalism. My answer is that envy is the driving force of socialism. Change to socialism is not an improvement on the imperfections of the current system.

 

The slogans of "fairness and equality" sound better than the slogans of capitalism. But unlike at the beginning of the 20th century, when these slogans and ideas were yet to be tested, we have accumulated history and reality.

Today we can define the better system not by slogans, but by looking at the accumulated facts. We can compare which ideology leads to the most oppression and which brings the most opportunity.

 

When I came to America in 1980 and experienced life in this country, I thought it was fortunate that those living in the USSR did not know how unfortunate they were.

 

Now in 2009, I realize how unfortunate it is that many Americans do not understand how fortunate they are. They vote to give government more and more power without understanding the consequences.

 

Svetlana Kunin, Stamford, Conn.

 

Editor's note: Mrs. Kunin, an IBD subscriber, is a retired software developer. In the Soviet Union, she was a civil engineer.

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All this ,makes me wonder outloud as we go through the 'changing' of America as we know it are the Cubans, Venezuelans, Russians and Africans the only ones that are going to put up a fight? Really? How ironic......then again is really our fight?

We already tasted communism we know what it's all about, Americans have never lived under communism and maybe we should all back off and let them try it at least once!.....