And we come to the end of the speakers at the CNHT Annual Picnic (“Old Home Day for Conservatives!”). Fittingly enough (although he spoke early in the agenda), we have the Speaker of the NH House of Representatives, Bill O’Brien:
The speech transcript:
Coalition of NH Taxpayers – July 7, 2012
“Will we continue to bring government back to essential purpose of protecting freedoms and not assuming that it must find a solution to every problem, real or imagined?“
In concluding his 3rd State of the Union Speech almost 30 years ago, Ronald Reagan left us a guide for the never-ending battle for freedom. He said,
Let us be sure that those who come after will say . . . that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
The Great Communicator also warned us that,
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
In our time – this legislative term in New Hampshire in Concord – there are those among us who did everything we could.
- We cut state-funded spending by 18% because the over-spenders had left us almost a $900 million deficit.
