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Above Image From Article in Epoch Times: “Why Family Dinners Are Important”:
Excerpts from Seth Grossman weekly interview on John DeMasi program “Talk with a Purpose” on WPGTalkRadio com, 95.5FM and 1450AM near Atlantic City, NJ:
SETH GROSSMAN: I’m calling from West Palm Beach, Florida, this morning. I’m down with one of my daughters, my son-in-law, and two grandkids. So, I’m a little bit removed from the news today.
TRIBUTE TO WILLARD “BILL” LABARRE, CO-FOUNDER OF CHELSEA NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION IN 1975:
But first, I want to pay tribute to Bill Labarre. He died last December, but they’re going to have a tribute for him tomorrow (Sunday, March 29) at the at the Log Cabin in Margate. He was one of the five founders of the Chelsea Neighborhood Association in Atlantic City in 1975. The others included Jimmy Masland, Annette Malley, the wife of Dr. Stuart Malley, me, and one other. There were five of us. The lessons I learned from that Chelsea Neighborhood Association inspired me to start Liberty and Prosperity years later.
Everything I did with the Chelsea Neighborhood Association and Liberty and Prosperity was about making America great again. And one of the first things I learned is that to make America great again, we can’t depend on the government. We can’t depend on politics. We can’t depend on one man like President Trump.
A whole lot of people need to do a whole lot of things that most Americans used to do, that we are no longer doing today. All those people doing all those things before made America great. And we all have to start doing those things again to make America great again.
MAKING AMERICA GREAT BEGINS WITH FAMILIES, FAMILY DINNERS, AND HOLIDAYS LIKE EASTER AND PASSOVER.
I see that very clearly being with my daughter, my son-in-law, and their kids, my grandkids. The most important thing we need in America today is for young people to get married and have children and raise families. And one of the best ways to raise families and to create good and strong Americans is for Mom and Dad and the kids to have dinner together at least four or five nights a week. Those dinners together are more important than almost everything else. They should begin with a blessing over the bread or grace for the meal. There should be no distractions. No cell phones, no TV, no toys at the table.
Everybody sitting down and facing each other. Talking to each other. Listening to each other. Exchanging ideas. Asking questions. What did you do today. Here’s what I did today. What do you want to do tomorrow. Little everyday conversation.
You really appreciate the importance of this when you are part of it. You see how these simple family dinners at the end of the day teach manners, respect, letting somebody else speak first, while you are listening. then you talk when it is your turn.
This is not at all easy. It takes discipline. It takes practice. It takes patience. The kids often don’t want to do this. They want to run out. They want to play a game or watch a video on a cell phone. They want to do a zillion things. But parents have to set the rules. There will be anger, frustration, arguments, and meltdowns. But after a while, it becomes a very pleasant experience.
I would say having dinners with my daughter’s family and her children impressed me more than a whole lot of political stuff I’ve been doing and seeing on TV during the past few months.
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JOHN DEMASI: You know, you make a good point. How many times and I see it with my niece and my grandson. How many times, you know, you sit at the table, he’s on his phone, the TV’s on, and the husband’s upstairs doing something. And she’s calling everybody, come on to dinner. You know, it’s it’s really it’s hard. You’re absolutely right. It’s hard to do. It’s hard to accomplish because there are too many distractions.
SETH GROSSMAN: Yes, it is hard to do. But it’s important. And you usually need both parents who know how important it is to do it. We Boomers spend so much of our time saying, well, the President ought to do this, or the government ought to do that, or Congress needs to do this. But we can’t get Mom, Dad and the kids to sit together at the same table, for one a forty-five-minute period every day for maybe four or five days a week to teach kids what it’s like to live in a civilized society.
So, I got a lot of insight, and I really have a lot of admiration for my daughter and son-in-law for doing this. It’s not easy. They both work. They both have to juggle their schedules to do this. But it’s important to them. And I’m glad it is. I want to recognize and commend all the families that do that.
Las week, I criticized the CRDA, the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, for giving $96,000 to the Atlanta County Queer Alliance. Before that, I criticized the Ocean City Public Schools for teaching third and fourth graders three or four different ways to have sex to have.
We need our tax dollars and our schools to be teaching our kids and our young people the importance of getting married and traditional lifestyles. Now, if somebody wants an alternative lifestyle, they have the constitutional and moral right to be free to do what they want. However, we should not be using our schools and public resources and tax dollars to encourage alternative lifestyles. We’ve got to worry about the future. And America’s future depends on families, and men and women getting married and having kids and forming families. Because without parents and kids and families we have no country.
If Americans don’t have children, our future will depend on bringing in immigrants to have children. Many of them have different cultures that hate everything good about America. If we depend on them, then America has no future. This is important. And the perfect time to think about things like this is during holidays like the ones coming up.
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ONLY IN AMERICA: THE JOY OF SHARING EASTER AND PASSOVER.
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Tomorrow is Palm Sunday. The Jewish Passover Seder is Wednesday night. Both of these holidays are linked in many ways. Jewish Passover almost always begins on the night of the first full moon after March 21, the first day of spring. Easter always takes place on the first Sunday after the first full moon in spring. Both holidays have many common traditions.
Above Image: Easter Sunrise Service on Steel Pier in Atlantic City (1948).
One of the things that frankly disappointed me, is that my Jewish grandkids know absolutely nothing about Easter. They both go to public schools here in Florida. They never heard of Peter Cottontail or the Bunny Trail, the Easter Bunny, or Easter.
I remember learning all about Easter as a Jewish kid going to a public elementary school in the 1950s and 1960s. For a month before Easter, we had to eat Quaker Oats oatmeal for breakfast. Why Quaker Oats? Because it came in a round cardboard container shaped like a barrel or a cylinder. When the box was empty, we took it to school and they cut it in half. Then we’d turn it into an Easter basket with some construction paper.
And of course we also ate a lot of scrambled eggs that month. My mom had to put a tiny hole in each egg to get the inside out. Then we took the empty eggshells to school so our teacher could dye them many different colors so they would be Easter eggs for our basket.
And all of us, Jewish and Christian kids all learned about Easter and sang Easter songs. It was a very pleasant thing. And, of course, on Passover, we would bring our matzah into school for lunch. We didn’t impose it on anybody else, but we learned each other’s traditions and how much we had in common, and all of it was good.
And there is another Easter memory I had as a child. My grandmother, came from the old country in Eastern Europe. She lived in a town called Kishinev in the province of Moldavia in the Russian Empire. On Easter Sunday in 1903, they had a massacre of Jews on Easter Sunday. She and her family survived. But she was always fearful of Easter.
But then she came to America and raised her children here including my mother. Then my mom and dad moved to Atlantic City. And my grandmother came down to be with us every Passover for the Seder. And of course, Easter Sunday was usually right after the Passover Seder. And so our whole family would get dressed up in our best outfits and walk on the Atlantic City Boardwalk that Sunday for the Easter Parade.
And I still remember how much joy that gave her. She was so happy and proud to live in this country. She would always say, “Only in America” and people live together and be so happy. Another favorite saying was “God Bless Columbus”.
So when we celebrate these holidays, I think of how much Americans used to have in common, and what a great country we had. So that is why I am so sentimental today. I am enjoying being with my family, especially my grandchildren during the holidays.
Politics and politicians come and go. But families, values, and traditions like enjoying these holidays together built America. If we’re going to make America great again, we have to start, having dinners with our families, we have to turn off the TV and put the silencer on our cell phones and put them away and talk to and listen to our kids. We need learn what they are doing and share with them our memories and knowledge and what we learned from our parents and grandparents.
JOHN DEMASI: You know, you’re taking a different tone today than you normally do, and that’s good. That’s a good thing.
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LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT AMERICA: READ 1676 PROJECT: HOW NEW JERSEY SHAPED AMERICA BY SETH GROSSMAN.
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SETH GROSSMAN: Thank you. And by the way, I finally finished writing that history book I’ve been talking about for the past six months. It’s called the 1676 Project: How New Jersey Shaped America. It has 224 pages. Lots of pictures. Big print. Any adult would find it very readable. Any ninth grader or tenth grader would also find it, readable. You can buy that book right now for $24.95 by going on Amazon and having it delivered. But if you’re patient and you live near Somers Point, in two weeks, that book will be for sale for only $20 at, at any Liberty and Prosperity breakfast, any Saturday morning, 9:30 to 10:30 at Sal’s Cold Fired Pizza. So bring $20, and buy the book.
After April 8, you can also buy the book by appointment at our Liberty and Prosperity office in Somers Point, or in Atlantic City.
Every single fact in that book is absolutely true, undisputed, and fully documented. Our schools and colleges today don’t deny “inconvenient” facts that do not support their “woke” narrative. They simply ignore them and pretend they don’t exist.
They instead teach this fake history of the 1619 Project of the New York Times and the Disney cartoon movie Pocahontas. They falsely claim that everything in America today came from what happened in Virginia in 1619, They falsely claimed that all of our prosperity, our wealth, our comfort, and our values were all built on the violence, conquest, and slavery that was in Virginia in 1619.
My book, the 1619 Project completely refutes all that. It explains and fully documents how America was instead shaped by what Quakers did here in South Jersey in 1676.
Above Image: Last March 25, 123 nations of the United Nations voted for a resolution declaring that the “trans-Atlantic slave trade of Africans” was the “most serious crime against humanity” and that the United States and European nations were obligated to pay “reparations.” 52 nations abstained. Only the United States, Israel and Argentina voted against it. Chapters 12, 36, and 43 of Seth Grossman’s 1676 Project explain in detail why that UN resolution was a ridiculous and dishonest propaganda stunt and money grab. Slavery was normal in almost every society in the world until white Christians in Europe and the United States ended it.
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And I detailed the story of George Fox founding the Quaker movement that was built on “Love your neighbor as yourself” and the Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Basically, they built a society were everybody was treated equally and fairly, and where the government only provided basic services that everybody uses. If it’s not for everybody, then the government doesn’t do it. Private, voluntary associations do it.
Above Image: New Jersey’s failed public schools spend an average of $29,000 per year to educate each student. This makes housing unaffordable in two ways. First, roughly 52% of New Jersey’s high real estate taxes pay for public schools. Second, most towns use their zoning and planning laws to block or limit new housing for families with children. Who can blame them? The owners of a typical $300,000 house pay roughly $9,000 each year in real estate taxes. If two children live in that house, the town spend roughly $50,000 a year just to educate those children!
Above Image: AI Search Made on Microsoft “Copilot” on April 1, 2026
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Those Quaker governments had had almost no taxes. Yet almost all children received a basic education and mastered “the Three R’s.” There were boundless opportunities for everyone to succeed. They respected private property. If Eustace Mita wanted to build a hotel on his own property that he had bought and paid for, he would not have to get all sorts of permits from all sorts of politicians and thousands of people who lived in his town. Those 64 new homes in Egg Harbor Township would have been built, and people would be living in them years ago!
They had guys like James Somers. He got tired of sawing logs by hand to make lumber. He got tired of paying for feed to have oxen walk around in a circle to, to turn a stone wheel to grind grain into, flour. So he built a dam across the Patcong Creek to make a lake. And water pouring over that dam turned two wheels. One of them powered a circular saw so he could cut logs into lumber. That was called a saw mill. Another turned the stone wheel that crushed grain into flour. That was called a grist mill.
And James Somers didn’t have to get permission from all of his neighbors to do that. I mean, obviously, if you flood your neighbor’s property, you have to pay damages or you can’t do that. You can’t, have, obnoxious fumes or smoke ruining your neighbor’s property. That is called a common law nuisance.
But if you own the property and if you don’t bother your neighbor, you should be free to do what you want to do. And they built this wonderful low tax society where people would come over, with nothing but debt. And within ten years, they’d be either middle class or wealthy. And that was the society we had in New Jersey and America for three hundred years.
And by the way, in New Jersey, they, there had been slavery. However, within three generations, the settlers of New Jersey were persuaded by the Quakers to end it.
So we in New Jersey have so much to be proud of . I invite everybody to get that book when it is available. And by the way, I think it’s important for that book to end up in our public libraries, in our historical societies, and in our public schools.
So if anyone wants to work with us in getting that book either for yourself or distributed, go to our website. It’s all all the details are there, libertyandprosperity.com, or go to Amazon. You have a whole description of the book in amazon.com, or, email us at info@libertyandprosperity.com. And we’ll certainly have you on the program here to talk about the book. You know, I I think it’s very important.
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CHAPTER 12 OF SETH GROSSMAN BOOK REFUTES UN RESOLUTION ON SLAVERY.
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And just to to show how important it is and how it affects daily affairs, last, I guess, Wednesday, March 25, the United Nations had a resolution declaring that the Transatlantic slave trade was the gravest crime against humanity and that all member states must consider making apologies and paying reparations to the victim of that horrible crime. And that resolution passed a 123 yes votes. There are only three no votes. The United States, Israel, and Argentina, and 52 other countries abstain. But if you go to chapter 12 of of the, my book, the sixteen seventy six project, it goes into great detail of how you had slavery normal in most of the world. You had the native Americans were making slaves out of people and other tribes. You had African tribes were enslaving each other and certain African tribes sold the slaves that they already captured to Europeans in exchange for guns, ammunition, and other European goods. So, yeah, the Europeans took part in something that was normal in virtually the entire world, but it was the, Europeans led by the English and the Americans who ended slavery, based on you know the Christian principle of, doing to others as you would do into them the golden rule. So I think it’s important to know that and, and that book is very important.
GOVERNOR CHRISTIE AND NJ STATE LAWLESSNESS CREATED ATLANTIC CITY’S $400 MILLION DEBT.
And I guess my my final point is and I know I say this over and over again. Our governor, Mikey Sherrill, said Atlantic City is almost ready to stand on its own two feet and won’t need handouts from state taxes anymore. And and that whole narrative is she is continuing the lie started by Chris Christie. There was nothing wrong with Atlantic City. Atlantic City, in 2008 was hit with a really a depression. And now, the economy was devastated. There was no money coming in. There was an urgent need to cut spending, because all these tax money coming in had been cut. But governor Chris Christie, the Republican, was running for president, and he decided he didn’t want any layoffs. He didn’t want any cutbacks, and he took over Atlantic City and put Atlantic City $400,000,000 into illegal debt. And it’s that debt that illegal debt because state law says every city is supposed to have a balanced budget. Chris Christie, by taking over the state, borrowed money illegally. Atlantic City should have filed for bankruptcy, should have brought all sorts of, legal actions to make the state, pay for that illegal debt. But they took over the city government not to make a man Atlantic City government better, but to prevent that lawsuit from taking place. So Mikey Sherrill is just repeating the lie that Chris Christie, perpetuated for his eight years in office, and I think people ought to know that. Anyway, I I wish I could say more, but I’m out of time. And, here I am in Florida, and the the the pool and the the sunshine is inviting. So I wish, you, John, a a very happy Easter. First, of course, Palm Sunday. Happy Easter. And to all the listeners and all all my Jewish friends, a very happy Passover. And, let’s make America great, and and let us boomers who live through those times teach our children and grandchildren what we did to do that. So thank you very much. Thank you, Seth, and, happy pass over to you and, your members of Liberty and Prosperity. Happy Easter as well. Seth Grossman, Liberty and Prosperity is the organization and the website libertyandprosperity.com. The meeting gets started at 09:30 this morning. Sales, coal fired pizza in Somers Point.
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Seth you always have quite an interesting editorial.
You would have made a great governor for nj.
Unfortunately, the best people to run for office don’t make it because of the corrupt process of money. The system should be: may the best man win. Instead it’s may the best prostitute win