followup on the SOSP->from 200+ years ago our Founders speak to each one of us, here, now
Thomas Jefferson warns us about our current representatives.
"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude.
If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds... [we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account
but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers...
And this is the tendency of all human governments.
A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for [another ]... till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery...
And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt.
Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression."
Jefferson told us how the modern day totalitarian (The Democrat, the socialist, the "Liberal", the "progressive", whatever name they hide behind now) would destroy us from within. He is describing precisely what Obama, Frank, Reid, Pelosi and the others are deliberately doing, and why.
If looked at objectively the writings of the "Progressive" movement list the above as their goals, just put into more palatable words.
Benjamin Franklin similarly warned us, including quite specifically about the "stimulus" package.
"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
John Adams spoke about this project as well. "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."
The modern Liberal, the Democrat, pretends to hold this dear. Sadly in reality they only do so with matters of the genitals and religion. In all other ways they cry out for government to take care of everyone, something our Founders knew could not happen without falling into tyranny. Not would not. Could not. It is an impossibility due to the nature of man.
Mr. Adams also described the modern Democrat Party and cautioned against their tactics. "Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
Samuel Adams spoke to the 52% of the population that voted for Obama, especially those who still support him after this godawful year of incompetence, broken promises and corruption. "Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual--or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country."
Samuel Adams speaks again, directly to those who would mock or ignore my post on the Secretary of State Project, as well as to those who don't question the all but nonexistent history of our current President. "Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust be men of unexceptionable characters. The public cannot be too curious concerning the character of public men."
Mr. Jefferson again.
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure."
On a side note, the mind boggles as to how someone could be so blindly fanatical or dimwitted as to be able to read that quote then pretend the 2nd Amendment speaks to something other than the individual's personal right.
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - John Adams
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. - John Adams
I know there are a great many more. The Founding Fathers tried their best to warn us of what we were going to do, right here, right now, today. They reached ahead 200 years and told us of the dangers we face right now. Because of this the modern Left (The Democrat, the "Progressive", the "Liberal", the socialist) have done everything they can to make "we the people" forget or resent our Founders and what they had to say. It is no accident a common theme among the modern Liberal involves disdain for our Founders.
George Washington said the most by making a choice not to do something. King George III, upon hearing that George Washington would return to his home when he could become King of America without a shot fired, "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world." Indeed. Ask yourself if the people you're voting for today would ever make the same decision.
"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude.
If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds... [we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account
but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers...
And this is the tendency of all human governments.
A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for [another ]... till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery...
And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt.
Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression."
Jefferson told us how the modern day totalitarian (The Democrat, the socialist, the "Liberal", the "progressive", whatever name they hide behind now) would destroy us from within. He is describing precisely what Obama, Frank, Reid, Pelosi and the others are deliberately doing, and why.
If looked at objectively the writings of the "Progressive" movement list the above as their goals, just put into more palatable words.
Benjamin Franklin similarly warned us, including quite specifically about the "stimulus" package.
"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
John Adams spoke about this project as well. "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."
The modern Liberal, the Democrat, pretends to hold this dear. Sadly in reality they only do so with matters of the genitals and religion. In all other ways they cry out for government to take care of everyone, something our Founders knew could not happen without falling into tyranny. Not would not. Could not. It is an impossibility due to the nature of man.
Mr. Adams also described the modern Democrat Party and cautioned against their tactics. "Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
Samuel Adams spoke to the 52% of the population that voted for Obama, especially those who still support him after this godawful year of incompetence, broken promises and corruption. "Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual--or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country."
Samuel Adams speaks again, directly to those who would mock or ignore my post on the Secretary of State Project, as well as to those who don't question the all but nonexistent history of our current President. "Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust be men of unexceptionable characters. The public cannot be too curious concerning the character of public men."
Mr. Jefferson again.
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure."
On a side note, the mind boggles as to how someone could be so blindly fanatical or dimwitted as to be able to read that quote then pretend the 2nd Amendment speaks to something other than the individual's personal right.
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - John Adams
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. - John Adams
I know there are a great many more. The Founding Fathers tried their best to warn us of what we were going to do, right here, right now, today. They reached ahead 200 years and told us of the dangers we face right now. Because of this the modern Left (The Democrat, the "Progressive", the "Liberal", the socialist) have done everything they can to make "we the people" forget or resent our Founders and what they had to say. It is no accident a common theme among the modern Liberal involves disdain for our Founders.
George Washington said the most by making a choice not to do something. King George III, upon hearing that George Washington would return to his home when he could become King of America without a shot fired, "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world." Indeed. Ask yourself if the people you're voting for today would ever make the same decision.