followup on the SOSP->from 200+ years ago our Founders speak to each one of us, here, now

[melvin_udall]

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

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[patriotress]

"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."

Excellent post - All of it! I am just gonna link to it. Have you considered running for office yourself? =D

[prader]

He'd never get elected.

[melvin_udall]

Thank you kindly.

I am unelectable.

Trust me.

[patriotress]

No, you aren't wishy-washy enough. You'd lose, but you'd have many fans (and enemies too of course). :/

[prader]

And it's a damned shame too.

(Hell, even I am unelectable.)

[melvin_udall]

You? You'd be fine unless there's something I don't know.

[prader]

I'm a Classical Liberal. There's no way in hell the overwhelming majority of voters would vote for me if they had even an inkling of how I'd represent them.

Wait a minute...

[melvin_udall]

Well, what we really need is good, articulate, intelligent people who can remind them what a classical Liberal is.