Posted on 11/09/2009 11:20:01 AM PST by honestabe010
Washington rejected royalty; Lincoln was a backwoods lawyer; any American stood up and looked foreign royalty in the eye because an American was as good as anybody. Our aristocrats paid for their privileges and lost them when the money ran out. Getting ahead wasn’t easy but your gains were yours and nobody interfered with what you did. We lived with opportunity that pulled people from everywhere. Our watchwords per Alexis de Toqueville (Democracy in America) were equality and liberty.
Government paid less than industry but was secure, you didn’t work as hard and benefits were better. Smart politicians assumed public humility, avoiding ostentation as befit democrats who weren’t royalty. The public face of government was: a servant of the people.
April 2nd, 2009 our President who likes to bow low before Arab kings, attended a G-20 one-day economic meeting in London with: 500 staff, including 200 Secret Service, 6 doctors, the White House chef and his staff with food and water, 35 vehicles, 4 speechwriters and 12 teleprompters, Air Force One, Marine One (a large helicopter) and a fleet of look-alike decoy helicopters as reported by Scripps-Howard. Not cheap and not too humble a day’s work.
May 30th, our First Couple flew to New York City for dinner and a show, a “private” event leaked in advance exclusively to the NY Daily News. They, the press and White House staff needed 3 planes. A Presidential motorcade took them to the cordoned-off restaurant and the cordoned-off theater where the show started 45 minutes late; a cancelled harbor ferry stranded commuters for two hours while streets closed for the motorcade. Reports said military and secret service groups flew in earlier wih vehicles to set up, plan security etc. The Daily Mirror (UK) estimated the cost at a humble $1 million...
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Yes, our pResident and his wife are certainly “low-rent”.
Yes, our pResident and his wife are certainly “low-rent”.
The people who need the least government are the best people, and people who don’t need Pelosicrats and Obamao are the best people of all. We can have a Constitutional Republic and liberty, or we can have big government, but we can’t have both. Stop accepting the big government lie.
I’m having a platitudinous moment.
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