Tell reporters that the GOP is refusing to negotiate. Like they did on Obamacare?.
Radical!? What’s radical is spending the country into oblivion. What’s radical is a gargantuan leviathan of a government that looks to control every aspect of our lives. What’s radical is a government that has it’s hands in our pockets. What-s radical is spending 3 1/2 trillion dollars. What’s radical is a 1 1/2 trillion dollar deficit. What’s radical is taxpayers being forced to fund the murder of the unborn.
Feel free to add on.
Question is if Obama can get away with this demagogy when unemployment is back up over 400k a week and gas prices may not stop rising when 4.00 a gallon is hit this month.
If these crickets would pipe down, we could hear the Republican response.
Are there examples in American history where the general welfare of the society benefitted by applying the principles of so-called "government" control?
A reading of Governor Bradford's diary of the experience of the Jamestown Colony might be instructive here.
America's Founders preferred liberty for individuals, and their principles made America a desired destination for millions for over 200 years.
"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] 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 debts 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 callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39
"Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread." --Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821. ME 1:122
"I deem [this one of] the essential principles of our government and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration:... The honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801. ME 3:322
"I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23
"[With the decline of society] begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia [war of all against all], which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:40
Put the "redistribute-the-wealth" philosophy of Obama up against the philosophy of individual, Creator-endowed liberty expressed by Jefferson, and then talk about who's "radical" or "extreme."
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry when I read stuff like this. What is radical about a plan that gradually reduces the deficit over 10 years? What is radical about KEEPING federal taxes at their historic level of approximately 18% of the economy? The answer, of course, is that there is absolutely nothing radical about it at all. Its sober and may not go far enough. Its only “radical” in the same way that its radical for a heroin junkie to stop spending all their time trying to score a fix and to try to get off drugs.
I can’t put into words how much I despise this anal aperture.