See my tag line.
Posted on 10/22/2009 9:07:21 PM PDT by mainstreetradical.com
While exiting the Constitutional Convention, Ben Franklin was asked by a bystander, “What have you given us, a republic or a monarchy?” His answer: “A republic, madam, if you can keep it.” This year the celebration of America’s independence comes at a time when we are in danger of failing to keep that Republic.
The continued troubles of auto makers, insurers, and banks in the wake of bailouts shows that throwing money at noncompetitive companies, choked with bad debt and overburdened by labor contracts, is not the answer. What our leaders have done, in the guise of economic stewardship, is akin to a friend asking you to dinner, inviting 20 strangers, and then stealing your wallet to pay the bill. On tax day Americans protested the bailouts, the stimulus, and the budget. It is easy to feel that something big was accomplished by Tea Party revelers on April 15th, and it was. But something big is not always something lasting. Average Americans can not slip back into silence. Our leaders did not get the message. The spending continues unchecked, but more egregious are the actions of the Administration in scrapping the principles that have made this country great.
The media would have us believe that the Democrats simply won the November election and are just putting the country on a new “friendlier”, “fairer” path. This is not the case. The “Change” is not a change in ideology from Republican to Democrat; it is a change in our very form of government—we are losing our Republic.
http://mainstreetradical.com/2009/05/14/do-we-keep-our-republic-or-just-let-it-slip-away/
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It’s already slipped away...this is no longer close to the representative Republic we started with...
I agree, the only restoration will involve bloodshed.
i honestly dont know....i dont think any of what our government is doing has anything to do with housing markets, mortgages, or healthcare....i think its all corprate stuff and one world order...people dong count
can anyone tell me how a presidents tsarr dictates and enforces policy....by what legal right does this happen?
And also see my tagline. We already lost the republic, much in the same way the Roman Republic traces its last day to when Caesar crossed the Rubicon.
See post eight
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