I bid Communism. We are in a battle of Americanism vs Communism. The sooner the White House is back in American hands the better.
I think we can all agree with the fact that Obowmao sucks.
Ho hum.
Funny how Bawney was silenced after that statement. He'll emerge victorious if it gets implemented though.
I wish it was only Obamacare that was Socialist. The last year of Bush’s presidency was Socialism. Now we have it on steroids with Obama. The country is moving toward state control very quickly.
No, Mr. President, is good for everybody is liberty and opportunity to acquire wealth by honest, hard work. That's the premise underlying the economic dimension of liberty envisioned by the Framers of our Constitution, and it's what brought America from a wilderness people using crude axes and hoes to a great and generous nation feeding hungry people and sheltering oppressed people for over 200 years.
This essay excerpt from "Our Ageless Constitution," addresses the philosophy of our Constitution:
Tired of having the fruits of their labors confiscated by an overpowering British government, America's Founders declared themselves free and independent.
Most American schoolchildren can recite their claim that ". all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights ... to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Less familiar, however, are these lines from their Declaration of Independence:
"He ( King George III ) has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance .... He has combined with others to subject us, ... imposing taxes on us without our consent."
What, then, did the Founders consider to be the real cornerstone of man's liberty and happiness? On what basic premise did they devise their Constitution? Let them speak for themselves:
| John Adams |
"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God ... anarchy and tyranny commence. PROPERTY MUST BE SECURED OR LIBERTY CANNOT EXIST"
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| James Madison |
"Government is instituted to protect property of every sort .... This being the end of government, that is NOT a just government,... nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has ... is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest." |
Their guiding principle was that people come together to form governments in order to SECURE their rights to property - not to create an entity which wilt, itself, "take from the mouths of labor the bread it has earned." What was wrong for individual citizens to do to one another, they believed, was equally wrong for government to do to them.
The right to own property and to keep the rewards of individual labor opened the floodgates of progress for the benefit of the entire human race. Millions have fled other countries to participate in the Miracle of America.
Footnote: Our Ageless Constitution, W. David Stedman & La Vaughn G. Lewis, Editors (Asheboro, NC, W. David Stedman Associates, 1987) Part III: ISBN 0-937047-01-5
Republicans should harp on the fact that Democrats themselves have said people shouldn’t worry too much about any minutiae in the current bill, since the real details will have to be hashed out after it passes. While Democrats generally lie, I think Republicans should take them at their word on this point: they intend to implement something other than what they pass. Republicans should start calling this the “bait and switch” bill, regardless of any changes the Democrats make.