Posted on 08/06/2010 1:43:56 PM PDT by An American!
46 Years ago - Choices have been made for the last 46 years and look where we are...had we listened to him then how different things might be. Is it too late? You Choose!
"But I have an uncomfortable feeling that this prosperity isn't something on which we can base our hopes for the future. No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. Today, 37 cents out of every dollar earned in this country is the tax collector's share, and yet our government continues to spend 17 million dollars a day more than the government takes in. We haven't balanced our budget 28 out of the last 34 years."
"You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down: [up] man's old -- old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism."
"Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, "We don't know how lucky we are." And the Cuban stopped and said, "How lucky you are? I had someplace to escape to." And in that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth."
"Each year the need grows greater; the program grows greater. We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well that was probably true. They were all on a diet. But now we're told that 9.3 million families in this country are poverty-stricken on the basis of earning less than 3,000 dollars a year. Welfare spending [is] 10 times greater than in the dark depths of the Depression. We're spending 45 billion dollars on welfare. Now do a little arithmetic, and you'll find that if we divided the 45 billion dollars up equally among those 9 million poor families, we'd be able to give each family 4,600 dollars a year. And this added to their present income should eliminate poverty. Direct aid to the poor, however, is only running only about 600 dollars per family. It would seem that someplace there must be some overhead."
READ IT HERE: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ronaldreaganatimeforchoosing.htm
WATCH IT DELIVERED WITHOUT TELEPROMPTER HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY
Oh and my favorite line: "Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."--Ronald Reagan
I miss Ronald Reagan!!! I could not wait to vote for him when I turned 18!! I’ve been a Reagan Conservative ever since.
A true inspiration!!
I will never get tired of listening to this speech as well as any of the great mans words. I wish to Almighty God that we could have him back.
Maybe God will bless us again in 2012.
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