Obama Invokes George Washington to Defend His Proposed Tax Hikes

cnsnews.com ^ | 9-19-11 | Susan Jones

[Justaham]

The 44th president of the United States invoked the very first president on Monday, as Barack Obama called for $1.5 trillion in new taxes, mainly on wealthy Americans.

“George Washington grappled with the problem” of taxes, Obama said. “He (George Washington) said, 'Towards the payment of debts, there must be revenue, and to have revenue, there must be taxes. And no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.'

“But he understood that dealing with the debt is -- his choice of words -- 'always a choice of difficulties.' He also knew that public servants weren't elected to do what is easy; they weren't elected to do what was politically advantageous. It's our responsibility to put country before party. It's our responsibility to do what's right for the future. And that's what this debate is about."

As for Obama’s call to put “country above party,” even liberal media outlets don’t see it that way.

[DarthVader]

Blasphemy.

[ColdOne]

FUBO That seems to be the only comment I am leaving today!

[RexBeach]

Yeah, right. John Adams Blamed Washington for everything.

Ugh.

[dragonblustar]

Ever notice how Obama holds his head up like Mussolini, that raised head looking down at the people? I can’t find any other person in recent history that does the same thing as Obama.....

[wastedyears]

Obama defecates on the legacy and history of our Founding Fathers.

[Drill Thrawl]

Chavez, castro. It’s a marxist dictator thing.

[PDMiller]

Maybe Obama should reread this classic from Washington:

“As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible.”

[Buckeye McFrog]

I live in the heart of Whiskey Rebellion country.
Is Obama threatening to send the Army out after the Tea Party?

[DJ MacWoW]

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." George Washington

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity. Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address.

[dusttoyou]

Having read only a little on El Duce’s background, he and the WON really do seem to have a lot in common. If he keeps it up maybe they’ll have a LOT MORE in common.

[mrsmith]

The oldest trick in American politics LOL!

“...Republicans are borne down by fashion and a fear of being charged with a want of respect to General Washington. If there is treason in the wish I retract it, but would to God this same General Washington were in heaven! We would not then have him brought forward as the constant cover to every unconstitutional and irrepublican act. “
...The first U.S. Senator: “rigid and uncomplying in my temper”
Journal of William Maclay, United States Senator from Pennsylvania, 1789-1791

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Ham-fisted attempt by Obama to throw the Founding Fathers back on the TEA party by cherry-picking Washington quotes.

[DJ MacWoW]

This is Washingtons complete quote:

As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible: avoiding occasions of expence by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expence, but by vigorous exertions in time of Peace to discharge the Debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen which we ourselves ought to bear. The execution of these maxims belongs to your Representatives; but it is necessary that public opinion should cooperate. To facilitate to them the performance of their duty it is essential that you should practically bear in mind, that towards the payment of debts there must be Revenue; that to have Revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment inseperable from the selection of the proper objects (which is always a choice of difficulties) ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the Conduct of the Government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in the measures for obtaining Revenue which the public exigencies may at any time dictate.

[hometoroost]

And Washington led and army into battle to fight people who imposed taxes and regulations that were a mere trifle compared to what goes on today or even in the first decades of the nation.

[grumpygresh]

Can we then have the same tax rate as under Geo. Washington? Will you give us zero, zero?

[Zakeet]

Whiskey Rebellion

“George Washington grappled with the problem” of taxes, Obama said.

If the Wee Wee weren't such a moron, his teleprompter would know what happened when George Washington over-grappled with the problem of taxes.

The problem: How to pay off Revolutionary War debt.

Washington's solution: Impose a special levy on distilled spirits. At that time, it was about the only way farmers on the frontier could transport their crops to market to sell for cash.

The consequences: The farmers revolted. Washington was forced to take to the field as commander of the U.S. Army -- one of only two times this has happened to date (the other being Madison during the War of 1812). Washington fought a losing guerrilla war; whiskey distillation was driven across the border from Pennsylvania to the then independent territories of Kentucky and Tennessee; according to most historians, the cost of enforcement exceeded the amount of revenues collected.

[newheart]

I cannot tell a lie...

Er... uh... never mind.

[WOBBLY BOB]

George Washington: His New Nation’s Largest Whiskey Distiller

Washington began producing whiskey at the suggestion of his plantation manager, who was Scottish. The new distiller first began by purchasing a copper still, but his first batch was so successful that he bought three more stills and built a larger distillery.

In 1798, the year before his death, Washington’s distillery produced 11,000 gallons of whiskey and produced a profit of $7,500. That was an enormous sum of money over 200 years ago.

http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/Controversies/20070531150031.html

Washington’s reconstructed distillery is now a national distilling museum and the only historic site in the United States showing the distilling process from crop to finished product, which it does with costumed personnel. It’s now open to the public seven days a week from April through October.

[American Constitutionalist]

Obama, the new King Heriod of the client state of the NEW ROMAN EMPIRE imposing his oppressive taxes.
King Heriod was of doubtful origins, and his " Jewish birth and Jewishness " was in question.
King Heriod was know for his large and colossal building projects.
The NEW Roman empire is finally here.