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Obama’s America — and ours
Human Events ^ | 7/24/12 | Pat Buchanan

Posted on 07/25/2012 11:10:43 AM PDT by duckln

From Jamestown in 1607 to Yorktown in 1781, there was no federal government. There was no United States. Yet generations of colonists had built forts, cleared lands, created farms, established workshops. Americans fed, clothed and housed themselves, creating one of the highest standards of living on earth for 3 million people.

How could the U.S. government have built the roads and bridges if the U.S. government did not exist before 1789? There were no public schools until the 19th century. Colleges were the creations of religious denominations. The Pell grant had not yet been invented.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bridges; buchanan; built; individuals; roads
Pat's nails it.....again
1 posted on 07/25/2012 11:10:48 AM PDT by duckln
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To: duckln
As per Mark Levin: Its called the Civil Society, where the individual respects the natural rights of others and the values, customs and time tested traditions passed from one generation to another.

Statists have long known that in order to rule, they must destroy the civil society, destroy the bonds between like minded religious people.

2 posted on 07/25/2012 12:06:14 PM PDT by Jacquerie (I want my America back.)
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