Posted on 07/03/2002 8:45:32 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
Aherrmm... To my amateur knowledge of history -- it was 3 percent. I do not know of a Revolution in history which ever occured over 1 percent... but in Early Capitalist days, 3 percent was a good chunk of your Net Profit.
In these modern, industrialized days, however, I should be quite content if the Government subsisted upon 3 percent.
Otherwise your post is correct.
filthy-rich owners
extract obscene profits
huge profit
high tariffs
starving people
thousands of workers into the street
John Adams would denouce us for our Godless behaviour and for caving in to tyrannic Federalism.
Three weeks later the National Enquirer would run an expose on his weekend trist in Vegas with Hal Berry.
I'd still vote for him.
*grin*
Amendment II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Can't this author understand simple gammar and read simple english.
It's pretty clear to most people.
He should have known better than to run Windows Millenium Edition.
The present and past antics of Hitlery would cause voter disenfranchisement. Many traitors (one who served himself as president) and malcontents would be rounded up and executed by military firing squads.
In short, there would be massive reversals and internments with war being declared and swiftly carried out against all muslim nations. The religion would be banned in America and their temples razed. All adherents to this satanic religion would be deported or incarcerated.
It wouldn't take these founding fathers too long, but they would indeed put this country back in as close to its original shape as possible.
No more welfare or charity coming from the drastically downsized federal government. Drug addiction would be considered a serious offence against the citizenry both for user and seller resulting in death for both.
Well they probably wouldn't approve of tax revenues for public education at ALL!! Considering that before the War, the only hint of federally funded education was in the Northwest Ordinance and that public education did not exist, I imagine they'd be pretty POed. That's the problem with this nation of states. The revisionist history has taught us that the government has always taken care of us. I imagine there's an idiot or two out there that believes Social Security was around long before FDR. Or any federal police force? Anybody care to take a guess how long that's been around?
And they would be put in a federal prison on 'Kingpin' statutes. Major hemp growers you know, and were not opiates and cocca products popular in their day? ;-)
(Not directed at you personally.)
Whoops, critical distinction. Double negative slipped by me.
And this right here. You and I both know EXACTLY when that started. Taxes? Before a certain time there weren't any. Oh, but with public education getting its roots in the same place you need taxes to pay for it. War powers of the President? I think they were absolutely clear about that, but hey they were absolutely clear about national banks too, but Federalists, Whigs, and later Republicans (the 19th and early 20th century ones) didn't care about that either.
Pathetic.
The Federalist"
Good luck. To the left, the Federalist papers simply don't exist. If leftists were ever to recognize their existence, they'd be forced to realize that most, if not all of their current positions are unconstitutional. No, they prefer the Constitution through the nuanced distortions of judges living centuries after the fact, a preference summarized well by (Moron)Gary Ackerman (D-NY) in a recent joust with Sean Hannity, when Hannity cited a particular passage in The Federalist to support an argument.
Ackerman said, "well, the courts decide the meaning of the constitution...we take an oath to uphold the Constitution, not the Federalist Papers."
Translated: "The Constitution means whatever I want it to mean, you ignorant apes."
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