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I have never been a fan at any level of Gerald Ford. However, after reading this American Minute column, I now know that he was an outspoken proponent of limited government and capitalism.
1 posted on 07/30/2019 10:24:05 AM PDT by Perseverando
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To: Perseverando

Ford was much smarter and more conservative, than people gave him credit for.


2 posted on 07/30/2019 10:33:00 AM PDT by Innovative
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We’re having to pay the interest on all the bad ‘investments’ Obama made over an 8 year period of time.

That IS the problem. Obama spent his share AND the share of the next five Presidents after him...


4 posted on 07/30/2019 10:47:09 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats created black hellholes in many of our beautiful cities. Shame on them.)
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To: Perseverando
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."
- Thomas Jefferson 3rd President, Jan 20, 1777 to Jan 20, 1781
Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.
This quote has also been attributed to Davy Crockett (circa 1829) and is consistent with his very-limited-government philosophy.

5 posted on 07/30/2019 10:47:11 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Perseverando
'Do you realize that a government big enough to give us everything we want is a government big enough to take from us everything we have?'"

Yet when Big establishment religion swallows freedom whole hog, nobody sees a thing, even celebrating the chains and chastizing anyone who dares to warn and show the way up and out of the concensus lockdown paradigms.

It really will take a miracle to free the people from bondage.

The sign announcing freedom was projected on the National Mall this past week, so there is hope for the future. The Moon, after all, represents the Kingdom of David.

Amos 9:11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

What was God's most repeated warning? Don't go after other gods. The consensus gods don't allow a word in edgewise, because all is "settled" already. So many patterns in history..

Meanwhile, the Spirit of Discovery is the Spirit of Revelation. Nobody got out of Egypt without the bones of Joseph: his essence, his basic framework, what made him tick. That was the Spirit or Elohim that even Pharaoh recognized immediately.

Dream big, Saturn V big. It's how to land on the Moon, the Kingdom of David.

Most people recognize a miracle when a man snaps out of a coma after being in one for years. How much moreso when millions snap out of a coma at the same time.

6 posted on 07/30/2019 11:00:56 AM PDT by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
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He was considered as being towards the left end of the Republican party. But those sentiments certainly resonate with Conservatives.

I have read things written by Adelai Stevenson, regarded as the most Leftist Democrat of his era, which sound like they would be said by a moderate Republican today.

I think in the past people were just relatively more sane.


7 posted on 07/30/2019 11:01:46 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Perseverando

bkmk


10 posted on 07/30/2019 1:30:11 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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“He was the only President not elected.”

So everyone else who died in office did it right on the next Election Day?


11 posted on 07/30/2019 5:41:28 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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