Posted on 04/09/2014 11:58:13 AM PDT by The Looking Spoon
Liberals think their desire to have unfettered proliferation of social welfare makes them the charitable ones. Imagine my surprise to see that even the founding fathers had to combat this sort of foolishness.
The Framers get little credit for their understanding of human nature and history. Widespread ignorance of their wisdom is a self-inflicted, and horrible wound.
It is worth the rather difficult read, fellow FReepers.
We don’t feed animals in the wild for the same reason we shouldn’t give food, shelter, money, healthcare, insurance and Obamaphones to the chronically poor. They will become dependent. In Yellowstone National Park, dependency is a bad thing. For Democrats, its their only chance for political survival.
I agree with that.
However they get a lot of credit from me. I always was amazed how in that period of time with very limited mobility, and geographic coverage, how the founders could be such astute observers of basic human nature.
Certainly they had other things to worry about,like their homes, horses, family health,and how to make a living.- tom
Contrast the American system that he describes, with the Socialist abomination we have today, post FDR, JFK, LBJ & those Republicans, since, who unlike Reagan have not had the guts to even challenge it.
William Flax
You can’t “lead or drive them out of” poverty, when you’ve off-shored all their jobs to the Chinese who are willing to work for $2 a day.
Free traders are enabling big government, big budget deficits and big government debt, even as they destroy America’s industries.
We need to restore the import tariffs and bring industries back to the U.S. Then we take Franklin’s advice to lead and drive them out of poverty.
Jefferson also originally thought that America could stay an agricultural economy and trade for everything else we needed.
Then in his words, “the unthinkable happpened”, and Europe cut us off from manufactured goods. He quickly changed his mind and stated that a strong manufacturing base was essential to protect a free state.
We’ve also gone against the advice of George Washington to avoid foreign entanglements. Our dependence on foreign trade and the decimation of our industries is a strategic mistake that makes us highly vulnerable.
bkmk
For sure. College educated or not, their grasp of colonial history, ancient classics, the Bible, Roman and Greek history, and that of three philosophers in particular, Locke, Montesquieu, and Hume was amazing.
Compare to today’s clowns in DC . . .
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