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To: SkyPilot

arguing that these programs strengthen the nation and free Americans to “take the risks that make this country great.”

History repeats....
“In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.”

- Gibbon

History will show that the US was yet again another country that thought that ‘this time is different’ until it wasn’t
‘The hubris of empire repeating itself’.


6 posted on 01/21/2013 4:54:27 PM PST by griswold3 (Big Government does not tolerate rivals.)
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To: griswold3

I guess 16 trillion+ in debt isn’t enough risk.


11 posted on 01/21/2013 4:58:06 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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