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Seeking government coddling
Washington Times ^ | October 14, 2018 | Helen E. Krieble

Posted on 10/15/2018 8:49:22 PM PDT by TBP

Astonishingly, today’s Americans expect government to care for us from cradle to grave, the way commoners once expected a benevolent king to care for his subjects. We treat people as members of groups rather than as individuals, insidiously devolving into the very class system against which the Founders rebelled.

Americans are voluntarily surrendering the very freedoms that millions fought and died to establish and protect. President James Garfield once said the most common form of death in politics is suicide. After a noble 225-year history, is the American experiment dying at the hands of its own people?

Many of the “long train of abuses” that led to our rebellion from the British crown are eerily similar to our own government’s excesses. The Declaration of Independence listed grievances against the king that are all too familiar today. The authors accused the king of refusing “his assent to laws necessary for the public good,” of forbidding locals to pass laws “of immediate and pressing importance,” even of dissolving local representative bodies.

How different is that from today’s “supreme” federal system that routinely over-rides local and state laws, especially by federal court orders and “constitutional” rulings based on premises not in the U.S. Constitution?

The crown had “obstructed the administration of justice” by controlling judges’ tenure and salaries; today’s government does so by empowering judges to usurp legislative powers — to make up new laws rather than interpret laws passed by the people’s representatives. It is a more modern technique, but with the same anti-democratic result.

King George had “erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.” In 2018, the federal government has more than 4 million employees and costs taxpayers more than $4 trillion a year.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; biggovernment; bloggers; declaration; dependency; election2018; election2020; freedom
Do Americans still value our freedom? Do we still hold the values of the Declaration of Independence, the vision that founded this country?
1 posted on 10/15/2018 8:49:22 PM PDT by TBP
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To: TBP

The way to stop this?

A Constitutional amendment that states that “any citizen who has received government assistance within the last 4 years - plus 30 days, is not entitled to vote in any election whatsoever”.

This would stop politicians from buying votes with taxpayer money.

Problem solved.


2 posted on 10/15/2018 9:14:42 PM PDT by User900 ( "Michelle" Obama is a dude - Obama is married to a dude - Don't believe it? - See my profile page -)
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To: User900

Indeed, this is akin to theocracy, whereby the speech of some is subsidized by shimmies. Welfare-vote fare is completely contrary to freedom of speech.


3 posted on 10/15/2018 9:41:07 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: TBP

The Muslims do not go the failed political route, they have fatwas, which are basically overriding principles. This is why they win and we lose. They bypass the political process. The Declaration was a means to forgo the British political process that was corrupt and gamed.

We need a new declaration principle by a confederation of states to abolish the fundamentalist evils of progressism from this country.


4 posted on 10/15/2018 9:44:48 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: TBP

thanks for posting this


5 posted on 10/16/2018 1:10:40 AM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: User900

“...any citizen who has received government assistance within the last 4 years is not entitled to vote...”

Whoa! What about us disabled veterans?


6 posted on 10/16/2018 1:16:33 AM PDT by VietVet
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To: VietVet
VietVet wrote:

"Whoa! What about us disabled veterans?"

Stop with the red herring. You know as well as I do that 99% of people on the federal dole are not disabled vets, or disabled otherwise.

Obviously there would have to be a few exceptions for the genuinely disabled. Then of course the courrupt rats would try to find a way to get everyone who is accepting govt. assistance to be classified as "disabled" so that they could continue on with the same old same old.

The amendment would have to be carefully crafted and future proofed.

Of course this is an excercise in fantasy as this will never happen without some cataclysmic event as a precursor. Say like.. a civil war, and a scenario in which we win.

 

7 posted on 10/16/2018 5:59:29 AM PDT by User900 ( "Michelle" Obama is a dude - Obama is married to a dude - Don't believe it? - See my profile page -)
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To: User900
It is not a red herring to me, nor to many of the men that I served with who are still struggling with the after effects of their service and sacrifice.

Nor do I “know” that 99% of the people receiving some form of federal government assistance are merely on the “dole”, and are not disabled otherwise. I do know, for a fact, that my wife who is 100% disabled by a series of strokes, is not considered eligible to receive disability from the Social Security Insurance that she paid into in thirty years of working. It is harder to get “on the dole” than you think, and many of the programs are actually run by the states, even when funded by the Federal government. The real ‘hogs slopping at the gubrment trough’ are the hordes of government employees required to administer these programs, who receive more in salary and benefits than they distribute in assistance payments. Often they outnumber the assisted beneficiaries as well. THEY are the patronage clients whose votes are sought and bought by the corrupt politicians. (I was one of these bureaucrats for 20 years.) And you will NEVER convince most of them that they are not working, and working for the public good.

8 posted on 10/17/2018 5:40:27 AM PDT by VietVet
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