Posted on 01/05/2012 8:50:47 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
01:06:40 NONE OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS WERE FOR WEAK GOVERNMENT.
01:06:42 THEY WERE FOR LEAN GOVERNMENT THAT SPENT AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE AND THAT FOCUSED ITS POWER ON GETTING KEY THINGS DONE, BUT THEY WERE ALSO VERY PRAGMATIC AND THEY WERE FOR WHAT WORKED, AND I THINK THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY HAVE TO HAVE THAT DEBATE BUT INONE OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS WERE FOR WEAK GOVERNMENT.
01:06:42 THEY WERE FOR LEAN GOVERNMENT THAT SPENT AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE AND THAT FOCUSED ITS POWER ON GETTING KEY THINGS DONE, BUT THEY WERE ALSO VERY PRAGMATIC AND THEY WERE FOR WHAT WORKED, AND I THINK THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY HAVE TO HAVE THAT DEBATE BUT I WOULD SEE NOTHING INAPPROPRIATE ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY LOOKING AT THE MUNICIPAL CASES AROUND THE COUNTRY, LOOKING AT THE CURRENT SITUATION, AND I WANT TO REPEAT WHAT I SAID EARLIER BECAUSE I THINK IT'S CENTRAL TO THIS.
01:07:07 IF THE PEOPLE WHO GAVE THEMSELVES A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS WHILE DEFRAUDING THEIR EMPLOYEES DID SO IN A KNOWING WAY, THEN FRANKLY, WITHOUT TALKING ABOUT ANY INDIVIDUAL PERSON IN THIS CITY, BUT AS A GENERAL PROVISION, THAT SHOULD BE SOMETHING WHICH LEADS TO PROSECUTION, BECAUSE YOU CANNOT HAVE -- YOU CANNOT DEFEND CAPITALISM IF IT IS THE ABILITY OF THE RICH AND POWERFUL TO EXPLOIT, LIE TO, AND RIP OFF EVERYBODY WHO WORKS FOR THEM OR INVESTS IN THEM.
01:07:34 THERE HAS TO BE A BASIC RULE OF HONESTY FOR CAPITALISM TO FUNCTION. WOULD SEE NOTHING INAPPROPRIATE ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY LOOKING AT THE MUNICIPAL CASES AROUND THE COUNTRY, LOOKING AT THE CURRENT SITUATION, AND I WANT TO REPEAT WHAT I SAID EARLIER BECAUSE I THINK IT'S CENTRAL TO THIS.
01:07:07 IF THE PEOPLE WHO GAVE THEMSELVES A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS WHILE DEFRAUDING THEIR EMPLOYEES DID SO IN A KNOWING WAY, THEN FRANKLY, WITHOUT TALKING ABOUT ANY INDIVIDUAL PERSON IN THIS CITY, BUT AS A GENERAL PROVISION, THAT SHOULD BE SOMETHING WHICH LEADS TO PROSECUTION, BECAUSE YOU CANNOT HAVE -- YOU CANNOT DEFEND CAPITALISM IF IT IS THE ABILITY OF THE RICH AND POWERFUL TO EXPLOIT, LIE TO, AND RIP OFF EVERYBODY WHO WORKS FOR THEM OR INVESTS IN THEM.
01:07:34 THERE HAS TO BE A BASIC RULE OF HONESTY FOR CAPITALISM TO FUNCTION.
Nice word play to allow for misinterpretation. Weak as opposed to strong? Or weak as opposed to large?
People are looking for a conservative who can beat Obama. They know none of the guys are perfect and many here have had problems with Gingrich and felt Santorum could not win so when he won Iowa, many felt maybe there was a chance. As for those who post all of Newts sins and the problems they have with him over and over, they think nobody has seen any of this before because some people are for Newt. The reality is..people are willing to overlook what they see if they have a candidate to beat Obama. Many felt Newt would take Obama on and although he has warts, he is not the anti-christ as some would have you believe.
Context needed.
Is he referring here to the Progressive movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, or to the present one using the same name?
If he was referring to the first one, I think most Americans would agree. The original Progressive Movement was a very diverse movement. Much of what it did we would today consider positive.
Other aspects of it were eugenic, proto-fascist and anti-constitutional.
IOW, mixed, like most things.
But I think it is difficult to argue that the Progressive movement did NOT change America for the better. Whether it would have done so, on a net basis, had it ever gained unchallenged power is an entirely different question. But it didn't gain such power, and so its primary function was to push the country in directions that were on a net basis positive.
To me that is an excuse. It may explain his slump in IA, but it doesn’t cover his decline nationally. The smartest man in the room should have known to stay on topic and keep hitting Obummer.
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You missed where Fox News who are in the tank for Romney and almost every ‘elite/establishment’ ‘conservative’ pundit in the country trashed him for the past 6 weeks.....
He should have responded to the smears earlier.
Santorum has gotten a free pass because he isn’t a threat to Romney nationally.
limited does sound a lot better than weak.. but compared to what centralized government does today, it is neither limited or weak..one thing it is responsible for are protecting the borders which it does nothing about....getting tired of hearing about what they are doing next...
Love Rick!
But he’s no fighter in the Big Leagues.
Show us a Santorum sound bite that’s received any media attention, attacking Obama....
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