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To: Reaganghost; John Robertson; Jack Bull; scouse; M Kehoe; Always Right; syriacus; Fzob; ...
The common denominator of the problems facing America today is this:

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I’ve come to realize there is a very close resemblance to the first,” Ronald Reagan. A better definition of a "professional" politician is one who is more interested in securing their own lifetime career in office through repeated re-election than in fulfilling the duties of their elected office. And because they are more interested in their own re-election, they are willing to subvert the Constitution in order to use the public treasury to buy blocks of votes from the public. In effect, "professional" politicians have converted our "republic" into a democracy by surrogates."

How did they do it?

"In contrast, unhampered by term limits, "professional" politicians began using socialism as the mechanism for the creation of blocks or categories of voters. With the almost unlimited taxing and borrowing power of the US treasury at their disposal, "professional" politicians then repeatedly and competitively bid for, and purchased the blocks of votes which they had created with socialism.

As early as 1964 Reagan reminded us, "Plutarch warned, 'The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."

39 posted on 11/16/2005 6:44:30 AM PST by HopefulPatriot
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BTTT


40 posted on 11/16/2005 6:51:41 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: HopefulPatriot; Reaganghost; steve50; JohnGalt; fporretto; George Frm Br00klyn Park; ...
What can be done about it?

"If the Divine Hand of Providence is still watching over or guiding the path of the United States, surely there must be another Ronald Reagan or perhaps even a number of men like him in a country with a population of nearly 300 million..The men and women serving in the military, not only today, but also in every past generation are a testament to the fact that patriots exactly like those that fought the Revolutionary War are and have been present in our population in substantial numbers in every generation of Americans.

We must find the answers to these two questions:

We think we have found the answers.

41 posted on 11/16/2005 6:55:38 AM PST by HopefulPatriot
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