Posted on 04/09/2011 3:03:35 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
It really HAS come to seem that voting out one group of clowns only guarantees they be replaced with yet another group of essentially like-minded clowns.
I believe we've passed the tipping point, but I live in CA, so you can probably see my pessimism. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We were never supposed to allow a ‘RULING’ class. That was our first mistake.....but not the last.
The political class no longer listens to us because they are no longer afraid that we’ll engage in armed rebellion. And so far, they’ve been right.
Why did we vote in the last election ? ohh yeah, we were promised and told that the new guys in town work for us, we the people . sarcasm
May 15th is the scary day. I hope it turns out to be like Y2K...nothing.
I have never gone into a public servants office and felt as if I were dealing with my servant. And I’ve been around for over 60 years. Have any FReepers had a different experiance?
We've expended all of our time. Mr Franklin has been proved prescient. We've failed at 'keeping it'.
This is a video that covers the housing collapse AND what your vanity covers. The encroachment of central banks and their harm to a free people through currency debasement.
It can be watched in 30min, or in two 15min segments.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=theamericandreamfilm&annotation_id=annotation_996700&feature=iv
Enjoy and share!
Ahem...Ron Paul??
They have found that we will whine and moan and when all is said and done, they will be re-elected anyway. So they don’t have to listen.
They have judges and bureaucrats in place to do as they wish evem if we voted the bad guys out.
They have judges and bureaucrats in place to do as they wish evem if we voted the bad guys out.
Never forget the power of self-preservation.
Fake quote alert.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/jefferson/banks.asp
Didn't sound like Jeff to me, and I was right.
"That's 'cause we ain't played Cowboys and Ruling Class yet, . . . but I do believe it's a-comin'."
SNOPES is PARTIALLY right. Over time, others have embellished his original thoughts and words. Having said that, Mr. Jefferson’s enmity to the banks and paper money IS well known, to wit:
(From the Thomas Jefferson Monticello site at
http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/private-banks-quotation).
The first part of the quotation (”If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered”) has not been found anywhere in Thomas Jefferson’s writings, to Albert Gallatin or otherwise. It is identified in Respectfully Quoted as spurious, and the editor further points out that the words “inflation” and “deflation” are not documented until after Jefferson’s lifetime.[3]
The second part of the quotation (”I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies...”) may well be a paraphrase of a statement Jefferson made in a letter to John Taylor in 1816. He wrote, “And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”[4]
The third part of this quotation (”The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs”) may be a misquotation of Jefferson’s comment to John Wayles Eppes, “Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.” [5]
SNOPES, owned and operated by a “progressive,” big government man and wife team, have a political and philosophical reason for painting Jefferson as a fellow friend of the paper money and banks (the FED) that make possible the Obama agenda now destroying the nation he helped to found. Don’t be too quick to trust Snopes in political matters.
They ignore us because we ignore them. The vast majority of we the people are perfectly happy to just let the politicals keep on doing their stupid political shit as long as the politicals don’t hamper our chosen lifestyles or tax us too heavily. As long as they leave us mostly alone, we’ll let the politicals save the whales, or the snail darters, or the Planned Parenthood pap smearers, or whatever.
But if the politicals try to take away too many of our guns, or SUVs, or dollars...
Look, it’s fake quote.
Several paraphrases cobbled together and assigned to a long-dead man, complete with quotation marks, is a fake.
I expect Jefferson would have mostly agreed with the sentiments expressed, but we’re not allowed to invent something a dead guy might have said and then claim it’s a quote.
When you do, you’re heading straight into “fake but accurate” territory.
I don’t trust Snopes in political matters, but their research is often quite good. The truth or falsehood, as such, of a statement is not determined by its source. Obviously the source should be taken into consideration, but if Obama says something that is true, it doesn’t cease to be true because he said it.
If you have something resembling proof that Snopes or Wiki are inaccurate in a particular case, cite it. But don’t expect everybody to automatically reject everything they say because of possible bias. We should be skeptical of all claims until they are proven, regardless of source.
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