Posted on 11/09/2016 3:58:17 PM PST by vannrox
I hear you.
"I am not among those who fear the people. They...are our dependence for continued freedom. And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds...our people...must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they (the British) now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers....This example reads to us the salutary lesson that private fortunes are destroyed by public, as well as by private extravagance. And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from the principle in one instance, becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the 'bellum omnium in omnia,' which some philosophers...have mistaken for the natural, instead of the abusive, state of man. And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." - Thomas JeffersonIt is up to "the People" now to hold those they have elected to the principles and ideas of liberty outlined in the speeches and writings of the Founders, including the 85 Essays of The Federalist, which were the Framers' own explanations of the Constitution. We may never get the opportunity again.
We are les deplorables.
Well written and spot on.
Could we call this our American Spring?
... this song says exactly how I feel:
E Deplorabus Unum
LMAO.
Who is Tyler Durden?
Who is John Galt?
Excellent. If you could see my smile.
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BUMP!!!!
Thanks but it still doesn’t have the link to the video he cites.
Lots of insiders and pundits are going to feel a little queasy next time they’re at 33,000 feet and look out the window and see those tiny green squares and small dots of towns, knowing for once in their lives that there are more of us in flyover country than there are of them. And knowing their good buddies at the polling company may not be as smart as that guy in that little square, shoveling cow manure in order to put bread on his family’s table.
The Smart People got schooled.
I have had confidence in Trump since the primaries, my only fear was that there weren’t enough of “us” left. But we did it!
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YES!!!!!!!!
ah, I think the “Video” was a metaphor, not a real thing
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We did what we could, yes. But God actually did it, big time. Truth of the matter is that we were all toast. Hillary wasn't cackling over nothing - all of the powers of the world aligned against Trump, and went at him with a vengeance. This win is divine intervention, IMHO.
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