This needs to get out.
There is no economy without private ownership.
Posted: Wednesday, March 24th Filed in: Endorsements, Press Releases
Florence, Kentucky – Former Vice President Dick Cheney announced today that he is endorsing Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate.
http://www.treygrayson.com/news/post/former-vice-president-dick-cheney-endorses-trey-grayson
Those who whine about Rand Paul.....I guess this is your candidate.
And this is the candidate that the GOP establishment....and Mitch “I swallowed my chin” McConnell are so eagerly pushing. The GOP better get a clue...and quick.
Better a candidate more like Ron Paul than Barack Hussein Obama.
Almost everyone expressed shock and surprise.
The truth is, the folks on the Left are absolutely convinced that they are on the right path. They say exactly what they intend to do. Then they go ahead and do it.
Almost everyone expresses shock and surprise.
let him be the first to give up his own privately owned property.
WHAT!?!?! Wow, people in Kentucky have two morons to choose from. Paul and this fool.
They’ll just grow the underground economy...which is where those of use with measurable IQs will be.
The rest will go into one of the great welfare schemes - public “service”, unions, or just plain welfare.
Good luck, suckers.
The video does not have enough content to determine the context. Whoever posted it was not very smart about it!
Perfect example of why the GOP CANNOT be trusted.
Marxist coup in progress...now they are just all fighting over who get to decide who gets paid off.
He could have been saying that government needs to get out of the private economy.
I am withholding judgment until clarified.
I can’t see the video now but I saw some discussion earlier and it seems the context is the “we” who rids itself of private ownership is the government. He was speaking in the first person with “we” as a gov official.
I’ll have to check the vid out later, this was just the impression some got when they were viewing the full video. I know there are some edited ones floating around that just cut part of that so you don’t get the context.
I wonder what group he was speaking to?
the word ‘ownership’ is somewhat fudged.
And so what is the Republican party doing about this?
The quality of that very short video clip is very poor and suspect.
Before passing judgement on this candidate - we should have more information. He has outlined his principles on this website:
http://www.treygrayson.com/issues/common-sense-conservative-reforms-for-kentucky-and-america
Cheny can't be considered conservative now, and why is he even a 'pub??
Who is he??
Besides an idiot, I mean.
Obvious question: WHo would pay taxes? lol
No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope that it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen, if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve.
This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty towards the majesty of heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.
Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth — to know the worst and to provide for it. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House?
Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with these warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation — the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motives for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?
No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us; they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer on the subject? Nothing.
We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves longer.
Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.
Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne. In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope.
If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us!
They tell us, sir, that we are weak — unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?
Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.
The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come!
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry - March 23, 1775
Besides being an idiot, this guy sounds more and more like a marxist!
He probably misspoke unintentionally, but KY people are always looking for an excuse to vote Demorat, and they can usually find it.
ping.