Oh my.
Sorry, but Senator Cruz supports lots of government programs that wouldn’t come close to meeting the Crockett test. Things like the entitlement programs of the New Deal and the Great Society.
More and more over the top campaign stuff showing up every day, from all sides.
I thought it was Sonny Crockett from Miami Vice. My bad
Crockett went to Texas for land, to seek out new hunting opportunities and to reignite his political career.
He saw it as a new beginning, as did so many Americans and others who went to Texas. I believe he would have sent for his somewhat estranged family once he had established himself.
Instead he died at The Alamo and became the stuff of legend.
I was proud to know one of his relatives of the same name.
Thank God for men like David Crockett.
Jackson arranged to back his opponent, and he lost the election.
Fable or not, the story is a good one with a powerful lesson.
The central government has NO ... repeat NO ... power, obligation, right or ability to engage in acts of charity. Just as in Crockett’s time, the fact that a majority in Congress are willing to vote for something doesn’t give them the legal authority to do so.
I could type until my fingers fell off listing all the crap that our gummint has approved and rammed down our throats that can’t be found in Article I Section 8. Name ONE aspect of your life that Uncle Sam doesn’t regulate, tax, license, inspect or supervise. From your toothpaste in the morning to your blanket at night, all of it is regulated.
If true, that has to be tied, at least, for the two most fateful juxtaposed sentences in the English manguage.