Posted on 04/03/2007 4:05:22 PM PDT by sdnet
Speaking in 2004 to a crowd of wealthy democratic supporters during a fund raising event in San Francisco, Hillary Clinton spoke the very words that illustrate the intentions of the government so very well. "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
While those words were spoken three years ago, they are just as important today. They represent not just the Democrat party's strong commitment to the redistribution of wealth rightfully earned by the American people, it provides insight into the focus that our politicians have in running our nation. It highlights the precise arrogance that Hillary, and many other politicians, have. Our property is not the federal government's to take. The people are not here for the federal government to milk.
Governments are meant to provide protection for their people. Whether that means standing guard at the border, interpreting intelligence data from around the world, monitoring the actions of hostile nations or providing domestic police forces to ensure obedience from the people, governments provide the necessary protection that most Americans simply cannot provide for themselves.
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She tries that stunt as el-Presidente and we’ll have to have a 21st-century version of the Boston Tea Party.
Yep, that graphic is included in this == http://youtube.com/watch?v=t6lc17H35lA
She and Hugo Chavez are ready to form the Pan American Collectivist Union.
She can have all my stuff I will acquire from here on. It’s all being made in China: pet food, clothes, ink cartridges. If she can get it away from China without paying for it, she is welcome to it.
“These tenants are especially true at the federal level with any nation.”
Tenants - I never trust the spell checker.
Let’s take away her power and political future for the common good!
That being said, this wench doesn't scare me. We've had worse (Wilson, Roosevelt, the Johnsons, etc.).
Firstly, that's a lie. Things are taken first and foremost to benefit politicians.
Secondly, even if the motivation were accurate, not everyone agrees what the "common good" actually is. Young men are drafted for the common good--in the opinion of those who run the government. The young men may not agree that they are serving the common good by going to war.
Thirdly, even if the motivation is to serve the common good, and even if the "taking" actually does serve the common good, the takers have no right to take what does not belong to them. If they did, then every thief and common criminal could justify his crimes at trial with the logical equivalent justification that he had greater need of whatever it was he stole than did his victim. It is intellectually dishonest for politicians to use the same invalid excuse that our courts disallow in the case of thieves, robbers and burglars.
Does anybody have the text of this “common good” statement—in context?
I’d love to see what else Shrillery was saying.
Ditto.
When will the elite walk the walk?
Never.
Hypocrites all, they mouth a doctrine and philosophy for others they would never take upon themselves.
Run it through Google or Ask.com and you’ll get all you want.
She tries that stunt as el-Presidente and we’ll have to have a 21st-century version of the Boston Tea Party.
Thank you for posting this. I’ve been afraid that no one remembers her very frightening comments at that event. This needs to be broadcast far and wide.
And welcome to FreeRepublic.
She w
on’t be President.
During the 1964 presidential election campaign Lyndon Johnson said something almost identical to this Clintonian assertion. I haven’t been able to find it by surfing the net.
LBJ’s stated his intention something like, “We want to take from you money that is being spent unwisely and spend it more appropriately.” I thought at the time that this was an exquisite expression of the Socialist Manifesto.
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