Posted on 10/04/2008 12:50:01 PM PDT by PhilosopherStones
Great article...this says it all “Liberals need Conservatives; Conservatives do not need Liberals.”
Yes, which is why I began be stating explicitly that Obambi is not the problem. He’s just the symptom. The problem is the people who support him and others like him.
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.” - Alexander Tyler
I believe that we have reached that tipping point.
An astute student of history and human nature, Thomas Jefferson, predicted what we see happening here in America. As ambassador in France, he witnessed the run up to the FIRST socialist/communist revolution there. He penned the following observations concerning what would happen HERE should that socialism come to the United States. He CORRECTLY predicted that we would become an increasingly contentious and litigious people as we shouldered one another out of the way to get OURS from the public trough and the trough would soon be empty.
He also knew where the bulk of the problem would originate.
That whirring noise you may hear coming from that mountain in Charlottesville, Virginia is Mr. Jefferson getting up to around 3600 RPM.
(A 6 minute video with this information may be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypLu49pq3bI)
“The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.” —Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XIX, 1782. ME 2:230
“I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe.” —Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787. Papers 12:442
“I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice.” —Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 1800. ME 10:173
“Our cities... exhibit specimens of London only; our country is a different nation.” —Thomas Jefferson to Andre de Daschkoff, 1809. ME 12:304
“Everyone, by his property or by his satisfactory situation, is interested in the support of law and order. And such men may safely and advantageously reserve to themselves a wholesome control over their public affairs and a degree of freedom which, in the hands of the canaille of the cities of Europe, would be instantly perverted to the demolition and destruction of everything public and private.” —Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1813. ME 13:401
“An insurrection... of science, talents, and courage, against rank and birth... has failed in its first effort, because the mobs of the cities, the instrument used for its accomplishment, debased by ignorance, poverty, and vice, could not be restrained to rational action. But the world will recover from the panic of this first catastrophe.” —Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1813. ME 13:402
“I fear nothing for our liberty from the assaults of force; but I have seen and felt much, and fear more from English books, English prejudices, English manners, and the apes, the dupes, and designs among our professional crafts. When I look around me for security against these seductions, I find it in the wide spread of our agricultural citizens, in their unsophisticated minds, their independence and their power, if called on, to crush the Humists of our cities, and to maintain the principles which severed us from England.” —Thomas Jefferson to Horatio G. Spafford, 1814. ME 14:120
““A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.” - Alexander Tyler”
Fairly ironic since we see the exact *opposite* happening. The majority of voters seemed to be *against* the $700 (800) billion bailout but they have been ignored, as they have been ignored on so many other issues.
The system we have is based on representatives. The people are generally powerless.
Very interesting reading. Were you by chance Ayn Rand in a previous life?
I am guessing you ARE advocating the spanking of the spoiled left and their metromentality.
Should, God forbid, the O become president, a spanking will be in order.
A task left for better minds than mine.
But yes, something along those lines.
We need to bank in the overwhelming majority of regional banks which are not in any trouble because they didn’t get caught up playing with the big city boys.
We need to try to keep our produce and our products in our own regions. That may mean taking a financial hit iin the short run, but nothing like the one we are about to take with the bailout rape.
We need to weed the moonbats (and ourselves) off of what Sarah called the “Opium” - Other People’s Money.
We need to demand not just cash in exchange for value, but value in exchange for value. We currently exchange our labor for cash from moonbat land. In return, they offer us nothing but trash for the dollars we wish to spend. It’s a losing battle in the culture war.
“The system we have is based on representatives. The people are generally powerless.”
I would respectfully argue that our representatives are, unfortunately, precisely representative. The people chose to elect Nancy Pelosi, the impeached judge Alcyee Hastings, the manslaughterer Kennedy, the corrupt Dodd and Byrd, the pedophile Franks. And they stand ready now to elect the Chosen One, His Oiliness, the Obamassiah.
It’s not that our representatives have betrayed us, it is that half of our population betrays us each time they vote.
One man, one vote has done us in, just like Tytler said.
As for me, I'm about finished with my life here on Earth...but I admonish my children and grandchildren every day to become warriors.
If God turns away, and Obama is elected with a friendly congress, the slide will start in earnest.
I'm voting for Sarah...
First the red states secede from the blue states, and then we’ll see who else volunteers to join us, and whether we’ll accept them.
Sent to everyone in my address book.
On the other hand, I have a big mortgage with Citibank. I work in the blue zone for a blue zone company. Most of my friends live in the blue zone and despite my attempts to wean them away, they are thoroughly entangled in blue zone ideas.
Even the blue states are mostly red outside the metro areas.
Just here on the left coast, the California inland valley, Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington are VERY red (just ask Jim Robinson).
How ‘bout we get all the red counties to secede. And then we impose a “naval” blockade on the “islands” of the Urban Archipelago. See how long they last before capitulating. After all, it’s not like the British or the Prussians can come to their aid these days!
Know what you mean. I live just south of San Francisco. Waiting for my daughter to grow up and go away to college so I can move to Wyoming or Montana or Eastern OR or Idaho (not that I’m in a hurry, she’s already growing up too fast!)
You missed the main point of the problem.
The parasite requires a host.
Welcome to the new world order.
You should just post the document that our founding fathers gave us to reference in just this type of situation. It is the Bill of Rights.
The Communists just took over our finance industry, the worlds largest insurance company and the two largest mortgage lenders.
Unless we the People stop this now we are doomed to generations of slavery.
Who is John Galt?
Dear Sarah,
It’s obvious that your partner is not going to go after this guy...And let’s face it... this is your shining moment, as I doubt you’ll ever resurface if your team loses...
So, please. Please for all of us here at FR who have pulled our hairs out, agoninizing over McCain’s passivity.
GO AFTER THESE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ask him about his foreign donors...his ties to radicals...his plan to increase our taxes...his association with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...
Have someone ask you if you use an ear piece during debates. And then answer that you don’t, but you know that it’s used and you see nothing against it...
Tell the media about Obama’s tax returns...where he’s heavily invested in Oil companies who do business in Iran...
Have someone ask you about Obama’s birth certificate...PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And say that you’re SURE that the FBI has vetted ALL the candidates....
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE....!!!
If you’re in this to win...then let’s win...
nikos
I’ve long thought that our system of states should evolve into a system of states and city-states. For instance, it makes no sense for ultra-liberal western Washington (about 1/4 of the land area) and conservative eastern Washington to be in the same state. Western Washington should consist of the city-stage of Seattle, and eastern should be the one called “Washington”.
/pipe dream
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