Posted on 08/23/2009 7:08:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I think you are on the right track by honing in on taxes. When those leeches in DC figured out how to tax and withhold, it was the beginning of the end for the electorate’s say over their own lives. The current bunch is the most arrogant and dismissive yet. Pelosi is right out of a bad dream.
Good post, I think the author makes an excellent point about Bush governing as he said he would. In fact, Bush made an honest effort to “change the tone” and be “bi-partisan”, but it did not survive the actions he took after 9/11.
And for that I don’t blame Bush, but the left and the dems. They saw Bush becoming very popular and they determined that he must be destroyed. Not that Bush doesn’t deserve some blame for his own failures, but mostly he deserves blame for not fighting back against the campaign of hatred against him, which started before he ran for re-election.
I really thought on 9/11 that we’d never have a democratic president again in my lifetime, now we have the big O. He’s enough of a left wing, soft on terror, soft on crime, democrat for 3 lifetimes at least.
Hopefully after him we’ll be done with them.
Excellent.
Citizens need to take back both Academe and the media, as well as Washington. And unfortunately, Until Citizens take back both Academia and the media, a corrupt Washington may continue in power a while longer. Tho' the Zippo may be setting fire to himself a bit quicker than his puppetmaster intended.
That's Three enemies.
I was curious about the Paine quote and have been searching, but have not been able to find any context or source for the qoute.
“We have two enemies to freedom in this country today - Liberal communist politicians and their enabling media.
I believe that’s wrong. The two enemies are:
1) Liberal communist politicians and their enabling media, and
2) The current GOP leadership.
What say you?”
I believe that there is a number three that should be more prominent that either of the first two.
It’s the bureaucracy. Or, literally, “government by desks”, the faceless people who run the various organizations of government. These are the ones who literally feed off of the life blood of our nation. Taxes on our productivity.
And quite frankly it’s obvious if you just stand back and look at it. They enforce the laws and make regulations. And lately they are the ones who have been proposing newer laws in conjunction with the Mega-industries.
Keep something small and you can manage it. Once it becomes large it becomes slow, lethargic and unmanageable. This applies to business as well as government.
You are correct, how many time has it been discovered that lines have been changed in laws and bills and some faceless bureaucrat did it and never was held accountable. Government has grown to the point were someone can walk the halls of congress for twenty years carrying a damn clip board and never do a damn thing and retire at 80 grand are more per year. They been doing that in the pentagon for a long time now.
This is an excellent article that needs to be distributed far and wide. I’ll do my share.
bttt
“The government needs to relearn its place.”
I believe that message is beginning to resonate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rRE5UK6NQU
Thanks.
That Marine kicked butt!
Paine was the most radical of all the Founders. He took on everyone.
Not to sound like a curmudgeon or anything, but as a member of the 28%, I actually listened to what the man said and had said in the past, and saw no reason to doubt that he would be exactly what he has shown himself to be.
The article dances amid bromides and refuses to state a single actual principle.
The people want all the hopey changee good stuff without any of the mean paying for it. Then they can't understand why the glad handing pols fail to give them both.
If the people don't want to pay for the boondoggles, all they have to do is vote for men promising to zero them all out. Instead they smear every such person as mean or as a hypocrite and vote for the hopey changee liars.
It is reality that the populace can't handle, not the pols. Sure the pols are no better. But realism is nowhere to be found among the politically powerful, whether pols or the even more powerful voters.
A few experts know what is actually feasible, and everyone dumps on them and calls them names.
At bottom, the frustration is simply this - political power cannot avoid reality in the slightest particular. But men are interested in it for nothing else than escaping from reality.
And, my comment to the "Buyers Remorse" Obama brain dead voters still stands. There are Millions of them, and they should be shamed.
Fair enough?
‘Tis not the concern of a day, a year, or an age; posterity are virtually involved in the contest, and will be more or less affected even to the end of time, by the proceedings now. Now is the seed-time of Continental union, faith and honour. The least fracture now will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters.
“The current GOP leadership”
Who would that be? What leadership?
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