How Obama Portends an End to Self-Determinism

Pajamas Media ^ | September 4 | David A. Eisenberg

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What is so galling about Obama’s platitudes is not that they are hollow and made to sound sententious, but that they are flagrantly duplicitous. When he proclaimed in his inaugural address that “the question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works,” one could dismiss it as nothing more than empty rhetoric. But when every day thereafter is spent not addressing the question of whether it works but rather how government can be further and further aggrandized, the president’s platitudes can not be taken so lightly. The question of whether it works has yet to be answered, but still the government grows at an alarming rate.

This should be especially alarming for a people who once possessed the inestimable virtue of having little need for government.

When America’s most perspicuous observer toured this country, he was struck by the ostensible absence of any central administration. Tocqueville understood that the seat of government was found in Washington and that each state had its capital, but as he traveled the fledgling nation, the presence of a central authority remained wholly impalpable....

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“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who
are
> evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it”
> —Albert Einstein