Posted on 02/01/2010 9:54:10 AM PST by neverdem
Looser than what?
Looser: Comparative form of loose: more loose
Loser: One that fails to win: the losers of the game
“But a funny thing happened on the way to the next revolution.”
A good article. Renewal of teaching the basics of the Founding is way overdue, neglected as it has been at least during this curmudgeon’s memory. It will require tremendous effort just to recover lost ground to the time of the ‘cold war’, much less the beginning of the slide. But it has been a startling reawakening this last year as witness the impotence of a filibuster proof congress and socialist administration to force legislation upon an unsupportive and aroused electorate. Keep it up.
Bookmarked 4 later.
Big BUMP...
I get tired of these articles that lump Teddy Roosevelt in with all of these early 20th century progressives. The only thing this article attributes to TR is the passage of the food and drug act.
Agree completely. TR advocated steady, mild progression when necessary to avoid abrupt, radical change.
I agree that while he was President, he pretty much followed McKinley’s line, but he turned way left in 1910.
If you're an auto manufacturer, you want to sell more cars, right? What if you are a lender ie banker? Well, you want to sell more loans (lend money). And as it turns out, the biggest customers of all are the respective nation-states.
What better way to fatten your wallet than to tap into the one entity that carries the force of law to confiscate private property in order to satisfy its debts to you, the banker? Answer: there isn't one; it's the best there is if you're a banker.
So here we have a marriage made in hell. Dewy eyed 'progressives' weeping over the oppressed, including women, child, minorities, the poor and whoever else. And then we have coldly calculating bankers who clearly understand the financing requirements the states needed to impose via taxes, regulations and other means to collect wealth from private parties to pay for all this "progress".
I also disagree with the author's primary thesis that Hussein over-reached & that public sentiment has now turned against him. Barry would have been successful if it weren't for the fact that the credit-leverage system has reached its terminal state of collapse. It's been expanding at an unsustainable rate for some time now, but now the bill is coming due.
We will get a restoration of the original Republic not through some enlightened return of voter common sense, but through the imposition of the harshest task master of all: economic collapse. Like the USSR, the time is coming when there won't be any there, there.
I agree with your post. Damn that...
btt
Holy Carp! I popped a double-tap on the "o"
That is hugh. Series, even.
I am in shock. Crushed, I am telling you.
"What a looser!"
uhh, you don't think...
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“Loose those arrows me bowmen.”
And the Loosers loosed their arrows. But alas, they fell beyond the enemy and the loosers were the losers.
Loose women? Gotta read that one again.
You are having a great day with this post aren't you! ;-)
There is no reason for optimism, this Republic will fall
The Founders were adamant about not granting the franchise to morons, women, those under 21, and non tax payers.
The politicians failed to heed their warning, and all of those groups have now been enfranchised via Constitutional amendment and are the reason this Republic cannot possibly endure.
The enemies of Freedom are all around us, the 50 % of Americans that continue vote Democrat.
A populace that likes bright shiny objects, that swings wildly between left and right but the damage inflicted when the nation lurches left is never repaired, an electorate that gave the maniac algore the popular vote in 2000, elected Bill Clinton twice, and now puts a communist crypto-muslim in the White House is a populace and nation that has only darkness and despair on the horizon.
This Republic will fall, as the non taxpayers will continue to support those politicians who will redistribute money in exchange for votes.
Lets hope that in the new one that rises from its ashes, only taxpayers and veterans are entrusted to have a say on who may govern.
bump for later read
It started off a little slow but it's “defiantly” getting better...
:-)
Is that Freeper Island in the distance?
Well I have troll hunters all over me today so I have had better days too.
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