What I posted are the roots. Americans don’t like big government because that means big power. We don’t trust power anywhere but in ourselves. That’s why conservatives have guns. Really good conservative, and Southerners, have whole big bunches of guns. And ammo. Cause we don’t really trust anybody else to defend us.
And, it is very traditional to dislike big banks. Look at the founding fathers. Look at Andrew Jackson. Look at us now, raising h*ll about the bailout because there is a big part of us that don’t give a d*mn about Goldman Sachs, and wishes it flatly would fall off the face of the earth. Look at the Tea Party.
Listen to Andrew Jackson (a somewhat shy and meek Southerner):
Every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add… artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society — the farmers, mechanics, and laborers — who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.
Andrew Jackson quotes:
Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves.
Andrew Jackson quotes:
You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the grace of the Eternal God, will rout you out.
Andrew Jackson quotes:
The Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests.
parsy, who couldn’t agree more....
I’d like to see some of Jackson’s shyness and meekness take hold in congress these days.