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To: wastedpotential
Guess he never read the history of America's colonists from the early 1600's who endured suffering in order to enjoy liberty and opportunity in a new land, far away from the hand of a tyrant who could lay new taxes to eat away the products of their labors.

Perhaps a reading of Gov. Bradford's diary might enlighten his mind, which has been too much influenced by the likes of Mao, Marx, and Lenin, and too little with the real history of the development of the restraints on Presidents and Congresses built into the U. S. Constitution.

Such a reading of the experiments of the Jamestown Colony's with a "community of goods" (Bradford) and "leveling" (S. Adams), might allow him to understand that America tried and rejected the idea of communism and redistribution of the fruits of the labors of the producers in order to equalize results for the non-producers.

This aversion to what he referred to as "people of property and wealth" reveals both ignorance of the means of wealth creation and the naive notion that some imperfect people deciding how to use the hard-earned property of some persons in order to gain favor with those to whom they use that property to buy votes is an idea which never has brought success or happiness to a nation. Rather, it has allowed tyrants to become an elite class which destroys the rights of all.

38 posted on 07/05/2010 3:33:55 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: loveliberty2

99% of citizens at the time of the Declaration owned their own homes. They were small, poor independent workers, mostly farmers and craftsmen. They were not wealthy. Obama is a petulent liar and fraud to say otherwise.
How dare the President mock my ancestors with his disgusting lies. I am personally deeply offended by his outrageous distortions, lies and vulgar characterizations. His impeachment is a vital national necessity.


41 posted on 07/05/2010 3:40:09 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (He is the son of soulless slavers, not the son of soulful slaves.)
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