Posted on 07/04/2012 9:34:48 PM PDT by Innovative
Can anyone honestly argue that our nation still honors the values, or practices the principles, for which our Founders fought?
Today, most Americans have been trained to be embarrassed by the "extremist" individualist ethos that made the protection of liberty the primary purpose of government. They have been taught to apologize for the shortcomings of the "rich white men" who led the revolution. A majority of Americans now subscribe to an expansive view of government as both great provider and beneficent leveler. Its primary purpose is to redress unequal or unhappy outcomes, regardless of their source, through wealth redistribution on a scale so vast that it mocks the concept "private property."
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You are free to leave at any time.
We will not build any walls to keep you in.
The LA Times had an other interesting editorial, that closed with:
” If enough Americans want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, they can do so by putting the law’s opponents in charge of Congress and the White House in November. Throwing out an incumbent for exerting too much power, after all, is the ultimate exercise in liberty.”
A Fourth of July debate: How much power to the people?
It doesn’t have any meaning anymore.
We pissed it away.
I thought to myself as I watched the Fireworks show down by the river tonight, as lovely as they were, that it would be more fitting if each work exploded into the image of Obama’s face with his chin arrogantly in the air.
That is where we are now.
God Help us.
yep,
That’s why we gave a Mus jackwagon in the white hut wanting to RULE America.
Hey, moonbat, you don't really want that. That would take away one more producer. If you lose too many, your Gov't checks will dissapear.
“We will not build any walls to keep you in.”
May one ask who “we” is?
Some of us want to clean out the commies and fags... you don’t mind do you?
LLS
I agree.
The Marxist currently occupying the White House needs to go.
You are free to leave at any time.....So are you newbie.
obama is just a pimple on a very infected face. The House and Senate and all Federal agencies are full of communists... and they must be purged.
LLS
“We will not build any walls to keep you in.”
May one ask exactly who “we” is?
“We will not build any walls to keep you in.”
Will you not say who “we” might be please.
Might it possibly involve “we” who are dressed in black shirts?
Just asking.
IMHO
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