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Lamenting The Lost Legacy Of Independence Day
Forbes ^ | July 4, 2012 | Bill Frezza

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dependenceday; elections; freedom; government; obama; obamacare; redistribution; taxes
Article hits the nail on the head. Worth reading it in its entirety.
1 posted on 07/04/2012 9:34:58 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

You are free to leave at any time.

We will not build any walls to keep you in.


2 posted on 07/04/2012 9:41:51 PM PDT by moonshot925
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To: moonshot925

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?

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-liberty-obama-government-power-20120704,0,5538178.story


3 posted on 07/04/2012 9:51:38 PM PDT by Innovative (None are so blind that will not see.)
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To: Innovative

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.


4 posted on 07/04/2012 9:54:33 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: chris37

yep,

That’s why we gave a Mus jackwagon in the white hut wanting to RULE America.


5 posted on 07/04/2012 10:21:15 PM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: moonshot925
You are free to leave at any time. We will not build any walls to keep you in.

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.

6 posted on 07/04/2012 10:51:59 PM PDT by snowtigger (.)
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To: moonshot925

“We will not build any walls to keep you in.”

May one ask who “we” is?


7 posted on 07/05/2012 4:10:14 AM PDT by ripley
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To: moonshot925

Some of us want to clean out the commies and fags... you don’t mind do you?

LLS


8 posted on 07/05/2012 4:37:44 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: LibLieSlayer

I agree.

The Marxist currently occupying the White House needs to go.


9 posted on 07/05/2012 4:44:40 AM PDT by moonshot925
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To: moonshot925

You are free to leave at any time.....So are you newbie.


10 posted on 07/05/2012 4:52:28 AM PDT by Safetgiver
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To: moonshot925

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


11 posted on 07/05/2012 5:26:40 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: ripley

“We will not build any walls to keep you in.”

May one ask exactly who “we” is?


12 posted on 07/05/2012 10:34:41 AM PDT by ripley
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To: ripley

“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


13 posted on 07/05/2012 4:13:31 PM PDT by ripley
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