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It is simple to check the premise of the
presentation linked below this paragraph and to do the math - no calculator
needed, just common sense. Is it better to feel like we are a good,
compassionate country as we fall into an age old trap or to honor our Founding
Fathers by using the protections which they gave US and the warnings which
they wrote to protect US from soft tyranny?
http://www.staged.com/video?v=Klmb#comments
"In general the
art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party
of the citizens to give to the other" - - Voltaire (17 64)
The math doesn't add up and that is why we were
created as a Representative Republic - men are not angels. This
destructive strategy has gone on for a very long time. Note the decline
of America as an example of what a free people can accomplish verses the graph
of dependency presented in the linked presentation above. There is a way
to reverse it. The decrease in our position on the economic freedom
index
http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking
gives a reason why we have yet to recover from
this recession, just as FDR's policies prolonged our recovery from The Great
Depression. The government collects less revenue as it increases
regulation and tax rates. “I say after eight years of this Administration
we have just as much unemployment as when we started. ... And an enormous debt
to boot!” -- Henry Morgenthau Jr.—pal, lunch companion and
loyal secretary of the Treasury to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
"The national
budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the
authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments
must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again
learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." -- Marcus Tullius
Cicero, 55 BC Quotation #23141 from Rand Lindsly's Quotations
The promotion of dependency is an assault on
America using the well intentioned, naive American as a weapon against a unique
form of government. Cloward and Piven, contributors to the Progressive
strategy, suggested increasing demands upon the system to the point of creating
such a financial crisis that the government can be transformed into a
collective form. We have more warning of this now than we did of the Fannie-Freddie
2008 collapse and that was predicted years before it happened.
You cannot help the
poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen
the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about
prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the
wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the
brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build
character and courage by taking away men’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help men
permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.—Abraham
Lincoln
The acceptance speeches of Reagan and of Obama
gave US a preview of the results of their term in office. Our country’s
future depends upon US holding our leaders accountable.
“We
should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how
many are added.” - Ronald Reagan
Is there any
explanation for the nationwide, aggressive campaign to recall Governor Scott
Walker after he turned Wisconsin around other than the Collective care more
about their power than the pain and suffering their fight to keep power
inflicts upon the people?
