Thomas Jefferson – quod erat demonstrandum (Q.E.D.)
1. To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.
2. The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
3. God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty…. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
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democracyRepublic will cease to exist …”… ‘democracy’ will persist, and destroy that which the founders created.
I notice how much the tax freeloaders went up under Bush/GOP majority 2001-2007.
Sooner or later you have to come to the conclusion that both parties are responsible for our economic collapse and stop only blaming Obama who rode out the collapse on Bush coattails.