Mar

25

2009

Well, we ALL may be about to see a REAL BIG EXAMPLE, aren’t we Mike?

by Skip

UPDATE:  This says it rather well:

As comedian Jackie Mason  quipped recently,

"If I inherited a fire, does that mean I have to make the fire bigger and worse?"

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Well, I got a couple of comments on my Notable Quotes – Jerry Pournelle post.  It seems that part of that quotation stuck out:

…Republics stand until the citizens begin to vote themselves largess from the public treasury….

And our friend, Michael Kitch, left a bit of a comment:

Can you offer an example of a modern (say after 1500) "republic" that has undergone the experience described in the quotation? BTW, since Weimar succumbed to a myriad of other forces, it doesn’t count.

Well, the Weimar would have been one of my examples of the modern age…

Well, Mike, I have an idea that your Big Government Cousin, President Obama with his ideological bent of sharing the hard earned wealth of the productive members of society (as well as our children and grandchildren’s wealth), is certainly going to try to prove it true (from Heritage via InstaPundit):

Obama's budget

And yes, by voting for his campaign promises, citizens are voting the largesse of the treasury.  If Obama’s ideas, actuated by the voters putting him into office, go forward, there will be nothing in the Treasury…

God save us all….for Obama will not. I think that this also shows that for all of the carping that Obama is doing about "inheriting" a mess, his vaunted "fiscal responsibility" are just mere words…

Go ahead, Mike, be an apologist for Obama’s budget and deficit mess!  Tell me, with these staggering amounts of debt that can rise to 80% of GDP if it plays out, what condition will the US of A be in?

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by Skip Murphy

Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom (and how Government is taking that away from us). My fight, from a Conservative (with small "L" libertarian leanings) and evangelical Christian perspective, is with the Progressives that are forcing a collectivized and secular humanistic future upon us. As TEA Party activist, citizen journalist (and pundit!), my goal is to use the New Media to advance the radical notions of America's Founders back into our culture again.

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  • Michael Kitch

    I wasn’t apologizing for anything or anybody. I simply asked for an example and as usual when you are put in the position of supporting your rhetoric, you duck and hurl abuse. Grow up.

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