I recently got the following from a NH Republican House Legislator (who asked for anonymity) lamenting our “political elite” on both sides of the aisle. You know, like NH State Rep Kris Roberts (D): “Government has to protect us from our own stupidity.” However, this is about the Republicans.
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Self-Reliance
Given the Choice, Government Will Choose What is Best for Government
Politicians always want to be seen as “doing something” for you in order to “buy” your vote. And the electorate has been conditioned to believe that Government MUST be in the loop of life, else we’d all DIE!
Intervention From the Heavens
Just when the Washington creatures were ready to spend another $3 trillion the lights came on. We don’t need the extension of weekly central government supplements to unemployment benefits. We need to go back to work. The economic data came forth showing Americans are getting back to work in record numbers.
Notable Quote: Their Faith is in The Legislator, Ours is in Mankind
I am, I confess, one of those who think that choice and impulse ought to come from below and not from above, from the citizen and not from the legislator; and the opposite doctrine appears to me to tend to the destruction of liberty and of human dignity.
But by a deduction as false as it is unjust, do you know what economists* are accused of? It is, that when we disapprove of government support, we are supposed to disapprove of the thing itself whose support is discussed;
Plainly spoken concerning the War on Women – “You’re kidding me; go get a job!”
We previously had “Mythology 101: Imaginary War on Women” by Sue DeLemus and Jane Cormier. Now, US Congressman Joe Walsh sums up and answers this overgrown “forever” student with a riff on “hey, try being self-reliant for a change”: I think that it is hilarious that CREDO SuperPAC has put this video out there – … Read more