A post by Maynard
In these trying times, all too many of our fellow citizens seem ready or even anxious to surrender their hard-won heritage of liberty and individual freedom to the dictates of the fools and scoundrels in Washington. I’m posting these two quotes to remind us of what we’re in danger of losing, and what we would get in exchange.
With all [our] blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow
—Thomas Jefferson, founder of the Democrat party, at his 1st Inaugural, 1801
We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong … somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises … 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 Morganthau, FDR’s Treasury Secretary, 1939
Oh My Goodness… how appropriate those quotes are to this moment in history. Powerful and profoundly true, but completely lost on the White House and the United States Capital.
“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt
should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and
controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest
Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on
public assistance.”
—- Cicero – 55 BC
And Cicero was ignored also.
The problem is, Maynard, that the Left has taken those words of Thomas Jefferson and proclaimed that they mean that it’s actually transnational corporations that steal from the mouth of labor, the bread it has earned. And that the government is obliged to take it back.
Beautiful post, Maynard. The Left has truly destroyed everything great and beautiful about classical liberalism….and now they have control over our country. It’s really scary. I really hope America will be able to recover from the Left’s brutal assaults on her. They’re really doing severe damage though and I try to remain positive but sometimes I see the damage being done as irreversible.
Another thing I wanted to say is that this post is also a great reminder of how real history means nothing to the Left. History according to the Left is just that – according to them. They’re very disillusioned. They would never listen to and learn from what FDR’s Treasury Secretary had to say about spending. They have their own distorted vision of what America should be and that’s that.
This is exactly why I consider myself to be a libertarian. The more the government creates entitlements, the more people will feel entitled. Once the earning class looks around and sees they’ve nothing left to lose, — they’re gonna lose it!
Jefferson wrote a private letter to the Danberry Baptist Association mentioning a “Wall of separation between church and state” which the left in this country gives a tremendous amount of weight to yet they do not give any weight to a major public address by the same man calling for a limited govt. which does not overly involve itself in the affairs of the people.