Filed under: Health Care, Politics, Socialism, Statism | Tags: Alexander Tytler, Benjamin Franklin, Democrat Corruption, Democrat lies, Obama, Socialism, Thomas Jefferson
Happy Dependence Day!
Mark Steyn sums up my feelings well, with far fewer expletives. Read his piece. I know many people don’t understand how destructive this bill is. Steyn’s piece is a good starting place. We can either be a nation of free independent people, or we can be a nation of welfare recipients. We cannot be both. It doesn’t work. Our founders (and others) understood what Obama and the rest of the socialists do not:
“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
~ Benjamin Franklin
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.”
~ Alexander Tytler
Obama and the Democrats have just lurched us towards decline. We were a very abundant, very generous nation. Democrats and Obama are using greed and selfishness to try to skip straight to dependency, Dependency on Democrats. It truly is evil.
I’ll write more when I recover my optimism. The Elephant’s Child chose today to have computer problems. She’ll hopefully be back tomorrow.
Until then, America WILL overturn or repeal this. If not because we still cherish liberty, than at least because the punishment in higher premiums, higher costs, higher taxes, less employment, less opportunity will start long before any supposed benefits.
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Some Democrats are convinced once we get
Obamacare we will like it!
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20000862-503544.html
once I understand it?
On the other side of the isle , it’s Repeal it.
http://senateconservatives.com/repeal
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2010/03/opposing-view-it-must-be-repealed.html
repeal and replace with real reform.
Comment by Ron spins March 22, 2010 @ 8:54 am
Hope you get things fixed in a hurry,we need you here!
Comment by Patrick Sperry March 22, 2010 @ 9:02 amA picture I got from Moonbattery.
http://n2.nabble.com/Reform-td4781710.html#a4781710
Comment by Ron spins March 22, 2010 @ 6:21 pmThanks Patrick!
Ron, I love that elephant! Hes a fountain that I’ve come across before in my various searches for elephant pictures and he always makes me smile. Let’s just hope the caption is correct and that we can repeal this dictatorial bill.
Comment by American Elephant March 23, 2010 @ 6:52 pm