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Taking our money is taking our freedom
Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009 | 2:02 a.m.
Joel Rector, in his Tuesday letter to the editor, asks what freedoms the tea party protesters lost that brought them to Washington on Saturday. It’s a fair question.
Here are a few more questions:
• How much of a mandate did voters give the present administration?
• Does a 7 percentage point advantage in the November election give the administration the right to ignore the rest of the electorate?
• Do we have the right to complain if the new president looked like a centrist, but governs from the left?
• Can we gripe when government spending drives the country into overwhelming debt?
• Did the majority of voters anticipate and want thousand-page bills that would be approved without debate?
Money is condensed freedom. When the government takes your money, it’s taking your freedom. We can live with that if we generally agree with the way it’s spent. If we don’t agree, we have the right and the duty to speak out.
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hey ed...
funny thing is...
where the hell were you clowns during the previous 8 years...
hmmm...
seems to me...
w the scum bag liar loser clown and cheney the evil doer inherited a budget surplus and a shrinking national debt...
however...
when they left office they left behind a $1.5 trillion deficit and had doubled the national debt...
so...
where the hell were you then buddy...
hmmm...
are you just slow...
I don't remember reading anywhere that money is "freedom', condensed or otherwise. I do remember something about rich men and camels and heaven and the eye of a needle, and I recall something about money and it not bringing you happiness, and also about it being the root of evil. So look at it this way, taking your money will make you happy, turn you into a good person and will make it easier for you to get through those golden gates.
You're welcome.
Birdie, the last 2 years we controlled by Democrats not Bush. Get your facts straight. Oh wait Oprah told them how to vote
StanG said: >>>>> So look at it this way taking your money will make you happy, turn you into a good person and will make it easier for you to get through those golded gates. Your welcome. (Unless your GOD you don't have the right to make that call) Also StanG: All those people that work and pay Americas bills are not the enemy. Learn how to fish StanG and stop asking the rest of us to hand you one everyday. GET IT!
Actually money is not the root of all evil. Government is the root of all evil. Look at the evil man living in the White House right now.
jlb101,
Please go see a mental health professional. You are sick to make such claims. At least that can be treated but your stupidity and ignorance apparently cannot.
mschaffero-You are the one who is sick. You and your stupid friends elect some bottom feeding socialist scum from the gutters of Chicago because you want free stuff. Obomer is another Hitler in disguise. You simply lack the intelligence to see it. You should study some history and you wouldn't come across as such a fool as your friend in the White House does.
"Does a 7 percentage point advantage in the November election give the administration the right to ignore the rest of the electorate?"
Truly, the republicans are kicking and screaming like schoolchildren. They LOST THE ELECTION but still think they should control the government!
It is with EXTREME ARROGANCE that those who LOST THE ELECTION, who still think they should dictate how our country is run!
Face it, republicans, the country threw you out of office, and for good reason. You failed in Iraq, you failed in Afghanistan, you destroyed our economy and you lost the respect of the American people.
Stan G, if that story was actually true, the Las Vegas Sun would be editorializing in favor of subsidies for R&D to make camels smaller and needles bigger.
Ksand, as I recall Democrats kicked and screamed and said the same thing in 2000 and again in 2004. The real problem is that the federal government has gotten too large for OUR own good. Centralizing that much power will only create bigger fractures in America in the future.
Taking my money IS taking my freedom along with many others who use tobacco products and are discrimminated against. When Obama, himself a smoker raised all of the tobacco products this time by 60% to pay for people who make Too Much Money to qualify for Medicare...this happened the same week that the tea parties started and there were many banners and protesters showing this at first...but they stopped because of the Haters. Now us senior citizens along with wounded war veterans and the military mostly, are paying the unheard of price of nearly $100. a carton, so don't feel bad if you And I have to pay additional money now for even soda going up to 10 cents an ounce in the near future. This is only the beginning! Where was the ACLU in all of this debaucle?
StanG -- actually money is really nothing more than 1) the confidence of the people in the economic system they live in, and 2) electrons on bank spreadsheets. The cash we think we're carrying are debt notes.
I highly recommend moneyasdebt.net (or its 8-part video on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_doYllBk5...) for enlightenment.
This crash has been long in coming. Why Wall Street and, more importantly, the feds' regulators, manifested as a panic when all that debt started to come due is the real evidence of how we've been tricked into this.
"Where was the ACLU in all of this debaucle?"
LOL! My cigarettes are too expensive, it's a violation of my civil liberties!?!
That Porsche is too expensive, it's a violation of my civil liberties!
You guys are off your rocker!
adrien:
You don't have to smoke. It's bad for your
health anyway.
Ed: Does a 7 percentage point advantage in the November election give the administration the right to ignore the rest of the electorate?
In a word YES!
Willie Tanner wrote: Does a 7 percentage point advantage in the November election give the administration the right to ignore the rest of the electorate?
In a word YES!
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It is not a democracy when the other party is ignored. When you have a one party rule, it can be described in one word. "Fascist"
"Fascist"
Reverend, did you happen to catch Mike's cartoon the other day?
http://www.lasvegassun.com/photos/2009/s...
"It is not a democracy when the other party is ignored. "
Probably the most foolish thing I've read this month! The Baucus bill is nothing more than a complete compromise of the Democratic plan for health care... a compromise made solely to beg for republican votes. The stimulus was similarly compromised by republicans. If anything, the Democrats have been compromising TOO MUCH.
The electorate gave them clear majorities in the House and Senate. You may want the will of the people ignored, but I think the election last year was a clear, decisive victory for a change in course.
ksand99,
I stand by my comment. It is history that teaches and not cartoons.
Well, then you must not be well-versed in history, either, Reverend, as you seemingly have no idea what fascism is or what it means.
Just exactly do liberals want and what are their goals?
Do you prefer a much larger federal government with more intrusion into your personal lives? Do you like seeing the free enterprise system eroded away? Do you believe fewer personal liberties will make us all better off? Do you look forward to having the government run the auto industry, the banking industry, the mortgage industry, the health care industry, etc, etc??? All of this at a cost of higher and higher taxes and a deficit that can never be brought under control?
Nothing demeaning intended here, I'd really like to hear from someone who will take my questions seriously.
larry:
We Libs want an end to the war, fair taxes,
affordable health care and better jobs.
Thats all we want.
and we also want your women ... nyahahahah
Thanks teamster. I think we have more common ground than we know. Imagine how we could reduce taxes if we cleaned up the corruption, waste, fraud and unnecessary programs in Washington.
Unfortunately, the Dems & Repubs are interchangeable. Last November we elected George W. Obama. Obama wasn't the first to run on a platform of change and then fit right in after the election. A strong third party and term limits would solve nearly all our differences. The constant hate talk between Dems & Repubs will never help any of us, I think you know that. Imagine what we could do if we all focused, together, on what we all want.
Any system funded by theft through taxation deserves to fail.
"We cannot solve today's problems with the same level of thinking which created them". -- Albert Einstein
Taxation is unpunished theft.