Tuesday, January 31, 2012

CBO: Taxes Will ‘Shoot Up by More Than 30 Percent’ Over Next 2 Years | CNSnews.com

CBO: Taxes Will ‘Shoot Up by More Than 30 Percent’ Over Next 2 Years | CNSnews.com

CBO real un-employment numbers: For 2012-2022 Released, Says Real Unemployment Rate Is 10% | ZeroHedge

Latest Congressional Budget Outlook For 2012-2022 Released, Says Real Unemployment Rate Is 10% | ZeroHedge

Florida Snake Problems: Pythons apparently wiping out Everglades mammals

My Way News - Pythons apparently wiping out Everglades mammals

Do they EVER offer different solutions?: O’Malley Talks About Applying Sales Tax To Gas « CBS Baltimore

O’Malley Talks About Applying Sales Tax To Gas « CBS Baltimore

Sunday, January 29, 2012

George Washington: People who govern should consider future generations in decisions

It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.

George Washington, letter to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, September 5, 1789

Forget global warming - it's Cycle 25 we need to worry about (and if NASA scientists are right the Thames will be freezing over again) | Mail Online

Forget global warming - it's Cycle 25 we need to worry about (and if NASA scientists are right the Thames will be freezing over again) | Mail Online

George Washington must have known a few Democrats

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796

George Washington: Men allowed to pursue profit, can achieve anything

A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.

George Washington, letter to Benjamin Harrison, October 10, 1784

Thomas Paine: Every generation needs to take care of its own problems

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 1, December 19, 1776

Thomas Paine: Guard Liberty for all

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Thomas Paine, Dissertation on First Principles of Government, December 23, 1791

James Madison: Charity has no place in Government: States power more broad than Federal

[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

James Madison, speech in the House of Representatives, January 10, 1794

James Madison: Too much Government power, makes people into slaves

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

James Madison, essay in the National Gazette, March 27, 1792

James Madison: Congress shouldnt appropriate money for worthless reasons

There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises. To say that the United States should be answerable for twenty-five millions of dollars without knowing whether the ways and means can be provided, and without knowing whether those who are to succeed us will think with us on the subject, would be rash and unjustifiable. Sir, in my opinion, it would be hazarding the public faith in a manner contrary to every idea of prudence.

James Madison, Speech in Congress, April 22, 1790

James Madison: People must be vigilant about choosing politicians

Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea, if there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.

James Madison, speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 20, 1788

James Madison: Free Commerce is better without Government interference

I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic — it is also a truth, that if industry and labour are left to take their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive, and this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out.

James Madison, speech to the Congress, April 9, 1789

James Madison: Individual Private Property Rights

Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government which impartially secures to every man whatever is his own.

James Madison, Essay on Property, March 29, 1792

James Madison: Federal Government encroachment on State Government authority

But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm... But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity.

James Madison, Federalist No. 46, January 29, 1788

Saturday, January 28, 2012

John Adams warns, a Democracy can quickly change into Anarchy!

Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.

John Adams, An Essay on Man's Lust for Power, August 29, 1763

John Adams on Private Property Rights

The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If `Thou shalt not covet' and `Thou shalt not steal' were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free.

John Adams, A Defense of the American Constitutions, 1787

John Adams thoughts about Government

Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.

John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776

Samuel Adams, Calls Patriots to Duty!

"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
-- Samuel Adams (1722–1803)

Yemeni Leader Arrives in U.S. for Medical Treatment - NYTimes.com

Yemeni Leader Arrives in U.S. for Medical Treatment - NYTimes.com

FLASHBACK SHOCK: New York Times, at one time, editorialized against Income Taxes!!

"When men get in the habit of helping themselves to the property of others, they cannot easily be cured of it."
-- The New York Times, in a 1909 editorial opposing the very first income tax!

Government was never supposed to be used as a charity!!

In a famous incident in 1854, President Franklin Pierce was pilloried for vetoing an extremely popular bill intended to help mentally ill. The act was championed by the renowned 19th century social reformer Dorothea Dix. In the face of heavy criticism, Pierce countered: "I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for the public charity." To approve such spending, argued Pierce, "would be contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded."

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Barack Obama...John Adams would like a word with you!

"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American Constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society." ~ John Adams, Novanglus Letters, 1774

Dear Lord..These men were brilliant! They have pegged American Society, today!


Fight these people who would destroy our Nation!

Jess
Blog: Politically Thinking
Twitter: @gopthinking

How to fight liberals: Imitate them - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com

How to fight liberals: Imitate them - Ben Smith - POLITICO.com

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Taxpayer Rip Off: GM deal moves electric car development to China -- a 'shakedown'?

GM deal moves electric car development to China -- a 'shakedown'?

America will fail because we are ignorant of history, thus doomed to repeat it!

Over 200 years ago, Professor Alexander Tytler wrote, "A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of Government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess (money or benefits)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."


John Adams, in a letter written to John Taylor, April 15, 1814... "Remember, Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, & murders itself. There never was a democracy yet, that did not commit suicide."



Wow!! I have always heard the saying, "Those who do not know history, are doomed to repeat it." After reading that, it made it hit home. The system, America has, its been around before..They are no more!

Question is...What will you and I do about this? Leave some comments!

Thanks, Jess
Blog: Politically Thinking
Twitter:@gopthinking

Price Control Failures: Four Thousand Years of Price Control - Thomas J. DiLorenzo - Mises Daily

Four Thousand Years of Price Control - Thomas J. DiLorenzo - Mises Daily

Planned Parenthoods Annual Report: Got $487.4M in Tax Money, Did 329,445 Abortions | CNSnews.com

Planned Parenthoods Annual Report: Got $487.4M in Tax Money, Did 329,445 Abortions | CNSnews.com