I ran across a great quote from Thomas Jefferson and I wanted to post it so I didn’t forget it. Each day, I want to ask myself the question: what am I doing to stop this imminent “..wretchedness and oppression…” that will come from our public debt problem? And I urge you to do the same. What what will you do to help save our country from economic ruin?
“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds…[we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers. …And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for[ another] …till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery… And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.”
— Thomas Jefferson
‘The statists have yet to reveal their deadliest servant’* in the fight against Liberty activists who want to cut deficits. The very thing that Liberty activists worship most slavishly The Federal Compact…the US Constitution:
Did you know?…. hidden in the text of that abomination of Liberty we have come to know as the “14th amendment,” is this little nugget of tyranny:
Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.
What most people can’t see, don’t see, or seem to gloss over is what it is actually saying.
Section 4. Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States…shall not be questioned.
You see, the 14th Amendment was adopted three years after Lincoln’s genocidal conquest of the Southern Confederates. The republicans had been comfortably ensconced for eight years by then, and had grown adept at “waving the bloody shirt,” inflaming the hoi polloi to vote with their emotions. They [the republicans] were (and are) big-government down to their very DNA.
And while, to be sure, they hated, and wanted to destroy the disenfranchised former Confederates… They had far bigger plans. Plans that involved debt, and a bunch of it. For as Lincoln said in 1832 “My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance. I am in favor of a national bank . . . the internal improvements system, and a high protective tariff.” (the internal improvement’s system is what we call “corporate welfare”).
Without wondering too far off track, it’s instructive to note that the republicans were the ideological heirs of the American whig party (think Henry Clay and his corrupt “American System”). The American whig party was, itself, the reincarnation of the Federalist party (think Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, John Adams, et al) The big-central-government liberals of the day. Remember, the “federalist papers” were nothing more than a sales brochure presented as editorials in big New York City papers. For those that doubt me, read Alexander Hamilton’s “report on manufactures” to see his economic ideals.
Appomattox led us to where we are, we are reaping the whirlwind of the republicans murderous deceit. Obama, though not to my liking, didn’t “take us down the road to socialism.” We’ve been on THAT road for 150 years. He is merely presiding over the death rattle of the free market.
*just couldn’t resist the LOTR reference.