Posted by
Blue Eagle Six on Saturday, November 29, 2008 12:52:11 PM
In 1964, in language that's just as apt today, Ronald Regan said:
In this vote harvesting time, they use terms like "Great Society," or [that] we must accept a "greater government activity in the affairs of the people"...Another voice says that the profit motive has become outmoded, it must be replaced by the incentives of the welfare state; or our traditional system of individual freedom is incapable of solving the complex problems of our country.
Senator Fulbright has said at Stanford University that the Constitution is outmoded. And Senator Clark defines liberalism as " meeting the material needs of the masses through the full power of centralized government." Well, I for one resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me-the free man and woman of this country- as "the masses."
But beyond that, "the full power of centralized government"-this was the very thing the Founding Fathers sought to minimize. A government can't control the economy without controlling the people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve it's purpose. You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.
As Rush Limbaugh writes:
We have the blueprint [of success] already-full-throated conservatism;works every time it's tried. Limited government. Low taxes. Strong military. Individual liberty. Rugged individualism. American exceptionalism. Preservation of the founding documents and the founding principles. Free markets, free speech, free people. The truth is, ther's only one "code word" in our lexicon : FREEDOM
Saturday, November 29, 2008 12:35:51 PM