The question is not are the SS and DHS different....Rather the $17 TRILLION question is...ARE WE THE PEOPLE DIFFERENT THAN OUR FOREFATHERS! The State of the Union...REVOLUTION If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. ~ Thomas Paine It is a time of Choosing...just as it was many times in our nations past. I sure hope we have the wisdom to choose wisely... Ronald Reagan on October 27, 1964 (from his nationally televised speech, which he called A Time for Choosing but was later simply referred to as The Speech, in support of candidate Barry Goldwater) 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 first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our childrens children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done. If all of this seems like a great deal of trouble, think whats at stake. We are faced with the most evil enemy mankind has known in his long climb from the swamp to the stars. There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States. Those who ask us to trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state are architects of a policy of accommodation. “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men are free.” March 31, 1976 (from his To Restore America speech, which included one of many references to his experiences during the Depression) No one who lived through the Great Depression can ever look upon an unemployed person with anything but compassion. To me, there is no greater tragedy than a breadwinner willing to work, with a job skill but unable to find a market for that job skill. Back in those dark depression days I saw my father on a Christmas eve open what he thought was a Christmas greeting from his boss. Instead, it was the blue slip telling him he no longer had a job. The memory of him sitting there holding that slip of paper and then saying in a half whisper, Thats quite a Christmas present, it will stay with me as long as I live. “It was leadership at home that gave us strong American influence abroad, and the collapse of imperial Communism. Great nations have responsibilities to lead, and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile, because they might just wind up lowering our flag.” “This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan for ourselves.” February 4, 1986 (from the State of the Union Address) Government growing beyond our consent had become a lumbering giant, slamming shut the gates of opportunity, threatening to crush the very roots of our freedom. What brought America back? The American people brought us back -- with quiet courage and common sense; with undying faith that in this nation under God the future will be ours, for the future belongs to the free. August 15, 1986 (in remarks to the White House Conference on Small Business) [G]overnments view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. September 25, 1987 (remarks in Arlington, Virginia) How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin. While the current President tells us we have lost our ambition, our motivation to make and keep America great, the need for his replacement becomes obvious to everyone.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 03:33:00 +0000
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