Friday, December 28, 2012

Back to where we started

Many economists are saying that fiscal austerity is a very bad idea:


Unfortunately for us, big money managed to get their servant, Obama ad-Dajjal, re-elected as “our” President. And now he is going to put the screws to us.

Has anyone read the Declaration of Independence lately? Some of the complaints our ancestors had include the following:
  • He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
  • He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
  • He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
  • He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation.
  • For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.
  • For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States.
  • For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent.
  • For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury.
  • For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments.
  • He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
  • He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

It seems like we have many of the same problems today, or at least similar ones. What are we going to do about it? Debate? Wring our hands? Listen to Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the talking heads of TV? Call each other stupid?

We used to be a nation that rebelled against tyrants. Now we seem pleased to bow down to one. What's up with that?

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