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| Author: | rangerp [ Wed Oct 24, 2012 10:32 am ] |
| Post subject: | redistribution of wealth |
"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat in our drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labors and in our amusements, for our callings and our creeds...our people.. must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live.. We have not time to think, no means of calling the mis-managers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow suffers. Our landholders, too...retaining indeed the title and stewardship of estates called theirs, but held really in trust for the treasury, must...be contented with penury, obscurity and exile.. private fortunes are destroyed by public as well as by private extravagance. This is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering... And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." - Thomas Jefferson “Our Founders designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about change than I would like sometimes.” - B.H. Obama |
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| Author: | dguidry [ Wed Oct 24, 2012 11:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: redistribution of wealth |
The educated back in the day of T. Jefferson, could write so eloquently. |
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| Author: | rangerp [ Wed Oct 24, 2012 2:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: redistribution of wealth |
oops, this was supposed to go in the "politics" section, not the Christian one. |
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| Author: | Gigafowl [ Wed Oct 24, 2012 3:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: redistribution of wealth |
I'll throw in an - AMEN Fairplay and financial responsibility are taught in the Bible too ! ! ! |
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