Posted by
Robert on Saturday, December 06, 2008 3:50:40 PM
Alexander Hamilton once wrote in the Federalist Papers #1 exactly what we are seeing in the world of polotics today. Here is what he wrote, I wonder if he knew just how close to the mark he really is:
we have already sufficient indications that it will happen in this as in all former cases of great national discussion. A torrent of angry and malignant passions will be let loose. To judge from the conduct of the opposite parties, we shall be led to conclude that they will mutually hope to evince the justness of their opinions, and to increase the number of their converts by the loudness of their declamations and by the bitterness of their invectives. An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power and hostile to the principles of liberty. An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will be represented as mere pretence and artifice, the stale bait for popularity at the expense of public good. It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is too apt to be infected with a spirit of narrow and illiberal distrust. On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten that the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the contemplation of a sound and well-informed judgment, their interests can never be separated; and that a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government. History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of despotism than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.
If this does not show what we are seeing and what we can expect in the future, then no one can come up with a working model of what is to come. It is up to those of us that believe in the vision of our Founding Fathers, in a free America, free of big government shoveing their nose into our lives. Punishing those that work hard and build something worthwhile and than taking those rewards to give to lazy, hanky stomping, panty peeing, nogoods that would rather live off of the government tit.
If Obama continues as he is going with these bailouts America will be so far in debt that it will take longer than the staated nineteen years (Article one section four of the Constitution) to pay our way out of this incredible debt. The Constitution states that the government may not incure a debt greater then can be paid off in the sitting generation or nineteen years. Much more and this debt will not be paid in the required time and therefore is unconstitutional.