When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both. James Dale Davidson
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. James Madison
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. James Madison
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. James Madison
“We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it,”
Nancy shit for brains.
“One of the strangest phenomena of our time, and one that will probably be a matter of astonishment to our descendants, is the doctrine which is founded upon this triple hypothesis: the radical passiveness of mankind,— the omnipotence of the law,—the infallibility of the legislator: this is the sacred symbol of the party that proclaims itself exclusively democratic.”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law
Only by understanding that the overwhelming majority of Americans have become almost hopelessly addicted to government intervention in their lives can we, as a society and as individuals, begin to get free and clean from that vice.
So long as any American’s position on the relationship between state and individual can be reduced to “Let’s just go back to the amount of socialism (and its necessary correlative theft from my fellow citizens) that I liked”, that American is just as deranged and just as pathetic as an alcoholic who, after a bad incident, vows to avoid hard liquor and only drink wine in the future.
Recovery is always possible, even for the most dissipated of addicts.
I know.
But recovery simply is impossible until the junkie gets honest with himself about what the real problem is and who is responsible for that problem.
Be honest, America.
The real problem is not the politicians. They’re just doing what a majority of your fellow citizens have directed them to do at the ballot box.
The real problem is the junkie’s mindset in most Americans — young, middle-aged, and senior varieities — that it is both possible and morally acceptable to get other people’s money for yourself via state-sponsored theft by taxation.
Until people understand that addiction, we’re doomed.
http://westernrifleshooters.blogspot.com/2009/04/junkies.html