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Don't Know Much About History?

It has been said that debt is only a substitute for the chains and whip of the slave master. So why is it that our new president and the Democrat Congress want to borrow massive amounts of money from China to give a $500.00 check to people who do not pay taxes so they can go to a big box store and buy produces made in China?For all our new presidents intellect there seems to be a lack of history in his most recent decisions.Should Mr. Obama’s educational stimulus package include a provision promoting Chinese as America’s second language so our children will be able to speak with their landlords?It is astounding that the American taxpayer has been betrayed by its government into slavish debt to Red China, a state that is neither a friend nor ally but a savvy adversary.It has been known for millennia that, “A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy,” Publilius Syrus, (Roman author, 1st century B.C.)One has to wonder what they are smoking in the Rose Garden, everyone (except Washington economist) know you cannot borrow your way out of debt.Thomas Jefferson said, “…to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.”What is most troubling however is there seems to be a willful ignorance as to the moral implications of borrowing and lending. Our nation’s hunger for instant gratification is the root cause of this financial crisis and a thorough cleansing of our national soul is surely needed.Credit, after all, is based on the trustworthiness of a borrower. If the lender fears he will not be repaid then the lender has reason to not lend. Moreover, if the lender expects to be repaid with his own tax dollars the lender has every incentive to not lend because this is little more than government redistribution of wealth.January saw U.S. employers eliminate 598,000 jobs, the most since the end of 1974. Yet the majority of the so-call stimulus package does little to address job creation.However, the proper solution to job creation is an infusion of capital into the markets. A wonderful side-effect of failing businesses is that many times it opens an opportunity for smaller start-up to take their place thus infusing the economy with jobs created by entrepreneurs and innovators who find new solutions to new problems and bring them to market.To encourage capital investment the Obama administration should lower the risk of investment by cutting capital-gains taxes or even eliminate them for the next four years. This one act would bring stimulus, hope and change into the economy.Is this not what Obama promised? Yet, all we hear out of Washington is the congressional equivalent of Chicken Little, “The sky is falling!”The trillion-dollar stimulus in its current form seems to be predicated on big government, give-a-ways and a lack of moral judgment.“Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people” or so said, Wendell Phillips.
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  • John. I have heard many a complaint from Britishers about not being able to find a "decent cup of tea" here in the States. And so, because of this, since I have grown up here in the States, I wonder: "Have I ever even had a decent cup of tea" here? I have tried a "hot cup of tea" here a number of times, but, I was un-impressed, and have decided that coffee is best. I have had Chinese tea at restaurants, but was definitely bored with that. And so, I ask you: Is there a way for me to enjoy a good cup of home brewed English Tea here in the States? I sincerely would like to try it, for certainly, after all I have read about the Brits enjoying their tea and making sure that the "tea time is not to be missed", no doubt said Tea must be extraordinarily wonderful! Is there any tea that I can buy and a recipe that you recommend that will lead me into this wonderful tea experience? I remember a brand called "Tetley Tea". Would this be a good brand to try? Seriously, I am curious, and would like to experience the "British Tea Experience". Cream? No cream? Which is best?

    Kevin
  • Well all I know is that after living here 14 years I still cant get a decent cup of tea unless I buy it imported from Britain. Maybe when you guys threw it overboard you were trying to water it down because all the tea over here is so bloody weak.
    BTW never heard of tea bagging and from the last comment not sure I ever want to know what it means.
    Cheers and "bottoms up" LOL
  • I am sure many here do know the homosexual connotation of “Tea Bagging.”
    Is this yet another phase or word to be surrendered to our, “Gay,” brothers?
  • Hey George,
    I even sent a tea bag to Washington. Well I was going to send a tea bag till someone told me just to send the string and tag on the tea bag. There was a rumor that D.C. would think the tea bag could be dangerous.
  • This is a great article, if you are sick of the "out of control" taxing and spending of the US government!

    Today’s Tea Party Movement Has A Lot In Common With the Sons of Liberty

    By Peter Roff
    Senior Fellow, Institute for Liberty/Former Senior Political Writer, United Press International

    In just about a week, following the footsteps of other social movements that have changed America, thousands of ordinary citizens will be coming out on Tax Day — April 15 — to voice their complaints that the government is, once again, too big and taxes, spends and borrows too much.

    These modern day “Tea Partiers,” while not dressed in American-Indian garb like some of their patriot forefathers had been, nonetheless have as their inspiration one of this continent’s earliest but still best known acts of public disobedience: The Boston Tea Party of 1773.

    The people who will take to the streets next week to protest the actions of the federal government have just as much right to complain as the people did in 1773.

    The tax, which was originally imposed to help keep revenues flowing to the British East India Company, which suffered economic hardship because of smuggled Dutch tea, eventually became a metaphor for the idea that people should not be taxed without their consent, which could be gained only through their own elected representatives in the national government. Today we refer to that as “taxation without representation” and, as Saturday morning’s “Schoolhouse Rock” taught those of us of a certain vintage, “it’s not fair.”

    But more than that, the tax on tea — and other goods — was for the benefit of the British crown and for British commercial interests, much in the same way that the federal bailout of certain financial firms, who got themselves into the mess they are in because of government interventions in the marketplace, have come to symbolize the way Washington favors Wall Street over Main Street.

    Back in 1773 a group of colonists called the “Sons of Liberty,” led by the firebrand Samuel Adams, marched out of a Boston tavern to dump chests of imported tea — which could not be unloaded due to the public outcry over the tea tax — over the sides of three British ships into Boston Harbor.

    Adams and the Sons of Liberty risked arrest, and possible hanging, had they been caught. Today, their act would probably also be considered a crime against “Mother Earth” – and would no doubt also prompt an investigation by the federal Environmental Protection Agency as well as the FBI and the Boston Police. But the people who will take to the streets next week to protest the actions of the federal government have just as much right to complain as the people did in 1773.

    The taxes that were imposed back then were felt, by King George III, his prime minister and many in the British Parliament to have been fair and just. After all, it was the British army that protected the colonies from invaders — memories of the recently concluded French and Indian War still being fresh in the minds of many — and it was only right that the colonists paid their fair share of the cost. And, in fact, the Conciliatory Resolution of 1775 ended taxation for any colony that choose to carry the burden of imperial defense and the upkeep of British officers on its own. But that was too little too late and the American Revolution began shortly thereafter.

    No one in the modern Tea Party movement is arguing that the taxes, the spending and the borrowing that has thus far been the hallmark of Obama and the Congressional Democrats’ plan for America amounts to taxation without representation. But they will argue that the larger principle, that the federal government’s current largess is unfair is very much a matter for discussion. Why? Because Washington has obligated all of us, and our children, to pay the costs of cleaning up a mess largely created by government in the first place — just as King George III looked to the colonies to help fund his global competition with the French monarchy. And, again just like King George III, Obama and the Democrats want to make us believe they are doing it for our own good and in our own best interests.

    And, just like our forefathers in the Sons of Liberty, the metaphorical tea is headed straight to the bottom of the Harbor.
  • Amen John, couldn't agree more with ya. As we turn our eyes off of Jesus Christ, God and the Bible we turn from freedom to bondage. The U.S.A. was the most free country in the world until it turned from God to man, i.e. government. Israel did the same though out the old test. I guess it's just human nature, in bad times we turn to God and in good times we forget him. What a trip.
  • Reality Check
    My first response to this blog (in its pre-gambling days) was to make a comment that whenever the world goes through some great crisis the remedy always takes the world one step closer to towards some form of geo-political control.
    In the news today China is now calling for a new world currency. Search the web and you will see many reports on it. Although it is widly being rejected it is a start, and it may take many years to come about but just like the homosexual comunity began to demand their "rights" and continued to do so and are now such an accepted part of society and culture that your the evil one for saying its wronge so down the road this will now be pushed again and again until it becomes reality. The Devil does not give up, The world is on a direct path towards the rule of the Anti-Christ.
    This is once again a reality check that our only hope is in God and His son Jesus Christ.

    God Bless
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  • "Yeah, I got yer stimulation right heah!"

    (Spoken with Frankie Piluso's heavy Bronx accent.)
  • Little did I realize that when I embedded this video here in this post, that Hope had originally posted it on The Way Corps site on February 6th.
    It's good stuff...thanks Hope for getting it on this site.

    Love and blessings!
    George
  • Thank you all for the comments.
    I do love a good debate as well; too bad all the Pubs have become PC. Again my goal is to be a part, to contribute and to foster conversation that will perhaps lead to learning or at least a good time.
    In the spirit of the new president, I will add, “Stimulate this!”
    Blessings all around
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