I can’t believe Obama’s hubris. He is comparing the federal government to
Apple? I can say with all honesty, Apple
has never threatened to penalize me for not buying one of its products, or
harass me with a thug agency to ensure I’m in compliance with its in-house
operating procedures. Besides if Apple
ran its company like the federal government, they wouldn’t be in business.
And what in the hell does this guy know what
America is about? If anything Obama’s
ideology is the antithesis of what this country once stood for. Here is an excerpt from The Works of John
Adams. It seems to me our founding father was trying to warn us of people like Mr. Obama.
CHAPTER 16|Document 15
John Adams, Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the
United States
1787Works 6:8--9
Suppose
a nation, rich and poor, high and low, ten millions in number, all assembled
together; not more than one or two millions will have lands, houses, or any
personal property; if we take into the account the women and children, or even
if we leave them out of the question, a great majority of every nation is
wholly destitute of property, except a small quantity of clothes, and a few trifles
of other movables. Would Mr. Nedham be responsible that, if all were to be
decided by a vote of the majority, the eight or nine millions who have no
property, would not think of usurping over the rights of the one or two
millions who have? Property is surely a right of mankind as really as liberty.
Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion,
would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on
the industrious; but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise
would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in
dividing all the property among them, or at least, in sharing it equally with
its present possessors. Debts would be abolished first; taxes laid heavy on the
rich, and not at all on the others; and at last a downright equal division of
every thing be demanded, and voted. What would be the consequence of this? The
idle, the vicious, the intemperate, would rush into the utmost extravagance of
debauchery, sell and spend all their share, and then demand a new division of
those who purchased from them. The moment the idea is admitted into society,
that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a
force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If
"Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were
not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every
society, before it can be civilized or made free.
The
idle, the vicious, the intemperate; sounds like the Democratic Party to me.
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