Government IS the problem!

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FREEDOM 101

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RNC SPEECH



Ronald Reagans speech at the 1964 RNC. (about 28 minutes)

[dukesix]

Yep. Always has been. Maybe people will finally see through all of this. Ronald Reagan has to be turning over in his grave.

Dukesix

[PaulR]

There is nothing more oppressive than a large governmental body. Every "evil" regime believed in complete governmental control.

[C.A.P. Flight Officer]

Do you think our government is more of a dictatorship than democracy?

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Originally Posted by C/Colonel

Do you think our government is more of a dictatorship than democracy?

NEITHER! The fact that you would even ask that question makes me weep for the future of our nation. I don't know what they're teaching (or perhaps more correctly, what they're NOT teaching) in schools today, but America is not now, nor has it ever been a "democracy", and IMNSHO, anyone who refers to America as a "democracy" has little or no business being allowed to participate, in any way, in our government, or the election of those representatives we send to Washington DC in our stead.

While there is no doubt that over the past 100 years, there has been a slow and inexorable erosion and usurpation of our Constitutional Rights by those in all 3 branches of our government, we are never the less still a Representative Republic, and as such, it is our duty to continue to contest those usurpations by any means possible, lest one day we find that we have in fact been reduced to a dictatorship.

Never forget that in a "democracy", the rights of 49.9% of the population may be nullified by the whims of 50.1% of the population.

Rant over.

[SlightlyCatholic]

I think there's an even bigger problem than government: us. Grown men that throw a football around four months out of the year get paid millions of dollars while a doctor who tries to find a cure for cancer has to fight for funding. Sports professionals are not professionals, and in my opinion, it's a poor excuse for a career (except maybe Olympians, although that word seems synonymous with "pro sports player" now anyway). People with Ph.D's have to fight for jobs and our armed servicemembers barely make ends meet. Where are our priorities? The public would rather pay for entertainment than pay for the security and well being of our citizens.

Benjamin Martin: "Why should I agree to swap one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?" - The Patriot

Certainly something to think about...