From an investment newsletter:
"So... according to the news, 'Last week brought positive economic news across the board...' Just as I said to you a month ago, the economy under Obama is getting better. And this is what kills me about you right wing nuts:
- The economy was great under Clinton... and the right wing hated him. * The economy was mediocre under Bush... and then got absolutely terrible... yet the right wing loved him. * The economy is getting better under Obama and will soon be very good... and the right wing hates him.
"You see a pattern here? We on the left dislike Presidents who make our lives worse. You on the right dislike Presidents who make your lives better. I think my side makes more sense." ? Mark Kesler
Ferris comment: I don't understood how an otherwise normal, sane adult can say in public with a straight face that he's liberal/conservative, left/right, or democrat/republican. Aren't you embarrassed to say, "We on the left," when the left and the right are barely distinguishable?
Do you really believe the economy is getting better? And if so, do you really believe it's because of Obama? What has he done, except seize control of mortgages, the finance industry, the auto industry, and now the health care industry? You really think those seizures are good for the economy? Could anyone think such a thing?
Obama has cast side the rule of law and the legality of contracts, and in the case of ObamaCare, blatantly circumvented the Constitution. There's nothing in the Constitution that allows the government to force us to engage in commerce.
"Here is a quote that certainly fits the times:
Most of the ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. . . .
The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional "do-gooders," who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others--with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means. By Henry Grady Weaver in the book The Mainspring of Human Progress pages 40-41.
"Here is another one from a former FBI agent, Dan Smoot in January 29, 1968:
England was killed by an idea; the idea that the weak, indolent, and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and frugal ? to the degree that tax consumers will have a living standard comparable to that of taxpayers; the idea that government exists for the purpose of plundering those who work to give the product of their labor to those who do not work.
The economic and social cannibalism produced by this communist-socialist idea will destroy any society which adopts it and clings to it as a basic principle ? any society." ? Garth Brinkerhoff