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To: LindyBill who wrote (295362)3/6/2009 11:10:36 PM
From: MrLucky4 Recommendations  Respond to of 793926
 
Hanson left out a most important piece of the two decade failure. And that is the endless political correctness and victimhood that the liberal state legislature, city councils and county superviors have fine tuned.

In my view, CA is lost socially.

First you break down the social barriers. Then you break the economical barriers. After that, attack the military and security barriers.

Sounds like a good movie for oliver stone and sean penn.



To: LindyBill who wrote (295362)3/6/2009 11:20:42 PM
From: Peter van Steennis8 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793926
 
Lindy:

Thought you would appreciate this:

Old Tom must have known what we were going to get into……………8.

Subject: Thomas Jefferson

John Kennedy once said to a assembled group of scholars in the White
House: I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

The quotes below could prove his point.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson

Very Interesting Quote:

In light of the present financial crisis, it's interesting to read
what Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
Banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

Doesn't this sound eerily familiar to what is happening in America today?