Comments on: The Cost of Freedom http://bejohngalt.com/2009/03/the-cost-of-freedom/ “He was guilty of nothing, except that he earned his own fortune and never forgot that it was his.“ The concept contained within that phrase is what has set America apart, and made her the greatest nation on Earth. And it is the systematic attack on that concept, that this website is dedicated to fighting. This website is NOT devoted to making people “wealthy”, but rather to fighting the notion that the “wealth” they DO have needs to be “redistributed”. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:15:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: gnqanq http://bejohngalt.com/2009/03/the-cost-of-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-2529 gnqanq Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:37:19 +0000 http://bejohngalt.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/the-cost-of-freedom/#comment-2529 Might be playing with fire. They could well get burnt by this by playing with people's lifes. Don't know how they will respond to adversity brought on by people with an agenda - may go postal on them. Might be playing with fire. They could well get burnt by this by playing with people’s lifes. Don’t know how they will respond to adversity brought on by people with an agenda – may go postal on them.

]]> By: Jan http://bejohngalt.com/2009/03/the-cost-of-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-2528 Jan Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:25:28 +0000 http://bejohngalt.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/the-cost-of-freedom/#comment-2528 rwyThe following exerpt continues this discussion in questioning what Obama might really be trying to accomplish:<blockquote>The blogger Doug Ross at [5] directorblue (h/t [6] Instapundit) asks a disconcerting question that is on the lips of more and more people these days:Is President Obama intentionally attempting to bring the stock market to its knees?Well, is he? Mr. Ross asks us to “Consider that, in the teeth of a devastating recession, Obama has:”• Raised taxes on small businesses, the engines of entrepreneurship and job growth• Raised the capital gains tax• Lied about “tax cuts for 95% of Americans,” offering instead $13 a week, achieved not through tax cuts, but by changing the federal withholding tables!• Destroyed charitable giving by axing the tax breaks for 26% of all giving (or $81 billion in 2006)• Proposed a carbon cap-and-trading scheme designed to punish oil [and coal] companies and further tax consumersWhy would Obama inflict these destructive policies while the economy is collapsing? Simple. Each step strengthens the role of government in people’s lives.And here we have the ’enry ’iggins moment: “By George, I think he’s got it!” “Each step strengthens the role of government in people’s lives.” That’s exactly what Lenin sought to do.</blockquote><a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/03/05/incompetence-malevolence-or-both-or-why-obamas-policies-are-pink-not-green-with-a-coda-on-my-new-favorite-section-of-the-us-constitution/?print=1" rel="nofollow">Incompetence, malevolence, or both...</a> rwyThe following exerpt continues this discussion in questioning what Obama might really be trying to accomplish:
The blogger Doug Ross at [5] directorblue (h/t [6] Instapundit) asks a disconcerting question that is on the lips of more and more people these days:Is President Obama intentionally attempting to bring the stock market to its knees?Well, is he? Mr. Ross asks us to “Consider that, in the teeth of a devastating recession, Obama has:”• Raised taxes on small businesses, the engines of entrepreneurship and job growth• Raised the capital gains tax• Lied about “tax cuts for 95% of Americans,” offering instead $13 a week, achieved not through tax cuts, but by changing the federal withholding tables!• Destroyed charitable giving by axing the tax breaks for 26% of all giving (or $81 billion in 2006)• Proposed a carbon cap-and-trading scheme designed to punish oil [and coal] companies and further tax consumersWhy would Obama inflict these destructive policies while the economy is collapsing? Simple. Each step strengthens the role of government in people’s lives.And here we have the ’enry ’iggins moment: “By George, I think he’s got it!” “Each step strengthens the role of government in people’s lives.” That’s exactly what Lenin sought to do.

Incompetence, malevolence, or both…

]]> By: right wing yahoo http://bejohngalt.com/2009/03/the-cost-of-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-2527 right wing yahoo Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:51:01 +0000 http://bejohngalt.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/the-cost-of-freedom/#comment-2527 Remember Jan, proper and just revolutions are slow in coming, like ours was, begun long before 1776... It must come only after a "long train of abuses and usurpations", and the rebels MUST demonstrate a prolonged good faith effort to uphold the US constitution BEFORE reaching for the rifles. Patience. I don't want to hurry my own death. It will come, if the present course continues. Remember Jan, proper and just revolutions are slow in coming, like ours was, begun long before 1776… It must come only after a “long train of abuses and usurpations”, and the rebels MUST demonstrate a prolonged good faith effort to uphold the US constitution BEFORE reaching for the rifles. Patience. I don’t want to hurry my own death. It will come, if the present course continues.

]]> By: right wing yahoo http://bejohngalt.com/2009/03/the-cost-of-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-2526 right wing yahoo Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:47:54 +0000 http://bejohngalt.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/the-cost-of-freedom/#comment-2526 Bah, I meant Shay's rebellion, I knew it was wrong when I typed it. 1786-87...The Whiskey Rebellion was a PA affair in 1791, Bah, I meant Shay’s rebellion, I knew it was wrong when I typed it. 1786-87…The Whiskey Rebellion was a PA affair in 1791,

]]> By: Jan http://bejohngalt.com/2009/03/the-cost-of-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-2525 Jan Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:47:30 +0000 http://bejohngalt.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/the-cost-of-freedom/#comment-2525 "Lethargy" and fear are the evil twins prohibiting people from standing up and saying "no more!" “Lethargy” and fear are the evil twins prohibiting people from standing up and saying “no more!”

]]> By: right wing yahoo http://bejohngalt.com/2009/03/the-cost-of-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-2524 right wing yahoo Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:45:31 +0000 http://bejohngalt.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/the-cost-of-freedom/#comment-2524 Jefferson refers to the Whiskey rebellion, and although it failed he thought it overall a benefit to the spirit of liberty. I actually think they (the rebels) got a raw deal. Jefferson refers to the Whiskey rebellion, and although it failed he thought it overall a benefit to the spirit of liberty. I actually think they (the rebels) got a raw deal.

]]> By: Jan http://bejohngalt.com/2009/03/the-cost-of-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-2523 Jan Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:38:50 +0000 http://bejohngalt.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/the-cost-of-freedom/#comment-2523 Thought-provoking post, JustRand.Introspection is what lots of people are doing nowadays...like, "How did we this country go south so fast under Obama??I think what bothers me almost more than obama himself, these days, are the people who seem to have a disconnect from his words and what his actions are really inciting and unraveling! It's like everyone is reading along with him, on that old teleprompter, and believing everything materializing on that screen. In the meantime, there is a huge earthquake going on around them. Things are falling down as Obama is speaking, and all these STUPID partisans can do is hum and sing more praises for this inept man!The unfortunate by-product of unintended consequences is that they befall everyone, even those people with their eyes wide open! Thought-provoking post, JustRand.Introspection is what lots of people are doing nowadays…like, “How did we this country go south so fast under Obama??I think what bothers me almost more than obama himself, these days, are the people who seem to have a disconnect from his words and what his actions are really inciting and unraveling! It’s like everyone is reading along with him, on that old teleprompter, and believing everything materializing on that screen. In the meantime, there is a huge earthquake going on around them. Things are falling down as Obama is speaking, and all these STUPID partisans can do is hum and sing more praises for this inept man!The unfortunate by-product of unintended consequences is that they befall everyone, even those people with their eyes wide open!

]]> By: right wing yahoo http://bejohngalt.com/2009/03/the-cost-of-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-2522 right wing yahoo Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:31:03 +0000 http://bejohngalt.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/the-cost-of-freedom/#comment-2522 Jefferson:<em>The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, & what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusetts? And can history produce an instance of rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it's motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. <b>God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion.</b> The people cannot be all, & always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.</em> Jefferson:The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, & what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusetts? And can history produce an instance of rebellion so honourably conducted? I say nothing of it’s motives. They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, & always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

]]> By: right wing yahoo http://bejohngalt.com/2009/03/the-cost-of-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-2521 right wing yahoo Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:28:29 +0000 http://bejohngalt.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/the-cost-of-freedom/#comment-2521 Jefferson said, "God forbid we go 20 years without a revolution"... I'll go get the quote, but clearly he had little faith in the integrity of the Federal government.. Jefferson said, “God forbid we go 20 years without a revolution”… I’ll go get the quote, but clearly he had little faith in the integrity of the Federal government..

]]> By: JustMary http://bejohngalt.com/2009/03/the-cost-of-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-2520 JustMary Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:12:50 +0000 http://bejohngalt.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/the-cost-of-freedom/#comment-2520 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas JeffersonI wonder sometimes, if the founding fathers had a theory as to when the breakdown of our core principles would occur. Did they imagine our society at this point at this time to be what it is? How long did they think it would be before a revolution occured? “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” – Thomas JeffersonI wonder sometimes, if the founding fathers had a theory as to when the breakdown of our core principles would occur. Did they imagine our society at this point at this time to be what it is? How long did they think it would be before a revolution occured?

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