That’s Not What We Meant
By Johnny Roosh
President BHO enlisted the support of our forefathers against their will in his 4th of July radio address.
He said the same “unyielding spirit” that drove the pioneers and Depression-era workers was needed now to push for a national health care overhaul, make major energy policy changes, and deal with a struggling economy, he said in his weekly address.
“We are not a people who fear the future. We are a people who make it,” he said. “And on this July 4th, we need to summon that spirit once more. We need to summon the same spirit that inhabited Independence Hall two hundred and thirty-three years ago today.”
Yeah, I am pretty sure our forefathers, having fled tyranny, taxation without representation, and the plundering and ravaging of Great Britain were thinking big government, a huge national debt, unfair and burdensome tax codes, an administration seeking to usurp “checks and balances,” post-modern moral relativity, and “dialogue” with the enemies of freedom and human rights. That’s not what drove them to endure the hardships of an oceanic voyage and a revolutionary war.
That is the spirit we are called to show once more. We are facing an array of challenges on a scale unseen in our time. We are waging two wars. We are battling a deep recession. And our economy – and our nation itself – are endangered by festering problems we have kicked down the road for far too long: spiraling health care costs; inadequate schools; and a dependence on foreign oil.
Meeting these extraordinary challenges will require an extraordinary effort on the part of every American. And that is an effort we cannot defer any longer.
…so let’s borrow 800 Billion Dollars. If that’s not a deferral, I don’t know what is. Oh, and not every American. Just the 40% or so that actually pay taxes. True to form, there is no mention of the federal government’s part in our current malaise.
Now is the time to reform an unsustainable health care system that is imposing crushing costs on families, businesses, large and small, and state and federal budgets. We need to protect what works, fix what’s broken, and bring down costs for all Americans. No more talk. (No more talk? Then what do we need Obama for?-JR) No more delay. Health care reform must happen this year.
…because dagnabbit, only 80% of Americans are satisfied with the current system.
One can imagine the disgust John F. Kennedy (“Ask not…”) would have, let alone our forefathers, if they could see rugged individualism replaced by a nanny state, the enabling of bad personal decisions, the welfare rolls both individually and coporate, IOU’s issued by states, the US Federal Government becoming one of the largest employers in the world, the interpretation or utter disregard for our Constitution by our courts; and more recently what the Obama administration and our liberal congress have proposed in the name of “Progress” in America.
They might have stayed home.
July 4th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Cheer up, Roosh! You and every member of your family each owe $184,000.
http://www.anti-strib.com/blog/you-owe-184-000-pay-up-sucker.html#readmore
Happy Independence Day!
July 4th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Obama is being disingenuous. When he was a law teacher he lamented the fact that our constitution only guarantees negative liberties. The agenda he is promoting has nothing to do with the constitution of the United States of America.
July 4th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Obama is being disingenuous.
No Terry. He’s lying. And has been for at least two years.
July 5th, 2009 at 4:45 am
Roosh wrote:
” an administration seeking to usurp “checks and balances”
Not nearly as much as the last administration did that.
“Imperial Presidency” – I agree with Noam Chomsky http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20041217.htm
July 5th, 2009 at 5:17 am
How long does Obama have to be President before we stop hearing “Yeah, but…”
Not nearly as much as the last administration did that.
Give it up, it’s lame.
July 5th, 2009 at 8:27 am
I agree with Noam Chomsky
You have my deepest sympathy.
July 5th, 2009 at 9:31 am
You guys should settle in for the long haul. Unless you can do a little better than Caribou Barbie in ’12.
July 5th, 2009 at 10:11 am
2010, Clownie. The day of reckoning is coming, and Nancy P. ain’t gonna like it.
You betcha!
July 5th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Caribou Barbie
Berg’s Eighth Law: “American liberalism’s reaction to one of “their”constituents – women, gays or people of color – running for office or otherwise identifying as a conservative is indistinguishable from sociopathic disorder.”
July 5th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Kinda like how crazy you wingnuts get when some rich white guy votes Democratic, eh?
“Muffy, can you believe the gall of that George Soros?”
“Well he’s not in the Social Register, so he’s really not one of us, is he Pookie?”
July 5th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Um, I don’t think he’s even a US citizen. Not that that’s ever stopped a Democrat voter…
July 5th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Ding, ding, ding! Wow, you just hit reason 1,0000 Not to Listen to Anything Kermie Says!
The correct answer:
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/10/07billionaires_George-Soros_L9II.html
July 5th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Reason 1,0000? Angryclown needs to go back to Elementary School. Personally I don’t give a rat’s rectum what Soros is. I certainly am not going to waste time researching him.
But hey, run him for President some day!
July 5th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Kermit said: “Um, I don’t think he’s even a US citizen.”
Kermit’s dumb.
July 5th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Kermit doesn’t care about Soros immigration status.
July 5th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
In a rational world being a native speaker of Esperanto would be a disqualification for American citizenship.
July 5th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Kermit’s dumb.
This from a guy who posts “1,0000”. Was that ten thousand, or did you just miss a decimal?
July 5th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Kermit said: “Um, I don’t think he’s even a US citizen.”
Kermit was proved wrong.
Then Kermit said: “Kermit doesn’t care about Soros immigration status.”
July 5th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Kermit lobbed over the plate: “Was that ten thousand, or did you just miss a decimal?”
Haha! You tell us, Kerm. Are there 10,000 reasons to disregard everything you say, or just 1,000?