Posted by
grad_1986 on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 1:22:48 PM
Marie Antionette's famous last words were... "LET them eat cake". These words showed the arrogance of the ruling class in France and she paid dearly for it later on by literally losing her head. Of course the "ruling class" has never learned its lesson. By the early 1900's in America a new ruling class called "Progressives" had come on the scene. These elitists thought themselves to be better educated and and also better "bread" than their working class rivals. They made inroads into politics with the likes of Teddy Rosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and later FDR. These elites pushed secular programs such as forced-sterilizations, birth-control and alcohol-prohibition thinking they could stem the tide of uneducated ill-reputes with poor genetic backgrounds. They thought themselves to be of higher standards than the rest and felt they needed to "guide" these poor souls as "parents".
Today these progressives are still alive and well. They still see themselves as better than the average American who are too stupid to care for their own needs. Out of their own benevolence they decide what freedoms we will enjoy and not enjoy. If they see a freedom as potentially harmful to us as their subjects they are sure to swoop down as a "helicopter parent" and remove it from us for our own good .
Recently, Obama made the statement at a town hall meeting that government is "going to LET you keep your insurance and your doctor". Isn't that amazing? The all-knowing, all-powerful, ever-benevolent Obama is going to LET us keep our freedom of choice of our health-care. They have decided for now to LET us decide for ourselves what is good for us. Can you hear the arrogance in that message? For how long will they LET us keep this freedom? Until they think we are not fit to make that choice anymore? Where do you get the POWER to take that freedom from us? It is NOWHERE in the Constitution Mr Obama! You have no power in any of the articles and YOU KNOW IT! But you have pushed your limits as far as they can go, hoping no one every calls you on it. But now we are wising up and we are re-learning our rights under the Constitution and we are going to hold you and all your ilk to the oaths (which you must have had a terrible time keeping a straight face while you were reciting) you made when you took office.
It's not health-care that needs reforming. It's our whole government that needs to be thrown out. We needs leaders who don't look down their noses at us and treat us with disdain and click their tongues on the roof of their mouths as they wag their heads back and forth like disappointed parents. We need leaders who will leave us alone. Who will allow us to be free once again from their rules and their taxes and who think that we "need to be saved". We don't need saving Washington! We are more than capable of taking care of ourselves.
LET them be voted out of office!