25 Mar 2017, 11:37 pm
26 Mar 2017, 12:10 am
Kraichgauer wrote:
the_phoenix wrote:
Thank you, Kraichgauer,
for inspiring me to post one of my favorite Reagan quotes:
...
for inspiring me to post one of my favorite Reagan quotes:
...
History shows man is hardly good. There's something wrong in human nature; call it original sin if you like.
And sure, what is right will eventually prevail - - that's why Obamacare still stands.
Yes, there is original sin.
And that said, thank you for inspiring me to post a quote from Ronald Reagan's inaugural address from 1981:
"We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we’re in a time when there are not heroes, they just don’t know where to look. You can see heroes every day going in and out of factory gates. Others, a handful in number, produce enough food to feed all of us and then the world beyond. You meet heroes across a counter, and they’re on both sides of that counter. There are entrepreneurs with faith in themselves and faith in an idea who create new jobs, new wealth and opportunity. They’re individuals and families whose taxes support the government and whose voluntary gifts support church, charity, culture, art, and education. Their patriotism is quiet, but deep. Their values sustain our national life."
As for Obamacare, well, as Reagan predicted that "the march of freedom and democracy" would "leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people," I feel safe in predicting the same fate of winding up on the ash heap of history for Obamacare, which is based on Marxist-Leninist principles.
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26 Mar 2017, 1:17 am
the_phoenix wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
the_phoenix wrote:
Thank you, Kraichgauer,
for inspiring me to post one of my favorite Reagan quotes:
...
for inspiring me to post one of my favorite Reagan quotes:
...
History shows man is hardly good. There's something wrong in human nature; call it original sin if you like.
And sure, what is right will eventually prevail - - that's why Obamacare still stands.
Yes, there is original sin.
And that said, thank you for inspiring me to post a quote from Ronald Reagan's inaugural address from 1981:
"We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we’re in a time when there are not heroes, they just don’t know where to look. You can see heroes every day going in and out of factory gates. Others, a handful in number, produce enough food to feed all of us and then the world beyond. You meet heroes across a counter, and they’re on both sides of that counter. There are entrepreneurs with faith in themselves and faith in an idea who create new jobs, new wealth and opportunity. They’re individuals and families whose taxes support the government and whose voluntary gifts support church, charity, culture, art, and education. Their patriotism is quiet, but deep. Their values sustain our national life."
As for Obamacare, well, as Reagan predicted that "the march of freedom and democracy" would "leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people," I feel safe in predicting the same fate of winding up on the ash heap of history for Obamacare, which is based on Marxist-Leninist principles.
Historically, it's been the chasm between the haves and have-nots, as well as allowing those in poverty to be ground down, that has led to communism. FDR saved America with the New Deal federal programs, otherwise it was a good possibility that either the extreme right or the extreme left might have taken the reigns of power during the great Depression, because the American people were increasingly left with fewer and fewer options. Programs like the ACA aren't the segway to your Marxist-Leninist revolution, but rather, it's a means of stopping it, as more and more people are falling into despair about the future again.
By the way, Reagan had hit off his Presidential campaign against Jimmy Carter at the little Mississippi town where three civil rights workers had been murdered by KKK members within the local Sheriff's office. Reagan condemned - not the murder of the three idealistic men - but how civil rights had humiliated the south. That had set the tone for his campaign, completing the work of Nixon's Southern Strategy by getting conservative white southerners to desert the Democratic party in droves, thereby making the GOP appear to be a sanctuary for racists and cranks. Not exactly my picture of an American hero, despite all his speeches with which he painted castles in the air.
26 Mar 2017, 2:21 am
26 Mar 2017, 2:23 am
Those who wish to put words in Reagan's mouth would do well to provide an actual quote, and get their facts straight about his campaign, while they're at it.
Anyways, I'll take this occasion to provide another Reaganesque quote: "Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his." ― Ronald Reagan 
(notice the wide-mouth smiley for Jimmy Carter's famously wide and toothy grin)
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