Comments on: Many lose, few win in debt deal debacle

By: Danny Adams

Danny Adams — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:32:59 +0000

Keith–while I heartily agree with the sentiment, this isn’t actually a Jefferson quote. I think the earliest attribution is to Barry Goldwater.

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:34:35 +0000

As Thomas Jefferson once said, “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.”

Clearly, nothing has changed.

By: Faithfu Servant

Faithfu Servant — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:28:01 +0000

The boogieman used to be a monster lurking in the shadows, waiting to jump out and grab you. Now the boogieman is hiding in the shadows of Washington, lurking and encroaching, step by step into our lives each day! They continue gnashing at the mouth, stumbling in the darkness.
Our government seems to think that they alone possess all the power, magnificence, and glory. Their personalities and power cast a shadow across our nation and the world. Washington DC, a city set on Capital Hill, cannot be hidden.
The executive officials of our government, and this legislation making our laws have made us submit to a budget that most Americans do not agree with. The use of force and threats, to coarse us into intense fear and submit to their political policies is Terrorism at its best. The play the American people as fools and deceive us with their silly, unwise and ubsurd way of serving We the American people.
They can call our fellow Americans Terrorist, radical, racist, fringe, extremists, hostage takers, yet we are expected to be politically correct towards terrorism on our own country!
They want us all to continue to live in darkness with them, but I will follow the light of the world, and as long as I have the right to my free speech I will descent. Those who cling to our Bibles and guns are called the new outlaws and we can all see this! We are attacked for our love of the Father and anxiously await till the last of the body of Christ makes the right choice. We ask not to be hated for our love for all the human race, but cannot be mad at God, for the choice is yours alone. Wake up and turn on the lights!
A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is His delight. We put no confidence in the flesh to accomplish our desires because it is God who accomplishes all these things.
We now have Czars which is the tittle of any former emperor of Rome. Capital Hill has now turned into Capitoline Hill, the Highest of the seven hills of Rome, a historic religious center of the cit, and they are throwing us to the lions.
He who leads the upright astray in an evil way will himself fall into his own pit, but the blameless shall inherit good. As for god, His way is blameless, the work of the Lord is tried; He is the shield to all who take refuge in Him.
The wise man knows their is a greater power at work than the power we see exerted in this world. Things which are a mere shadow of what is to come, and the substance belongs to Christ, as God’s power overshadows everything!
Every good thing bestowed and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation, or shifting shadow! Always remember that Only the shadow knows! BWAHAHAHA This little light of mine…I’m gonna let it shine!
May God love, bless and keep you always!

By: Almandine

Almandine — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:58:52 +0000

Americans of every stripe lost, because we are further into national bankruptcy than we were before. No one with any degree of understanding is saying we’ll ever get out of this without a major default of some sort… mostly likely a currency devaluation of major proportions.

For all the talk of “immediate” spending cuts of $1T in the debt deal, the actual amount of cuts in 2012 is a mere $7B. So what’s all the commotion about?

It’s no wonder that anyone with a lick of sense, Republican candidates included, doesn’t feel like much was accomplished toward putting our fiscal house in order.

Historically, the tax/spend equation has been in near balance at 18 to 20 % of GDP. Today, revenues ($2.2T) are about 61% of govt spending ($3.6T), which is about 25% of GDP. Clearly, to raise the amount of taxes enough to bring the equation back into balance would require an additional tax load of about 63%, spending cuts aside.

Is that where we should be headed?

By: Davld Clark

Davld Clark — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:32:16 +0000

Whatever Thomas Jefferson would say. ditto.