Was George Washington right?
By SteveSlaton
@SteveSlaton (552)
United States
October 9, 2008 9:08pm CST
President Washington informed the public late in his second term that he would not run for another term in his Farewell Address. He wrote lots of things but in these times the most important advise he wrote may well be what he said about political parties. I'll paraphrase:
People, if you value your freedom, do not trust a two party system. It is susceptible to corruption domestically and internationally by clever minds. Your freedom will either be compromised or destroyed. [End paraphrase.]
It seems to me that our two party system has us over $10 trillion in debt and we are continuing to sink. Assuming 200 million taxpayers that figures out to $50,000 per taxpayer. Has your freedom been compromised as the two party system ran up the debt?
1 response
@Arkie69 (2156)
• United States
10 Oct 08
I have been blaming the two party system for a lot of our problems for years. These two jerks running for President are a good example of this. Every cent these people spend on their campaigns can only come from one place and that is out of the pockets of the consumers.
Both parties spend far too much time arguing with each other when they should be working together for the good of all.
@Arkie69 (2156)
• United States
11 Oct 08
I would bet you have some more pretty good ideas too. I know exactly what you are saying about hiring people to work. At one time my Brother and I ran two crews framing new houses. The local employment office would send people to us that were supposed to be top notch carpenters and we couldn't use them.
From the way they are talking now it looks like we are going to wind up with a socialist government out of this crash. They are saying the government won't be competing with the public but you can bet they will.
@SteveSlaton (552)
• United States
9 Nov 08
Talking about socialism, how 'bout that bail out? Bush signed, Obama and McCain voted for it, and we the taxpayers are now in the banking business while the fat cats just got richer...
The $900 Billion plus trillions of Euro Dollars bailouts is NOT the way to fix corruption of our financial systems.
Anti-trust law used to be a good thing. While I am a capitalist, I also understand that regulation, oversight, and vigilance is essential if freedom is to be perpetuated.
