You won’t find the word democracy in any original document of this country. We were suppose to be a republic, ruled by law, not the majority. The founders hated democracy for good reason, and never discussed it. It is a fact that when the majority rule, they will always plunder the minority.
Repealing the 17th amendment would be one step to undoing that horrible year of 1913. At least Wilson apologized before he died for what he did back then to our country.
Why dump it? It wouldnt matter, we dont follow anything it says anyway. Regardless of the language, sadly today, our politicians rarely even consider what the Constitution says.
Alexander Tytler said it best when he said that "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage. "
...always followed by a dictatorship.
Yep, all hail The Chosen One, Barack Hussein Osama!
The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.
Wow, dependence is almost at the end - JUST AS I’VE BEEN SAYING! The party’s over and so is this once-great country! The socialists have completely destroyed it with their wild spending and their fostering of an entitlement mentality in this country.
Another post from Propertymanager, name-calling our President with the name of an infamous terrorist. That’s just wrong. Ignorant, and prejudiced. Also juvenile. Not worthy of an intelligent adult.
Mike, your illogical rants are the main reason I hardly bother with reading REI Club anymore. Or posting.
I’ll bet there is a “I Hate Socialists” website that you could post on. You could try to outdo other haters with name-calling.
BlueMoon, don’t believe every quote you read. Half of them are wrong.
We have a Supreme Court whose sworn duty it is to interpret and debate new laws, old laws, and any Constitutional Amendment. Just let them do their job.
Furnishedowner
Another post from Propertymanager, name-calling our President with the name of an infamous terrorist. That's just wrong. Ignorant, and prejudiced
You’re right FO, it is just plain wrong and it’s not fair. All Bin Laden did was destroy a couple of buildings and kill 3,000 people. The Chosen One is destroying our country and our entire way of life. I’d be willing to bet that Barack Hussein ends up killing a LOT more Americans than the real Osama.
Also, I’m just following The Chosen One’s lead. He calls tea party members like me “tea baggers”, which is a homosexual slur (as best I can tell), so I think it’s only fair that I follow his lead and call him Osama (among other things). Not very tolerant of the Socialist in Chief to make such prejudiced comments!
I’ve heard “tea partier” and “tea bagger” used as synonyms. I am not aware of any homosexual slurs with those terms. In fact, people protesting downtown here had tea bags pinned to their shirts, according to the local newspaper.
You are just getting further and further out on that right-wing limb. And now you suspect your President of killing Americans and you compare him to Osama BinLaden?! Paranoia, Mike. Must be real scary to be living in your head.
As for me, I’m happy with this President that I helped choose (i.e.The Chosen One). He’s doing better than any others for the last decade or so. He’s learning the hardest job in the world while on the job.
Give the hate-mongering a rest. Our American President is not Satan. He is a credit to the voters who chose him, and well-liked in the rest of the world.
Furnishedowner
I've heard "tea partier" and "tea bagger" used as synonyms. I am not aware of any homosexual slurs with those terms.
Blissful ignorance FO? The fact that you’re not aware that the Socialist in Chief is using homosexual slurs does not change the fact that he is.
And now you suspect your President of killing Americans and you compare him to Osama BinLaden
Reading is an important skill even for liberals FO! I said that I’d bet that BO ends up killing more Americans than the real Osama - that is FUTURE tense. I did not say that I suspect The Chosen One of killing Americans (past or present tense). Furthermore, thinking that the socialist/communist/marxist government emerging in the US might want to kill millions of people isn’t paranoia FO. In fact, if you knew history, you would know that the socialists/communists/marxists killed over 150 MILLION people in the last century alone! The mass murder of millions of people isn’t only not paranoia, it’s historically probably the most likely outcome.
As for me, I'm happy with this President that I helped choose (i.e.The Chosen One).
I’ll bet you are. You’ve shown on here, over and over again, your love for socialism. The chosen one is making great strides toward making the USA a socialist country and destroying the once great country that was the last, best hope for freedom.
Tea bagger = homosexual slur indeed. Me and my friends growing up use to joke around calling eachother tea-baggers as an insult. I GAURANTEE you all the Liberals who started that know exactly what a “tea bagger” is.
This Liberal didn’t. Neither did our local newspaper who referred to them by that term. Guess you all hang out in different circles than us country folk.
Furnishedowner
Neither did our local newspaper who referred to them by that term.
It is not believable that your local newspaper doesn’t know that “tea bagger” is a homosexual slur. Either they’re totally incompetent or gay-slurring bigot liars (like most of the rest of the main stream media). Ironic that the socialists, who are supposed to be so tolerant are so often overt racists and bigots - just following the Racist in Chief I suppose.
Guess you all hang out in different circles than us country folk.
No, it just that we know how to LOOK THINGS UP so that we aren’t ignorant regarding current events.
gay-slurring bigot liars
Ironic that the socialists, who are supposed to be so tolerant are so often overt racists and bigots -
Maybe you should take a long look in the mirror. Your childish (are you an adult or 10 year old?) comments put you in the same class. :rolleyes
Or maybe we just live in a different region, where we don’t need to know YOUR regional racist and homosexual slurs. We don’t use them.
If we want to cuss people out, hey, there’s some good strong Spanish words. Which I think of when I read your posts.
Furnishedowner
Or maybe we just live in a different region, where we don't need to know YOUR regional racist and homosexual slurs.
No, it’s not a regional issue. As I said, I looked it up after the Racist in Chief started using the term. Thank heavens that Al Gore invented the internet!
“Tea-Baggers” must be a Global homosexual slur, after all, the President of USA used that term and hes from Kenya. :beer
Seriously now… stop playing BS games Furnished. Tea-Baggers IS a homosexual slur… I find it a joke were even arguing that everybody doesnt know what a tea-bagger is.
Well Hoosier, in all fairness to FO, I didn’t know what it was until it started being used by the socialists to attack Tea Party Members like me. Then, I literally looked it up. The thing that’s surprising is that she keeps arguing the point, when she clearly could have looked it up herself. However, if she acknowledges that it’s a homosexual slur, then she’ll have to admit that President Osama is a bigot (as well as a racist).
Did obama use the term “teabaggers” in public? I must have missed that one.
Yes, Osama did call the tea partiers “tea baggers”. The quote is in the following video:
They do funny things out there in the hinterlands. Furnishedowner may have a really strong chin…
It is not a slur - it is guys behaving badly.
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