OPB told me I "can't not think" though.
"We know what a failure to act would bring: More of the same. More of the same exploding costs. More of the same diminished coverage. If we fail to act, the crisis will grow. More families will go without coverage. More businesses will be forced to drop or water down their plans."
"We know what a failure to act would bring: More of the same. More of the same exploding costs. More of the same diminished coverage. If we fail to act, the crisis will grow. More families will go without coverage. More businesses will be forced to drop or water down their plans."
-President Barak Obama
"Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them. There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day."
"Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them. There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day."
-Bennito Mussolini
"I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its Gross National Product on health care cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. And that’s what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out. A single payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. And that’s what I’d like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, and we have to take back the House."
"I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its Gross National Product on health care cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. And that’s what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out. A single payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. And that’s what I’d like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, and we have to take back the House."
Obama
"The importance of the State is rapidly growing. The so-called crisis can only be settled by State action and within the orbit of the State"
"The importance of the State is rapidly growing. The so-called crisis can only be settled by State action and within the orbit of the State"
-Mussolini
"Here I wish to reaffirm with no weaker energy, the formula I expounded at the scala in Milan: everything in the state, nothing against the State, nothing outside the state.
"Here I wish to reaffirm with no weaker energy, the formula I expounded at the scala in Milan: everything in the state, nothing against the State, nothing outside the state.
-Mussolini
“We’ve been debating this stuff for decades. It’s time for us tomove forward.”
“We’ve been debating this stuff for decades. It’s time for us tomove forward.”
-Barak Obama
"It has never been easy, moving this nation forward. There are always those who oppose it, and those who use fear to block change."
"It has never been easy, moving this nation forward. There are always those who oppose it, and those who use fear to block change."
Obama
"A nation, as expressed in the State, is a living, ethical entity only in so far as it isprogressive. Inactivity is death. Therefore the State is not only Authority which governs and confers legal form and spiritual value on individual wills, but it is also Power which makes its will felt and respected beyond its own frontiers, thus affording practical proof of the universal character of the decisions necessary to ensure its development. This implies organization and expansion, potential if not actual. Thus the State equates itself to the will of man, whose development cannot he checked by obstacles and which, by achieving self-expression, demonstrates its infinity."
"A nation, as expressed in the State, is a living, ethical entity only in so far as it isprogressive. Inactivity is death. Therefore the State is not only Authority which governs and confers legal form and spiritual value on individual wills, but it is also Power which makes its will felt and respected beyond its own frontiers, thus affording practical proof of the universal character of the decisions necessary to ensure its development. This implies organization and expansion, potential if not actual. Thus the State equates itself to the will of man, whose development cannot he checked by obstacles and which, by achieving self-expression, demonstrates its infinity."
-Mussolini
"In America, we have this strong bias toward individual action. You know, we idolize the John Wayne hero who comes in to correct things with both guns blazing. But individual actions, individual dreams, are not sufficient. We must unite in collective action, build collective institutions and organizations.”
"In America, we have this strong bias toward individual action. You know, we idolize the John Wayne hero who comes in to correct things with both guns blazing. But individual actions, individual dreams, are not sufficient. We must unite in collective action, build collective institutions and organizations.”
-Obama
"It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of the nation, that the position of the individual is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole."
"It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of the nation, that the position of the individual is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole."
-Adolf Hitler
Conservatives are always labeled as "fascist" and "Nazis" while in fact, Progressives are much closer to fascism than conservatives or libertarians.
But maybe I'm just thinking too much.
3 comments:
Isn't it odd that both sides of the isle are heading to stateism. Bush effectively put the military under the presidents control. The whole phone tapping bit and all the border fears he pushed. Now we have Obama bringing about socialized medicine, taxes enought to support a huge government and preparing to dictate our energy consumption.
Neithe side is doing us any favors except making us feel scared and angry. We need a few more presidents like...er....well...Clark Kent to fix this mess.
My thoughts can be summed up best by linking this picture.
Jeff, agree. We need someone who says things like, "In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden."
Bill, I completely agree. Calling anyone in our government "Hitler" or even "Nazi" is totally false and offensive.
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