Waffler, you are a real whack job, what I would call a Wackadoodle! Equality of opportunity is different from equality of outcome. Some people are smarter than others, some have talent for leadership, other have a talent for music. Thank God for the differences in all of us. Some people know how to make money and how to create jobs. Some people know how to sit on their duffs and expect to be taken care of by the government. Which one are you Waffler?

What's wrong with the definition of this being a country that democratically elects its representates? Well for one, we don't elect our presidents in this manner. They are elected by an electoral college ( thank God) rather than by the popular vote. I say thank God, because, with the exception of this last disgraceful election, the popular vote is nothing more than a popularity contest. Today, the level of ignorance (lack of education) in our country is appalling and to rely on such mass ignorance to elect our president would be a travesty. Apparently, the Electoral College is not immune. When I look at Congress today, I am certain that the highest level of ignorance has reached that august body as well. And until we do something about the federal indoctrination of our kids, we have no hope of saving this country from the evils of socialism.

I had to laugh at the Waffler's definition of income. Hey Waffler, try out the definition of "cut." Such as in the way liberals use it when Congress deems it necessary not to increase spending as much as they want on one of their pet programs. Instead of a 20 percent increase, they only get a 10 percent increase. They scream and holler and insist that these are cuts to the program...that innocent school children will starve to death because the Republicans have drastically cut their program. Now THAT's the definition of playing with words, Waffler.

I think that statement is a indictment of the human race. We are all weak of flesh. It would seem that the resistence to temptations is something human beings are not very good at. It takes a person of exceptional inner strength and moral fiber to walk away from the hypnotic pull of absolute power. George Bush I and II are two good examples of those who have simply walked away and blended into the rest of the human race and are doing fine. Carter and Clinton, on the other hand, cannot seem to take their bow and walk off the stage. Career politcians should be a thing of the past because it is these people who exemplify those who feed off the power they have and would simply shrivel up and die if they lost it.

When you listen to the Democrat's own representatives in their own Town Hall meetings you can see their arrogance, and you can hear the disgust in their voice when they answer their constituents. They pose as servents to get elected, then act like they are royalty when the get to DC. They're royal okay, royal pains in the a***.

I disagree. Unless one believes that ignorance is a human condition that affects us all, then that's a pretty sad commentary on human life. Prejudice is, however, a human condition. Everyone is prejudiced whether they want to admit it or not. It comes under the same concept as sin. We are all sinners in the sight of God, therefore we have no right to judge one another. But we do, don't we? Liberals, of course, won't have anything to do with concept of sin. They are too arrogant and proud to have an invisible God condemn them to sin, so therefore there is no God. You can see how ignoring the fact that we are all sinners, they also ignore the fact that we are all prejudiced. Just because we are all sinners, yes, even Billy Graham was a sinner, it doesn't mean we all go around committing heineous sins everywhere we go. It's the same with prejucices. With the exception of the professional race baiters (Jackson and Sharpton), just because we have prejudices doesn't mean we all go around spreading hate and discontent everywhere we go. One doesn't have to ignorant to commit sins just as one doesn't have to be ignorant to commit racial prejudice.

The problem with those who want to control the society is that they will not go away. They are forcing their fantasies down our throats taking advantage of our tolerance for idiots.

Freedom and license (excessive liberty or freedom) are two distinctly separate concepts. Freedom implies self-discipline and responsible behavior. Without those self-restraints, freedom degenerates to license. Many people do not understand the difference between unrestrained freedom (license) and the freedom to pursue your own happiness. This is why liberal Progressives hate the Declaration of Independence which claims that our freedoms are God-given and cannot be given or taken away by man. To them, this idea is as vile as pornography is to a Christian.

Unfortunately, this is true. This quote should wake people up to the absolute security that liberal Progressives believe is the ideal condition of life. A police state like Cuba supposedly has no crime because every movement and action of the people is known by the government. What the proponents of a police state don't take into consideration is human nature. If there is a will, there is a way, and humans will always find a way. A police state can only exist under a dictatorship, but the liberal Progressives won't tell you this. If they did, people would never agree to being under a police state. Liberals have to lie and be decietful or their plans would never be agreed to by a sane and educated population. You should always remember that, to liberal progressives, lying is only a means to an end, and any means justifies the ends. Absolute security is absolute loss of freedom.

The quote is wrong. It should read "opinions" instead of "options." Even so, I suppose it would be a calm mind who has no opinions, but opinions are like belly-buttons...we all have at least one!

Awsome! What the hell is it about FREEDOM that liberal Progressives just don't understand? Do they think that freedom means freedom from worrying about earning a living, freedom from worrying about how you will feed your family, or freedom about paying for a doctor's services is really freedom?

What an eye-opener! Booker T died in 1915 and knew all about the race baiters even then. Jessie Jackson was an aide to MLK JR. He knew exactly what King was trying to do, yet today he twists King's message to benefit and monetarily enrich himself. Al Sharpton is the ultimate scam artist as are all of the race baiters. There is too much money to be made to try to turn an honest dollar. I've never heard the "professionals" that Waffler is referring to ever shake down an entire society to try to make us feel guilty for slavery, or for any other reason. Waffler doesn't seem to realize that most of our ancestors who came from Europe came over as bonded servents (read slaves) and had to work off their service for seven years. If they weren't frugal and put aside every penny and everything of even the slightest value, they would have spent their entire lives in bondage. Many of them did just that. Waffler doesn't seem to understand a lot of things, for instance, that it was the African slave traders who went out and captured, chained and confined blacks in trading centers where they put them on the block for sale to the highest bidders. Waffler also has no clue as to how slavery worked on 99 percent of the plantations in the South. The wealthy plantation owners understood the value of their slaves. They didn't arbitrarily whip them or rape them or any of the other felacious atrocities that are claimed today. The slaves were akin to valuable livestock. They were well fed, well housed, and well clothed. Their health care was taken care of. (Sound a lot like welfare today?) In those days they were well cared for because a sick or lame slave was worthless until they were brought back to health. Slaves were an asset to be cared for or you lost profits. Today, we keep "slaves" on the welfare rolls so they won't run in the streets and kill whitie. At least that's what I've learned from watching TV and listening to the new Black Panthers. Apparently they aren't getting enough so they're reverting to threats. Guess we'd better give them what they want or we'll be living in constant fear right? NOT!

By the way, this IS about redistribution of wealth you little pinko commies! To see that Jefferson was concerned about the whiners who would insist on sharing in the fruits of another's labors 400 years ago proves to me that human nature does not change at all. Now doesn't that make the Constitution a very relevant document even today, you trolls? Wisdom shows that human nature remains the same and hasn't changed since God created us, it's only technology that advances. Way to go Einstein. You should have realized that if you give a man a bigger stick, he's going to use it. We're always going to have the trolls with us which makes me a believer in that old saying that the Creator has a warped sense of humor.

What is wrong with people like T Lamar, Waffler, and Anonymous? I went to high school with a kid whose father inherited millions and took over the industry of his father. This kid drove a pink caddy to school. The damn thing had automatic vacuuming ashtrays! We didn't treat him any different than anyone else in our school. I can't recall anyone calling him a "richy-rich" or any other disparaging names that liberals reserve for those who have a dollar more than they have. These three above mentioned folks are fearful and frightened about life in general and the fact that someone is classed "uber rich" just drives the up the wall. Scientific studies show that those who are born to money know how to handle it. They understand what it does and how to make it work for them and consequently for the good of mankind. It is only those who have never had wealth, who don't understand what money is and how it works that use it for their own gratification. They usually end up losing millions of dollars in a few short years. See "Lottery Horror Stories" on Google. Liberals don't understand money or wealth in the least. They think that those who are rich have taken money away from what is rightfully theirs to share. In my world, if you don't work, you don't eat, or you get the scraps if any are left over. In my world if you can't work for legitimate reasons, THEN you share in the wealth.

"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt." - John Philpot I'll be damned if I'm going to sit back and watch the "progressives" take this country over any make me and my loved ones kowtow to their idiotic demands. How can any of us leave such a legacy to our children and grandchildren?

Winsmith is correct. With our attention (vigilance) diverted away from the shenanegans in DC to what the Romans called the Big Circus, our freedoms are being taken from us like so many pirranahs stripping the flesh from a wilderbeast who failed, for one second, to be vigilant.

Like Mike from Norwalk, I think that poetry that uses mysterious alliterations. allusions, and esoteric similes is fine for those whose heads are in the clouds, but for the average joe six-pack, it's just so much mumbo-jumbo. He could have just said that the fight for freedom is never-ending and unless we remain vigiliant against those who would take it away from us, we will lose it.

It's as if AESOP knew there would be unions in the future. Sure the unions give the member strength, but at the expense of those not in the unions. America is a union, or at least for now. It was founded on individual responsibilities and the belief that each person would pursue their own happiness. Today, we are not allowed to do that anymore. We must comply with government regulations at all levels. We are taxed into submission by greedy, vote grabbing, benifit dispensing politicians whose only goal is to retain their seat of power. Any government that ceases to work for the majority of the people must be dismantled and reformed to meet the demand of the majority. Today we are ruled and dictated to by the minority and this can only lead to revolution and bloodshed if we fail to vote the minority "ruling class" out of office. Watch and see how many ignorant people confuse my use of the word "minority" thinking I'm talking about blacks.

Imagine that. A philosopher 550 years before the birth of Christ has said something that applies to us today - 2,550 years later. This gives new meaning to "there is nothing new under the sun." I see plenty of fat "slaves" today. In fact, fatness has become an epidemic in our country. The amount of freedom we have is an inverse ratio to the amount of fat people in our society. Thus, the more fat people, the less freedom. Those on welfare and the food stamp program don't realize that they are in fact slaves to the government. The only difference is instead of wearing the iron chains of the plantation slaves, they wear velvet chains. Either way, they are still chains. Instead of the "big house" on the plantation, it's the White House. The iron chains are easier to break than the velvet chains because there is no incentive to break the soft life.

When you think about it, this observation has a lot of truth to it. In today's world even the wealthiest aren't as free as the homeless person who posseses only what he can carry and can move about as freely as the animals in the forest. They pay no taxes, no insurance, no mortgages, no licence fees (although our town did manage to squeeze them for "panhadler's" licences." But pure freedom has it's drawbacks too. We cannot live completely free of familial and financial obligations unless we want to live like animals. That life is not for everyone.

Paine's words are as true today as they were in his time. Liberal progressives have believed the tripe they have been fed by Communists and Marxists for so long that they and other ignorant folk believe it. They think that collectivism is the only way to survive in a dog-eat-dog capitalist world. The government will protect these whiners, professional victims, and just plain useless flotsam from the cradle to the grave because they believe it is their God-given right to have the government take care of them. This unsavory portion of society has grown so large and are so active at the voting booth that it will be hard to defeat them. And even if we do, it will only serve to make them dig their heels even deeper to force the government to overcome the freedom loving people of America once and for all. It is no accident that both Bush and Obama were educated in the same Ivy-Leage schools and were taught that progressivism is the new wave for society. Progressives have only one goal and that is destroy the American way of life and to convert the unwashed masses to their way of dictatorship "for the good of society." Heil Obama!

Einstein lived through and understood how an idealist (Hitler) can incremenetally subsume a society by changing the meaning of words and by hiding the truth and by blatantly lying to the public. I don't know of one DemocRAT nor more than a few RepublICANs who honor the truth and are unafraid to reveal it to the public.

Although today, the legal term LICENCE is a lawful permit to do something, there is another older meaning: "...intentional disregard of or a deviation from conventional rules to achieve a certain effect, i.e. Poetic Licence." I believe Edmund Burke meant the word in terms of a willful, uncontrolled, licentious way of life.

The more I read this quote, I think that if you replaced the word "fear" with "worry" then it makes a little more sense. But the rest of the quote is still bogus.

I see that Archer has studied the Tao (way). While I believe that once you have committed to something, you should follow it through to its logical end, I think that one first should sincerely ask the question, "what is the truth?" When I read this in John (18:37-38) it blew me away. Jesus had stated that "I am the truth." and Pilot asked him "What is the truth?" Pilot left the room without waiting for an answer. I'm sure he thought that truth is whatever he says it is. The bible tells us that Jesus is the truth, the way. But it leaves it for us to decide who or what the truth is. And so I think that until you know what the truth is, what good is going on a road of truth? Anyone can declare a truth. In today's topsy-turvy world, who decides what the truth is? Is it Clinton saying, "It all depends on what the meaning of 'is' is." ? Is Jesus the truth or is the "way" the truth?