Ditto, J.Carlton.

Mr Weaver said it well. I hope that we don't learn this the hard way. Kudos to Mike and Anon.

He was later killed and hung upside down, a fitting end.

Obama and the usual suspects are fiddling away our freedoms and we are paying through the nose. He will most likely be a one termer but can we survive even one with this Marxist in the white House?

For an interesting look at this great founding father, read "The Essence of Jefferson", by Martin Larson.

Nice going Joe, from a fellow Libertarian.

The war between the states was not fought to free the slaves. Lincoln had no interest in freeing the slaves.The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in certain states. The war was fought over secession. Read "Lincoln Unmasked" for more information. You will never see old "Honest Abe" in the same light again.

If the free market existed in agriculture, food products would be far less expensive. As an example, dairy product prices are propped up by the government as in the case of cheese. The government buys up cheese at an arbitrarily inflated price, stores it in giant warehouses and then gives it away.All, of course, at taxpayer expense. No one in our Congress dares to speak out against this for fear of losing votes in their next election. This is especially true in the farm belt. This is classic vote buying.

Under Communism in the Soviet Union, 3% of the people, the rulers, lived in luxury while 97% lived in abject poverty and misery. I suspect that this percentage holds true in countries such as Cuba and N Korea.

A good example of this is in "education". We keep throwing money to schools hoping they will get better,and they never do. And, naturally, liberals always want to spend more which is their answer to every problem, real or imagined.

If not ashamed of it, he's certainly scared of it.

Waff, your comment that our taxes are not high enough to balance the books is rediculous for two reasons. When taxes are lowered, not raised, the economy improves and more taxes flow into the treasury. Number two is even if higher taxes sent more tax money to Washington, the politicians would just spend it, they wouldn't "balance" any books.

A hundred billion is chump change compared to what Obama, Pelosi,Reed,and the rest of the Marxists in Washington have in store for us. Zeitgeist and J Carlton summed up perfectly what is happening right now.

Anonymous, they would if government got out of the way.

Yes, it's" demonstrated in every page of history" but we never seem to remember history, and very little history is taught in our public schools.

400 billion here,400 billion there ,and sooner than later it adds up to real inflation.

I think Davy had it nailed.

While I am not aware of the context of this quote, I'll go with Mike and Anon on this one.

Right on Mike and Anon. If memory serves,1913 was the year that we got the Marxist progressive income tax and the Federal Reserve Act. Things started downhill after 1913 and we have reached bottom with the current crowd in D.C.

Anon, My brother-in-law is a successful lawyer in Ohio. I mentioned "jury nullification" to him and he had never heard of it and I doubt that you will ever hear a judge mention it while charging a jury. This is a shame as jury nullification is a citizens last bulwark against bad laws.

The answer is simple, our government.

Silent Cal is exactly right. Waffler, we are wise to you. You're putting us all on since nobody could be as stupid as you seem to be. For you folks with some brains and can read, get "The Income Tax, Root of all Evil." It's long out of print but still available on Amazon. Even Waff might benefit if he can find someone to read it to him.

Does this mean that Obama, Nancy, Harry, Barney, and the usual suspects aren't going to take care of me? Not to worry, with this fine group in power I'm sure that we will all get ours in the end.

The government takes your money and then gives some of it back. It's like a person giving himself a transfusion by taking blood from one arm, putting in the other arm, and spilling half of it in the process.

Komrads Dick, Jack, and Reston, how on earth could leaving my money in my pocket be in any way greedy? Reston, this is not a zero sum game, if someone is good enough to make $5000 or a million dollars an hour, it doesn't cost me or anyone else a dime. You socialists never seem to learn anything about money except to turn it over to politicians.