Maybe so traveling outside the country. I have encountered a few foreigners in my travels around western America the last couple of years. We usually end up having a few laughs over beers at t and his slaves.
Happy Birthday USA!
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Maybe so traveling outside the country. I have encountered a few foreigners in my travels around western America the last couple of years. We usually end up having a few laughs over beers at t and his slaves.
Bruddah IZ
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You don't say. Lol!
Im a big fan of Thomas Jefferson.Hamilton vs. Jefferson
ELISE COOPER
Americans need to be grateful to Thomas Jefferson for giving us the language and values of liberty and freedom.
Jefferson strove to make the American government everything that the British government was not. As historian Ron Chernow said in his bookAlexander Hamilton, Hamilton’s Federalist Party was “elitist in its politics and tended to doubt the wisdom of the common people.” No one ever mentions that Hamilton believed that the President should have power for life, similar to the King of England.
Hamilton went so far as to call for a new Constitutional Convention to revise the Articles of Confederation. His plan was to have a permanent president who would appoint all the governors and who would have veto power over all state legislation. Under such a plan, state sovereignty would have been destroyed, and there would have been no escape from the central government's high taxes.
Murray Rothbard, who wrote The Mystery of Banking, said Hamilton wished to “reimpose in the new United States a system of mercantilism and big government similar to that in Great Britain, against which the colonists had rebelled. The object was to have a strong central government, particularly a strong president or king as chief executive, built up by high taxes and heavy public debt.”
Chernow goes on to say, “Jeffersonians called themselves Republicans, believing in limited federal power, a dominant Congress, and states’ rights who credited the wisdom of the common people.” In other words, he was an anti-Monarchist. Historian John Boles, who wrote Jefferson: Architect of Liberty, noted to American Thinker, “Jefferson was not opposed to strong government as long as it stayed within it Constitutional bounds. He believed in political power from the people.”
Hamilton’s autocratic notions versus Jefferson’s beliefs can be viewed with their attitude toward a central bank. Granted, Hamilton was correct in recognizing that the U.S. economy was a total mess. The Revolutionary War had left a huge debt with no plans on how it would be paid off. Some states simply repudiated the debt, making it more difficult for other states to borrow money and rebuild their economies. Yet, Jefferson complained that the bank created a national banking elite and gave them extraordinary power and wealth at the expense of ordinary citizens of the country.
Rothbard stated, the “Bank of North America was deliberately modeled after the Bank of England. The Bank was given a monopoly privilege of its notes being receivable in all tax payments to state and federal government, and no other banks were permitted to operate in the country. It graciously agreed to lend most of its newly created money to the federal government, while the hapless taxpayers would have to pay the Bank principal and interest."
Because the bank would have unprecedented control over the economy it would also have leverage over the government. Jefferson believed this would render U.S. commercial policy hostage to Britain. He warned that this policy concentrated powers in the hands of a small number of wealthy men in only one section of the country. This British domination of American trade harmed this nation’s economy and crippled small local industries. Boles noted that even a fellow Federalist, President John Adams, became more and more convinced that Hamilton was the largest threat to the constitutional form of government, someone with Napoleonic ambitions.
Those who enjoyed the Hamilton play should remember that it has a fictional element to it. In reality Hamilton wanted an Aristocratic America, and that is was Jefferson who was protective of individual rights. This July Fourth people should refer back to history, not revisionist history, to understand the beliefs of Alexander Hamilton versus Thomas Jefferson.
The author writes for American Thinker. She has done book reviews, author interviews, and has written a number of national security, political, and foreign policy articles.
Me and my friends have a few laughs too.
Thank you, and Happy Independence Day.
I already had a red, white and blue cupcake with my morning coffee, so I did a quick survey of the beer options in the espola family refrigerators. I have remnants of 6 different purchases, three American and three imports (Mexico, Japan, and Belgium). I chose the bottle of Sam Adams for its patriotic symbolism.
Reserved for later - decisions about what to do with the Mexican Coca Cola and the Canada Dry.
Reserved for later - decisions about what to do with the Mexican Coca Cola and the Canada Dry.
Atta boy.
I got the pork shoulder in the barrel smoker, shirt off out in the sun, and a bloody Mary in my hand.
God Bless America.
Sheriff Joe
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Bye.
Sheriff Joe
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Why dontdoyou go to canada with husker? IIam sure they allow queers to marry there. commie.
Hüsker Dü
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Pork ribs smoking, brats boiling, corn soaking, Blueberry cobbler baked, veggies chopping, flags flying . . . Red (barbecue sauce), White (corn) and Blue(berry cobbler)!
So what do you think of the government-funded subversion NPR is practicing today?
Sheriff Joe
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Who's house are you at?
Pinkos will be pinkos.
Hüsker Dü
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Your attempts to de-patroit-ize fellow Americans, especially on this day, is telling of your extreme party first allegiance. Lighten up, light one up, have a cold one, kiss the ground you stand on and be grateful for a country that allows you your opinion and right to hate if you wish . . . just seems a waste of time hating people you simply disagree with.
Bruddah IZ
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But you don't have that problem.
Bruddah IZ
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Are you feeling less patriotic as a result of?
Bruddah IZ
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Everyone knows what voracious readers you people are.
3rd paragraph Magoo...
Only for fucking cowards....
Sheriff Joe
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That's the problem with libs, they can't take a joke.
Sheriff Joe
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Consider the source.