Nice video from one of the best men that ever graced the oval office.

YouTube - 50s Commercial with Ronald Reagan

 

Yup. With all these incidents where uninvited people are getting into White House parties and dinners and shaking hands with the President...

Kind of makes you wonder if the Secret Service is trying to drop a hint to Obama, doesn't it?.

 

Free bread and health care for the masses. It worked out well for the Romans, or did it?

I figured you would click the link Dr. Dirt.

 

Ronald Reagon --- a Legacy

Our Emperor --- a puppet

 

Yes, John, I'm predictable. I'm just a mean ol' conservative, war mongering, neo-con, hater.

And it feels good.

 

I hate to be the black sheep of the forum, as usual, but you people DO realize Australia has a partially socialized healthcare system that blows ours out of the water and has worked for a long time now, right?

I mean, I'm not saying the bill they just passed has any semblance of something as good as their system, but just saying...you die hard conservatives who want to keep all your money haven't considered the fact that a dual tiered healthcare system, when executed properly, would actually cost you less than what you have to shell out indirectly right now.

 

Bottom line, health care is not the business of the government. Yay for OZ. Nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.

If you have some insight as to where in the Constitution it says the Government can do what they just passed, please point it out. Nobody who voted for that bill has been able to do that. They merely say that most of the things they do are not granted to them in the Constitution either. Big surprise there. How 'bout we do something about that crap too?

You also make a foolhardy leap of faith in assuming that the government can execute a program properly when they can't even execute terrorists properly.

 

Me either, fucking 'Roos. But they still have better healthcare.

No proble, I direct you to the preamble to the Constutiton of the United States of America:

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Now, fines and bullshit like that? No way, I don't think they have the right to do that, but I never insinuated any differently. As for providing some semblance of healthcare? Oh yes, I believe this gives them the authority to do that.

Again, the system I am talking about IS currently in effect in Australia. And it IS working out better than our system. I'm not making any assumptions. Its working right now, as we type.

 

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.


The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

T. Jefferson

 

Upon exiting the Constitutional Convention. Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman, "What kind of government have you given us?" Franklin responded with one of the most famous quotations in history, "A Republic if you can keep it."