AMERICAN LIBERALS! Thomas Jefferson Quote!?

Question

TJ Said (sic) America should undergo a revolution every 20 years to prevent against the tyranny of evil men! Or are you too busy with getting the latest Coldplay tickets and BMWs to worry about the current administration! JHFC! prisoners are starving themselves at Gitmo! Oil Barons run your country! Do you even care? Do you remember FL 2000?

Answer 1

It's scary how much Jefferson, Madison, and Franklin predicted in their sayings and how badly they're ignored today when their philosophy is most applicable.

Hey, JFK quoter...figure out what "liberty" means and we'll see which way that quote applies. JFK also said (quoting Teddy Roosevelt), when asked to sing a bar of his favorite song:

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else. "

http://www.worldofquotes.com/author/John-Fitzgerald-Kennedy/1/index.html

Sgt_K: Reality check man, on that $3.00 a gallon, the refinery makes about $0.10 profit (PLUS the initial cost of the barrel of oil), meaning the sale price is slightly higher. The OIL company that drills the oil sells it at market value, currently around $70/barrel. The retailer (often owned by the same oil company that refined and drilled the oil, ie Shell) pockets all but the tax rate, which runs at around 17% excise on gas. Sum total, Shell, Conoco, Exxon, etc pocket around $2.50 on every $3.00 gallon sold.

Answer 2

The problem with you liberals is that you CANNOT forget the election of 2000 and admit that George W. Bush won fair and square. Newspapers - many of them liberal - recounted and examined every ballot cast in Florida and George W. Bush won EVERY SINGLE TIME.

The election of 2000 and your inability to forget it are why you libs will not win the elections in November this year. Instead of looking forward to the future and trying to solve America's problems, you consistently insist on looking back to 2000 and dreaming up ways to subvert George W. Bush's presidency at any cost.

1. I say let the prisoners starve themselves. They are terrorists and the world is better off without them. What do you propose? That we let them go so they can commit more terrorist acts like the one who blew up the hotel in Pakistan and killed 40 people after he was released?
2. Oil barons DO NOT run the country. Oil companies sell a commodity that is in huge demand. They only make 10 cents per gallon of gasoline they sell. At $2.75 per gallon, that is a 3.6% markup - hardly what I would call price gouging.

Keep up the ****-poor analysis, Jocko!!

Answer 3

Here's another Liberals comments which I think you'll like but not understand.

JFK

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

We are paying any price, bearing the burden, meeting the hardships and supporting our friends all the while opposing our foes both the insurgents and the liberals in this country who continue to paint a picture of doom and gloom.

Answer 4

There are too many "yes men" that we vote into office to do anything about it. But remembering FL 2000, do you believe that there is anything you can do about it, it proves that what is intended by the men in power will be.

Answer 5

I actually had to laugh at "Liberty Guy" who thinks that because we've managed to usher in a government in Iraq that is sympathetic to IRAN (ummm....aren't they part of the axis of evil?), that we've struck a powerful blow for liberty. The $300 billion price tag has certainly struck a blow against fiscal stewardship, but liberty? I don't think so.

And of course, to secure this "liberty" it has somehow become necessary to tap our phones, track our every phone call, and track every search engine search we make....But, hey, that's a small price to pay to give Iran a new ally.

Answer 6

If your so worried about the terrorists (oops, I meant "freedom fighters") at Gitmo then send them your food...Oh, and when they get out let them move in with you...

I could see it now...one night you'll be asleep when you hear, "Infidel dog...death to non-believers", just before they hack off your head.

Gobble, gobble, gobble...

Answer 7

Yea dude. Too busy ridin in my Ferrari and smoking my pot.

Answer 8

Can I just move to your utopian nation? Which one was that again?