Do you think the founding forefathers would be happy about America now?

Question

I bet Thomas Jefferson just cant wait to marry George Washington.

Answer 1

I think they'd be ashamed at the rampant abuses of the federal government, not just recently but for the past half-century.

The whole concept of the federal government was to be one of limited enumerated powers and minimal taxation. The concept of a 40% income tax and bloated bureaucracy would be abhorrent.

Answer 2

I don't think that Martha would go for that. I do believe that George Bush as never read or does not understand the greatest speech given by a War President. The Gettysburg Address is the Greatest Speech given by any President.
In the Gettysburg speech, Lincoln attributes both the soldiers of the south and of the north as acting out God's will for the United States. Lincoln did not blame the enemy, and he did not waste a lot meaningless words on the his own War dead, the Union Soldiers on the Battlefield. He placed the meaning and the importance of the outcome on the Almighty expressing his desire on all the Americans together including soldiers who fought and the ones who died at Gettysburg both Northern and Southern soldiers. It was a unifying speech. It was not a speech delivered to divide the Country but to Unite the Country. That is the American way.

Answer 3

No, I don't think they'd like it and it has nothing to do with same-sex marriage.

Bottom line about marriage in any form, it is one of the 7 Sacraments of every religious denomination.

Unfortunately, the government has used this as a smoke screen to divert from things such as rebuilding New Orleans, creating a National Healthcare System for under-insured families and children. The United States has it's own problems around poverty, homelessness and a few other social ills. Why does it think that it can tell other countries or sanction other countries into doing what the United States don't take care of it's own citizens? What's that scripture about plucking the splinter out of your neighbors eye when you have the tree in yours?

Answer 4

You are truly ignorant.

No, the founding fathers would not be happy because bush keeps using the Constitution like toilet paper. Did you ever see the Constitution? Do you EVEN READ??!? The Constitution talks about life, liberty, and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. If someone is gay, THAT IS THEIR HAPPINESS. If you want to come on here and continue to write ignorant garbage, that is YOUR HAPPINESS. There is also a SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. Right now, too many people are pushing religion on someone else, which is why Muslim nations are getting stronger in the Middle East, and people are turning away from Christianity. YOUR president is doing a great job with the Constitution as well. How about that privacy thing? How about the phone tappings. Seem he doesn't read the Constitution either...

Answer 5

Thomas Jefferson would be angry that the U.S. is no longer agricultural. George Washington would cry, and James Madison would hang himself.

Answer 6

Thomas Jefferson would incite a revolution.

He hated newspapers. He hated centralized banking.
He hated it when people traded their liberty for perceived safety.

He hated it when people used Religion to enact laws. He would of fought to the death many of the bills, amendments and laws that have passed in the last 100 years.

Answer 7

Thomas Jefferson said, "If your 3rd cousins' aardvark wants to marry the Gardner's Venus Fly Trap, it takes no bread off my table", but he forgot to write it down.

Answer 8

I think that Bush would be impeached, and most of his cronies kicked out or in jail. I don't think we'd have thousands of new graves and coffins coming home everyday. I don't think we would have killed tens of thousands of innocent people in a "war" that our President lied to begin and now dismisses as a "MISTAKE". I think our founding fathers would be angry and disgusted.

Debating gay marriage is a lovely diversion for folks like you. Seems to me you could be paying attention to the world chaos our Government has and is creating rather than sweating about who marries who.

Answer 9

Absolutely not! This world is going crazy...everything from basic morals of people to terrorism on American soil.. They were a very religous group and if anyone back then tried to take God out of everything, they would burn them at the stake.. Hmmm, maybe they were right and this world wouldn't be falling apart at the seams...

Answer 10

No,I don't think they would,as far as Thomas liking George,I don't think he was his type.