Monday, June 8, 2009

Where is Our Daniel Hannan????

Is there anyone within our Congress that will stand up to the Obama administration (without apologizing) as Daniel Hannan did with in Parliament??? Take a look . . . . . I say, "Hurrah!"






"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." (James Madison)

"The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is... legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay ... If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system." (Frederic Bastiat)

"Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways; hence, there are an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, bonuses, subsidies, incentives, the progressive income tax, free education, the right to employment, the right to profit, the right to wages, the right to relief, the right to the tools of production, interest free credit, etc., etc. And it the aggregate of all these plans, in respect to what they have in common, legal plunder, that goes under the name of socialism. " (Frederic Bastiat)

Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was a French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before - and immediately following -- the Revolution of February 1848. This was the period when France was rapidly turning to complete socialism. As a Deputy to the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Bastiat was studying and explaining each socialist fallacy as it appeared. And he explained how socialism must inevitably degenerate into communism. But most of his countrymen chose to ignore his logic. (Constitution.org)

Now where do you think we are as a country?

2 comments:

Tonia said...

I love this video. I love the 'pathologically capable of these things' part. And of course the idea that we cannot borrow our way out of debt. When was this and would he consider becoming a United States citizen? We need him over here!

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Where is Our Daniel Hannan????

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