Mar 09
Link to this 4-block.
The 4-block site is always interesting. His technique distills things to the heart of the matter.
Link to this 4-block.
The 4-block site is always interesting. His technique distills things to the heart of the matter.
March 9th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Lincoln only freed Confederacy slaves.
“The proclamation did not free any slaves of the border states of Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, or Delaware. In West Virginia, only the slaves in Jefferson County, which was added to the state late in 1863, were freed under the Proclamation, all the other counties being exempted.”-Wiki
“Several former slave states passed legislation prohibiting slavery; however, some slavery continued to be legal, and to exist, until the institution was ended by the sufficient states’ ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment on December 18, 1865.”-Wiki
Obama enslaved everyone.
March 9th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Where is his amendment?
March 10th, 2009 at 8:00 am
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/02/022943.php
No Amendment required, his legacy is obvious. It’s indentured servitude.
His Congress will effectively nullify that part of the 13th Amendment by not enforcing it and levying punitive taxes onto all earners for trumped up crimes of financial fraud. http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/financial_crimes.shtml
“ Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.â€
March 10th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Don’t believe me?
“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our selection between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat in our drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labors and in our amusements, for our callings and our creeds…our people.. must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live.. We have not time to think, no means of calling the mis-managers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow suffers. Our landholders, too…retaining indeed the title and stewardship of estates called theirs, but held really in trust for the treasury, must…be contented with penury, obscurity and exile.. private fortunes are destroyed by public as well as by private extravagance.
This is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering… And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in it’s train wretchedness and oppression.” Thomas Jefferson
March 10th, 2009 at 8:51 am
I believe!
March 10th, 2009 at 8:57 am
Sounds like Jefferson’s opposing Hamilton’s idea for a funded national debt, the cornerstone of government finance and credit. What did TJ have to say about Pitt’s sinking fund and debt plan that enabled England to succeed over France? Should we call Jefferson hopelessly naive about financing a government?
March 10th, 2009 at 8:59 am
it all worked until the amendments were changed to allow unfettered reaching into pockets. That plus increasing number of women and other dependents voting plunged into a spiral that can’t be escaped from lacking revolution or total collapse.
March 10th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff1340.htm
TJ hated even paper money! No public debt was his creed.
He was not adverse to borrowing big money or taking a risk, as long as the whole deal was secret. LA purchase of $15M was a loan from Britain at 6%; Lewis & Clark funding of $25,000, ultimately $50,000 was a big risk of money and getting caught, blowing the purchase deal. It was ultra secret!