"The Forgotten Man"William Graham Sumner
Sumner employed an algebra to explain what he meant by
"The Forgotten Man"
: A and B want to help X, he wrote. This is the charitable impulse.
The problem arises when A and B band together
and pass a law that coerces C into co-funding their project for X.
Sumner identified C as the forgotten man.
He is the man who works, the man who prays, the man who pays his own bills,
the man who is "never thought of."
Adapted from a lecture on the Hillsdale College campus July 24, 2007, by Amity Shlaes“Reprinted by permission from Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College.”
I believe...The Forgotten Man was more if an indictment against A and b than an algebra creating C.
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"A State which dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile
instruments in its hands…Will find that with small men, no great things can
really be accomplished." John Stuart Mill, 1859
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IT is a part of a man's heart and soul, that he provide for his family and if he can't,
his pride and spirit is broken. Because the Federal Government costs so much and taxes so much,
a large sector of our population is incapable of providing for themselves or a family.
So they give up.
They have nothing and no hope of getting anything.
If you have nothing...you have nothing to lose!
If you have nothing to lose...you do things you normally wouldn't do...
(You don't get married because you know you can't provide...instead you join gangs...
become a gangbanger...show your masculinity in different ways)
Our Governments spending and Tax laws have broken the American spirit.
With Government so dependent on cash flow, it is like a black hole...sucking the life
out of our economy and people lose self respect and hope, all the while becoming more
dependent on more Government help.
We are at a critical point right now and the future of America lies in the success or
demise of the middle class.
Yes, the future of Americans depends on the middle class.
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We hold these truths to be self evident.
1. That Politicians
(Congress & the President) do not and can not create jobs.
People buying products, creates jobs.
2. That rich people are not job creators.
People buying products, creates jobs.
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Have you ever got in your car and when you took off, you see a bug on the windshield.
Now that bug just happens to be there, he doesn’t have to be, he just was.
Now as the cars speed increases...that bugs perception of everything changes.
That bug, we have all seen them, must hang on.
The faster we go, the tighter it holds on.
Faster now and it must feel as though its life depends on hanging on.
It doesn’t know that by hanging on it actually put its life in peril.
Faster and faster, it holds on tighter and tighter.
It can think of nothing else but holding on. And now it held on too long.
If it does loose its grip, it may be hurt or in an unfamiliar place.
It is time to let go of a few things. I’m not talking about extremes, I’m talking
about spending bills that, by themselves, probably wouldn't survive.
It is time think about spending at the federal leval.
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"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept" Ansel Adams
We are now in the fledgling stages of Universal Health Care here in America.
While plunging into Universal Health Care, we are trashing a Health care system that may not
have been perfect but in many ways it provided better diagnosis and care than anywhere else in the world.
It is wrong to eliminate what is so good about ours, and plunge our entire
Country into a system that has bankrupt so many others. Go to Healthcare.
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In a free society, where people are elected democratically,
voters should be able to choose their representatives.
As long as the voters are happy with the job their representatives
are doing, they should have the right to choose them over and over again.
What we do need however is Term limits for Staff, Aids and Lobbyists.
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"abusus non tollit usum""The abuse of a thing does not cancel the reasons for its proper use"
St. Thomas Aquinas.
The founders of this Country intended the Members of
The U.S. House of Representatives to live in their
districts and be an integral part of their community.
That would enable them to go to Washington D.C.
and truly represent their community.
Then go back home and live by the laws they enact. Go to US Congress.
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