ronaldrwl
02-27-2011, 10:20
Darkside Test:
"__________ is not fair. The government should fix it"
If you find yourself using this statement beware of the darkside.
With a few exceptions like upholding "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness", the government should stay out of our lives and our pocketbook. If they don't then in the beautiful words of Thomas Jefferson:
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it"
Just reading this makes feel better. A good way to start the day :)
"__________ is not fair. The government should fix it"
If you find yourself using this statement beware of the darkside.
With a few exceptions like upholding "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness", the government should stay out of our lives and our pocketbook. If they don't then in the beautiful words of Thomas Jefferson:
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it"
Just reading this makes feel better. A good way to start the day :)