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The Iron Lady will be Missed

08 Monday Apr 2013

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maggie One of the world’s greatest leaders died Monday, April 8, 2013. The “Iron Lady”, former British Prime Minster Margaret Thatcher, died of a stroke at age 87.. Her passing reminds us just how devoid our time is of real leaders. Rather our politicians are appeasers who throw money at the masses to get re-elected. No room for principles today.

 

Following are some of the Prime Minister’s best quotes. My favorites are at the top.

 

“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”

“To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.”

“To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.”

“There is no such thing as Society. There are individual men and women, and there are families.”

“Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.”

“We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society; not a society where the state is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the state.”

“Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money. It’s quite a characteristic of them.”

“I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.”

“I am not a consensus politician. I’m a conviction politician.”

“Defeat — I do not know the meaning of the word!”

“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.”

“I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.”

“To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.”

“It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.”

“I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.”

“I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”

“If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.”

“You need quite good shock absorbers and a sense of humor to be the Prime Minister’s child.”

“I don’t mind how much my ministers talk, as long as they do what I say.”

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The Steel Ceiling of Dependency

25 Tuesday Sep 2012

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One of the big lies that the Democrat Party wants you to believe is that everyone in the lower, middle and upper class are the same people year after year. In reality people move up and down through the classes routinely. Do you remember the time when everyone dreamed of doing well and becoming wealthy? That is the American dream. And we all want our children to do better in life than we did. Now wealth is demonized by the Democrats.

Obama wants the lie to be reality. The Congressional Budget Office reports that 45 million people in 2011 received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits (food stamps), a 70% increase from 2007. This is expected to continue to grow through 2014. The strategy is to keep the same people dependent on the federal government for their day to day needs. This locks in votes at the expense of human dignity.

Ronald Reagan wisely stated that we should measure compassion by the number of people we take off of welfare, not add to it. He also believed in America’s greatness and in the greatness of America’s people. Obama and the Democrat Party do not believe in the spirit of the American people. They do not believe that they are capable of success without the giant helping hand of the federal government. Hopefully the people will realize that one hand of the government is handing out goodies the other is pushing down on the heads of Americans so that they remain stuck in the despair of dependency.

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Our Naive Leader, Peace through Wuss

13 Thursday Sep 2012

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Candidate Obama constantly talked about how the world has come to dislike and distrust us because of George Bush’s policies. He said that Bush was mean to other countries and that we need a friendlier approach. If we just would talk and be nice to other countries there would be world peace. His foreign policy platform called for talking to the world terrorists, reaching out to Muslims, and disarming. He gleefully promised to reduce our “investment” (the left’s favorite way to say spend) in our missile defense.

The left (Democrat Party) always prefer diplomacy to strength. In part this is due to their desire to spend money to support their re-election but it also shows their naivety. They do not understand that the only thing that terrorists fear and respect is strength. When they kill four Americans there should be an instantaneous reaction of killing ten times that many terrorists. Obama has weakened America and the Muslim world (synonym for terrorists) smell blood in the water.

Muslims have been the world’s terrorist for centuries. This is a result of government and religion being one. The religion of Islam teaches its people that the world must be all either Islamic or dead. They brainwash the children early to hate America and Israel anyone who is not of their faith. No amount of talking is going to change this.

Obama’s administration banned the term war on terrorism. They called the shooting of our troops at Fort Hood by a Muslim as workforce violence. They were quick to call the killings of four Americans in Libya as by a small group of people, and specifically said that the government of Libya was not involved.  Really?

Ronald Reagan’s three most important pillars of national security policy were (1) peace through strength; (2) trust but verify; and (3) beware of evil in the modern world. Thanks’ to his leadership and steadfast application of his pillars communism collapsed. The Soviet empire crumbled.

The first pillar, “strength”. For Reagan strength was both military and economic strength. And he would never apologize for our military power. He understood that it created the peace. And he would never demonize prosperity. That is right from our Constitution, the right to pursue happiness.

The second pillar was used to monitor treaties and arms deals, but went well beyond that. The third pillar is one easily forgotten in peaceful times. Reagan understood that there is evil in this world. New forms of evil exist in addition to the traditional forms of evil like communism. This has been eroded over the years by the mammoth weight of political correctness. Many politicians in both parties and the main stream media are afraid to equate terror with Islam. For the press it is probably more ignorance and naivety than anything else. For politicians it is fear of demagoguery.

If you cannot identify your enemy you will never defeat them. We are at war with the terrorists of Islam and always will be. We need leaders who understand that.

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Wise Words

21 Saturday Jul 2012

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Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Ronald Reagan

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"Senator, my belief is we have to stay focused on a military that is so lethal that on the battle field it will be the enemy's longest day & worst day when they run into that force," - General James "Mad-Dog" Mattis

“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.” — H.L. Menken

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."

Thomas Jefferson

"The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife."

Teddy Roosevelt

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.
John Marshall, McCullough v. Maryland, 1819

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Ronald Reagan

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