What Conservatives Are Saying about the Congressional Bailout(S)

Posted by MAXIMUS

Things are spiriling out of control when it comes to the handouts that the Congress and President Bush are doling out to PRIVATE INDUSTRY in America. How would a real American respond to this situation?

You know the names of those who presently comprise the Virginia Congressional Delegation. However, Rob Whitman, Thelma Drake, Bobby Scott, J. Randy Forbes, Bob Goodlatte, Virgil Goode, Eric Cantor, Jim Moran, Rick Boucher, Frank Wolf, Tom Davis, Senator Jim Webb, Senator John Warner, Senator-elect Mark Warner and Rep-Elect Gelnn Nye, (possible) Rep-Elect Tom Perriello, and Rep. Elect Gerry Connolly should take great caution in listening to the wisdom of those who saw the future of our present day Government. Herewith are lessons:

"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -- Ben Franklin

"I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is ``needed'' before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents ``interests,'' I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can." -- Barry Goldwater

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." -- P.J. O'Rourke

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." -- Thomas Jefferson (think big labor unions in Detroit who want to be bailed out by the taxpayers simply because they build an inferior product that is no longer selling)

"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." -- Daniel Webster

"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." -- Thomas Sowell

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be... if we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed." -- Thomas Jefferson

"We both alike know that in the discussion of human affairs the question of justice only enters where there is equal power to enforce it, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must." -- Thucydides