“They [Congress] seemed…to be at a loss for objects whereon to throw away the supposed fathomless funds of the treasury.” – Thomas Jefferson

“I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.”  – Thomas Jefferson

Pardon my cynicism, folks, but I know that I am largely wasting my time—and probably the reader’s, too—with all these articles I write on history, quoting our Founding Fathers and other great men of the past on the proper nature of government and man. Given the current “zeitgeist” in America, nothing is going to change, regardless of how many articles I, or others, write explaining the wisdom and foresight of the men who founded America. There are simply too many people now who believe in government, who are sucking off the government teat, who believe in the “pretense of [government] taking care of them,” who want government to take care of them, who would rather be in slavery and dependent upon government than have self-control, individual responsibility, and virtuous liberty. As long as they have enough money to live the licentious, self-centered, pleasure-oriented lifestyle they crave, they don’t care where their money comes from, or who gets hurt by what they do. And........

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