tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2555123713188257297.post5208765952211568715..comments2023-12-14T21:55:11.213-05:00Comments on Mitchell Langbert's Blog: Is a New American Revolution Morally Justified?Mitchell Langberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00722335216553899790noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2555123713188257297.post-23280819875841088262009-01-28T22:22:00.000-05:002009-01-28T22:22:00.000-05:00"They tell us we are weak, unable to cope with so ..."They tell us we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when will we be stronger? Will it be next week, or next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed?" ~Patrick Henry~ <BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, by the time we reach your tipping point, we will be disarmed.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13183516318282971797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2555123713188257297.post-18746193369142922952009-01-25T22:20:00.000-05:002009-01-25T22:20:00.000-05:00AJacksonian: Thanks for your always excellent idea...AJacksonian: Thanks for your always excellent ideas.Mitchell Langberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722335216553899790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2555123713188257297.post-14234632975717759442009-01-25T21:19:00.000-05:002009-01-25T21:19:00.000-05:00We have lost the wisdom of learning that the discu...We have lost the wisdom of learning that the discussion of 1787-89 should never be ended: the 'Anti-Federalists' were not against a federal Republic, indeed some criticized the Constitution on not being federal *enough*. That <A HREF="http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2007/05/warnings-of-founding-generation.html" REL="nofollow">rich discussion</A> between all sorts of individuals looks very much like the blogging of today. For every Brutus (and some of his points were quite cogent) and deeply moving thinker like John Jay, we get a Luther Martin who could fly off the handle or Alexander Hamilton who was far too dismissive of other's arguments and too trusting in the good nature of man to be constant over time.<BR/><BR/>We have come to forget that representative democracy is in service to the Republic, not to democracy itself: that the laws we abide by in common are more important than popular will to power. The concentration in power is horrific in the modern day, and there has never been an excuse for it. We now have wide ranging companies with far more employees needing to act than the scanty few we have in Congress and that unrepresentative minority in Congress now, as was warned about, grow closer to each other in common interest and more distant to the people they are to be serving.<BR/><BR/>The more I read of <A HREF="http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2008/09/your-friendly-authoritarian-bailouts.html" REL="nofollow">earlier decisions to distribute banking</A> the wiser it looks. One bank with a hundred billion to gamble or a hundred banks with a billion? You do increase marginal cost per bank, but you have a near rock solid guarantee that *all of them* will not fail simultaneously. Our intervention along the lines of Hamilton is the problem as political government is not set up to be wise fiscally and economically, nor are 'experts' any guarantee of good decision making, as we have seen.<BR/><BR/>All Americans were to share in the burden of our common government by taxation per person, that the States could figure out how to gather. That was a check and balance on federal over-reach... gone to the wave of 'progressivism'. So too is the check of State governments putting their mark in the US Senate. Yet another vital inter-federal check and balance now gone to 'progressivism'. Is it any wonder we got long standing corrupt politicians who could vote in such huge budgets? They have no check upon them and we do not feel the pain of federal government at the deepest, poorest levels of society. That was supposed to keep the government from taking too much... knowing it would take from the poor.<BR/><BR/>Gone now.<BR/><BR/>We have sought expedient and efficient government.<BR/><BR/>Dictatorships are very efficient.<BR/><BR/>Representative democracies in service to a Federal Republic? That as made to be inefficient so it would be kept small and allow liberty to grow. It was the opposite of expedient as every penny would have to be argued about... no longer...<BR/><BR/>We are destined to be a Nation that raisese the banner 'No Taxation Without Representation' yet again.A Jacksonianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07607888697879327120noreply@blogger.com