A friend posted the following quote from Barack Obama:
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”
~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006
Reading this quote and the discussion that followed reminded me of another quote, and I thought I'd share.
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable and most sacred right, a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world."
~ a first-term congressman from Illinois in 1848
Abe Lincoln - the leader of the War of Northern Aggression.
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You are very right, sir! Isn't it amazing that he so quickly seemed to change his mind too?
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