tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post1725669203436139665..comments2024-03-29T11:05:38.781-04:00Comments on Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org : Only Government Can Set You FreeDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-36618812076106348852011-04-18T13:25:49.195-04:002011-04-18T13:25:49.195-04:00Great analysis! How I would like to see this publi...Great analysis! How I would like to see this publicized throughout the nation. Great description of how the flow of power operates and how our Constitution was designed to control it. <br /><br />I feel as if we are preaching to the choir and the hordes of unwashed masses continue to sing off-key. When socialists expound on their foolish ideas, there is no end to the words they use to avoid knowing the truth.silentnomore9https://www.blogger.com/profile/04581905704380323969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-38002003242814502132011-04-17T22:29:30.395-04:002011-04-17T22:29:30.395-04:00Excellent essay on the nature of statist governmen...Excellent essay on the nature of statist governments. Reminded me of that Twilight Zone "cookbook," episode, "How to Serve Man." Many people who demand to be "served" are asking to be eaten. And many regard government-sourced entitlements as "rights." Who pays for those "rights"? They don't want to know, although they sense it's some poor fool working his tail off making ends meet, but they feel safe and sanctimonious, because they don't need to look him in the face, nor dare to. Wonderful essay, Daniel, it ought to be included in an anthology of such essays.Edward Clinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160209827969614964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-41747293785129291002011-04-17T16:11:19.383-04:002011-04-17T16:11:19.383-04:00Forgot to add the urbanization you speak of is exa...Forgot to add the urbanization you speak of is exactly why the Founders set up the electoral college to offset the effects of said urbanization.Mikeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-62064946745873331952011-04-17T16:09:04.457-04:002011-04-17T16:09:04.457-04:00As usual, another excellent article Daniel.As usual, another excellent article Daniel.Mikeynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-56581928672004174182011-04-17T14:37:24.861-04:002011-04-17T14:37:24.861-04:00Keli, I agree. We are very close to those times.
T...Keli, I agree. We are very close to those times.<br />The western nations need to begin asking themselves <i>why</i> we merit the leaders we have now. <br />Certainly society itself has taken a turn for the worse, the very much worse.<br />I feel these times are coming on us so that people will have no other choice than to rely on God and change their ways.<br />Humans rarely do things to easy way. They wait until the crisis comes.Chana @ Lemon Lime Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11656854855385193867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-12666632003106589702011-04-17T10:26:58.794-04:002011-04-17T10:26:58.794-04:00We can only pray that our citizens decide that onl...We can only pray that our citizens decide that only G-d sets us free, but we must act on our faith and be willing to follow through on it.<br /><br />Maybe then G-d will do what he did to Pharaoh--take away his free will. OT and probably out of left field but I do think we're getting close to the time when G-d takes away the free will of our tyrants (individual leaders and collective leaders/governments).<br /><br /><br />Beware when G-d takes away our free will, no more second chances to do the right and moral thing. <br /><br /><br />I've always found that one of the scariest parts of Pesach, more than any of the plagues. Maybe it's crazy to think of Pesach having scary elements but G-d taking away free will has always scared me.Keli Atahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05089132216830000713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-21787684133406509952011-04-17T10:06:33.504-04:002011-04-17T10:06:33.504-04:00Right you are, Lemon.
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"However the...Right you are, Lemon.<br /><br /><br />******<br /><br /><br />"However the turmoil of the 20th Century, the long struggles against Nazism and Communism and the social trials of the Great Depression and the Civil Rights movement, caused Americans to think of government as a source of rights, rather than a defender of rights."<br /><br /><br /><br />An important distinction indeed.Keli Atahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05089132216830000713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-86100336061228097752011-04-17T08:56:53.926-04:002011-04-17T08:56:53.926-04:00"Government health care is an excellent examp..."Government health care is an excellent example both of government redefining rights as services, and the enormous expenditures involved in trying to supply a service to every individual."<br /><br />Private for profit insurance companies don't see senior citizens as an asset as much as a liability. They are sick often and their illnesses are more severe. They are an expense. I don't see anyone other than the government willing to reimburse healthcare providers for the services to the elderly at this same high level that government will. Private insurers to remain profitable will minimize how many elderly get enrolled, and reimburse the minimum health services they can get away with.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-25577399757093740532011-04-17T05:17:47.179-04:002011-04-17T05:17:47.179-04:00"The power to tax is the power to destroy.&qu..."The power to tax is the power to destroy." -- John C. Marshall<br /><br />The federal govt destroys our individual freedom through the federal income tax, and the crushing debt it imposes on each and every U.S. citizen through its borrowing to finance its power-grabbing schemes, such as Obamacare and TARP.Epaminondasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-21237530292864250052011-04-17T02:51:47.309-04:002011-04-17T02:51:47.309-04:00Only G-d can set people free for real.
Losing sigh...Only G-d can set people free for real.<br />Losing sight of that is why people become enslaved to government and tyranny.Chana @ Lemon Lime Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11656854855385193867noreply@blogger.com