Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Another young white man with ice water for blood gives Republicans goosebumbs



Reagan was a fool, but he did make types like this rich, so he's God damn George Washington.

As for Senator Rubio, it's the usual "let's undo the 20th century as a bad mistake" lines:

These programs weakened us as a people. You see, almost forever, it was institutions in society that assumed the role of taking care of one another. If someone was sick in your family, you took care of them. If a neighbor met misfortune, you took care of them. You saved for your retirement and your future because you had to. We took these things upon ourselves in our communities, our families, and our homes, and our churches and our synagogues. But all that changed when the government began to assume those responsibilities. All of a sudden, for an increasing number of people in our nation, it was no longer necessary to worry about saving for security because that was the government's job.

For those who met misfortune, that wasn't our job to take care of them. That was the government's job. And as government crowded out the institutions in our society that did these things traditionally, it weakened our people.


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