Saturday, September 04, 2010

German's - We've stopped being American

de' Tocqueville, Part Zwei
US becoming too … European

Both the behavior of the American government and the Federal Reserve makes one thing clear: They do not see the solution to the US’s economic woes in a return to traditional American virtues. Obama is not calling for the unleashing of market forces, as Ronald Reagan once did during an equally critical period in the early 1980s. On the contrary: Obama, driven by his own convictions and advised by economists who believe in government intervention, has taken a path that leads far away from those things that catapulted America to the top of the world in the past century. - Der Spiege, via Hot Air
Remember Part One?
There are certain populations in Europe whose unbelief is only equaled by their ignorance and their debasement, while in America one of the freest and most enlightened nations in the world fulfills all the outward duties of religion with fervor.  - Alexis de' Tocqueville 1835


2 comments:

Alear said...

Nice pull, Rodg. I'd like to also recommend this American Thinker article. Quick quote:

"For the first time in modern American political debate, the liberal label gun is jamming. Worse for liberals, the bullets will likely never be effective again."

DougM said...

To quote an obscure thinker (me),
"America is not Europe and hasn't been since 1776.
That's the whole friggin' point of America."

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