On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > > "Lincoln was a pinko bastard!" > > That's not something you hear every day.
If he was Presiding today, we probably would. Don't you think? > One of the reasons why I am opposed to slavery is just here. I take it that > it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he > can. Some will get wealthy. I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from > getting rich; it would do more harm than good. > > Free society is such that [a man] knows he can better his condition; he > knows that there is no fixed condition of labor his whole life. I am not > ashamed to confess that twenty-five years ago I was a hired laborer, mauling > rails, at work on a flatboat -- what might happen to any poor man's son. I > want every man to have the chance -- and I believe a black man is entitled > to it -- in which he can better his condition -- when he may look forward > and hope to be a hired laborer this day and the next, work for himself, and > finally to hire men to work for him. That is the true system > > And so it may go on and on in one ceaseless round so long as man exists on > the face of the earth. > > Abraham Lincoln He was a smart dude. My problem with your use, is that you've been implying that today, in America, what he wrote here isn't the case. I find that kind of insulting. What is preventing me from getting rich? (A hint: it's not The Government/Taxes, or Socialism, or Obama) Healthcare isn't socialism, any more than "freeing the slaves" was socialism. "Some people" are doing what they can to tear the union apart, and it's not those working for the betterment of our nation-- Obama, for instance (in general) -- it's folk like Beck and Rush, and obviously, their supporters. Those spreading hate. I hate hate-spreaders. ;-) I love to love. I find it more constructive and conductive to even more love. Woohoo for Love! A round of warm fuzzys, on me! :Den -- It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. Michel de Montaigne ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:326265 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
