The American Tea Party Handbook - 2

The American Tea Party Handbook – 2
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, December 11, 2009

President Reagan ideas are like pebbles for David against Goliath. Other weapons are common sense, reasonableness, Constitution and Founding Fathers.

Government:
The more government we can keep at local levels in local hands, the better off we are and the more freedom we will have. Students, April 12, 1973

Common Sense practices of the private sector will work in government if you will just give them a chance. Interview, Sept. 18, 1973

Heaven help us if government ever gets into the business of protecting us from ourselves, Students, April 12, 1973

To be more responsive to the people, we must have enough government to carry out all of government’s legitimate responsibilities, but not one bit more. Speech, Sept. 7, 1973

The tragic inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems, it subsidizes them. Speech, Nov. 14, 1974

For too many years, government has been growing is size and power with no regard for the economic consequences. And government loves it. Oct. 15, 1974

Wisdom in government is not a one-way street that always runs downhill. More often, the higher up the ladder of government you go, the less common sense you find. Speech, Oct. 15, 1973

Government in the United States at every level has been on a long financial drunk. We are in the first stages of the hangover: inflation and debasement of the dollar. And we beset by helpful souls who have us believe that what we need is more of what got us into this condition to begun with.

For a look at where we will be if we do not sober up in a hurry, hark back to Germany of the 1920’s. Workers were given time off every two hours to spend their earnings before the value of their money dropped. Germans carried 50,000 mark notes for lunch money. And that wild inflation brought them, finally, an Adolf Hitler. Speech, Oct. 15, 1973

Prosperity is something created by people and their industries and business for which government takes credit. There are always those who insist government must keep pace with our free society by increasing in size, in cost and ultimately and inevitably in power. It will not come as a shock to you. I am sure, to hear that even though I am part of government, I disagree… Speech, Aug. 6, 1973

George H. Kubeck – THE ABOVE FROM THE QUOTABLE RONALD REAGAN – J.R. HOLMES