[Rhodes22-list] Thank you Brad

[Brad Haslett]

Ed,

Those words were written by Rev. J.H. Boetcker, a German immigrant to
the US and are often mistakenly attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

My job for the near term is to console my wife and convince her things
are not as bad as they seem and that we're a resilient nation. Our
history has been one of tacking one way and just as quickly tacking
the other.  It won't be an easy sell to someone from a family that
suffered through one Cultural Revolution and now feels like she's
facing another. In an effort to lift her spirits I quoted Chairman
Mao, "it's always darkest before dawn, then it's completely black".

On second thought, maybe that wasn't the best choice of words.

Brad



On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
>
> Brad thanks for your words, references, and statement:
>
> "You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
> You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
> You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
> You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer.
> You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
> You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
> You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
> You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
> You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and
> independence.
> You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should
> do for themselves."
>
> You did not cite any reference?  Your words?  If so, assign credit at end,
> 'Brad Haslett'.
>
> And I say again, it is important to read history and understand the picture
> that history presents.  I remain convinced that Obama views history and
> economics from the Marxist perspective.
>
> If you take the Ben Franklin approach of evaluating economic history, that
> separate the +'s and -'s and add them up, history has shown that humanity
> has benefited more from systems other than Marxism based.  The condition of
> mankind in total has changed dramatically since the development of
> democratic capitalism.
>
> Socialism in its various forms has created misery, death and destruction.
>
> Having read many of Obama's words I felt that he tried not to be as Marxist
> as his teachers.  But, that was and still is a question, an issue that goes
> to integrity, honesty.
>
> I remain knowing that you can be honest and candid and succeed in politics.
> If he goes Marxist, then he will have at least been honest.  If he goes
> middle road then he will confirm my suspicions.
>
> "The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine
> right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge - I mean of the
> character and conduct of their rulers"   John Adams
>
> Ed K
>
>
>
>
> --
> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Thank-you-Brad-tp20340306p20340306.html
> Sent from the Rhodes 22 mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
>
> __________________________________________________
> To subscribe/unsubscribe or for help with using the mailing list go to http://www.rhodes22.org/list
> __________________________________________________
>