‘NEW FEDERAL CONSUMER AGENCY reportedly wants to monitor US credit card and mortgage transactions through a controversial data-mining program that sounds eerily similar to controversial NSA programs.’
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom — go from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands that feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were even our countrymen! Sam Adams. 1776
“..Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.”
Rudy Giuliani
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/20/nyregion/freedom-is-about-authority-excerpts-from-giuliani-speech-on-crime.html
We have the politicians we deserve. Otherwise, some bastard making a statement such as that would have been hanged within minutes of making it.
Did you really say that, Rudy
TREASON
Rudy, say it’s not so
He did.
Government never stops growing, ever. I’m reading Mark Steyn’s After America now and from what he’s saying, the rot set it decades ago and no matter who is president, the nanny state has never stopped growing.
There is a fair amount of – government they deserve – in America, but I also acknowledge that they don’t have much choice either. If there is a way out for America, they certainly haven’t found it.
“If there is a way out for America, they certainly haven’t found it.”
Yet.
If anybody can, Americans can.