Danger--America Becoming Statist: First Bush, Now Obama


	Danger--America Becoming Statist: First Bush, Now Obama

blueridge

10-29-2009 11:26 PM

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statism, bush, obama, security, constitution, nanny state, police state, bill or rights

blueridge says:

Note: First the Security or Police State then the Nanny State. This is a must-read article, and hopefully an eye-opener to those still stuck in the "left" or "right" paradigm of thinking of partisan politics, both of which pick and chose which parts of the Constitution they want to dismantle for desired ends.

Put the Bush and Obama policies together, sprinkle in a couple more terrorist attacks, and one or two more state-caused financial calamities, and you have a recipe for . . .

* The destruction of American liberty
* The blossoming of a Leviathan State

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