maxrandb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Fri Sep-23-11 09:25 AM
Response to Reply #3
16. Most of these right-wing a$$hats
Have no idea what the "Articles of Confederation" are. If you asked 100 Teabaggers what the Articles of Confederation are, 87 of them would respond that it was memorabilia from the Civil War.
Amazingly, these idiots who "claim" to love the Constitution sooooo much, worship a failed document that our Constitution replaced.
How bad was it under the Articles of Confederation? Well, here's one take from the "pinko-commie-big gubmint" guy, George Washington.
George Washington had been one of the very first proponents of a strong federal government. The army had nearly disbanded on several occasions during the winters of the war because of the weaknesses of the Continental Congress. ... The delegates could not draft soldiers and had to send requests for regular troops and militia to the states. Congress had the right to order the production and purchase of provisions for the soldiers, but could not force anyone to supply them, and the army nearly starved in several winters of war.
Yeah, that was "good times" under the AOC, huh?
Washington wanted the United States to be able to collectively defend themselves, so logically he wanted an all encompassing government? I didn't know Washington wanted the government to pay people not to work, manage their retirement planning (poorly), tell them what was approved for the classroom, fine people for improving their property, pass down nonsensical and contradictory edicts, and generally run amok.
Perhaps you remember this document:
When in the course of human events.....
Wel, take a long gander at this line, in the list of reasons it was necessary:
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
Is it just me, or do I t see a swarm of officers (meaning government bureaucrats) harassing our people and eating (via wages earned by taxation) out their substance?
Washington was no fool.
