Obama Is Going To Pay For My Gas And Mortgage!!!

[wacki]

Today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI

And I found this interesting quote:

The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a "warm body" democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction.... Once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader ? the barbarians enter Rome.

I'm not so sure about the history/accuracy of that quote but it makes me wonder if history is about to repeat itself. 

[Werewolf]

For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death,

FDR (may his socialist soul burn in hell) started the ball rolling.
LBJ pushed it down the hill and the ball picked up real speed.
BHO will finish the job and the USA as we know it will have bled to death.

RE: the quote - I think the original was written by some 16th or 17th century English guy. Don't know who but he was a historian or something and writing about Democracies in general. He was right.

[wacki]

turns out the title is wrong.  It's "worry" about gas not "pay" for gas.  So the video is not nearly as bad as what I first thought.  Still, I wonder how far this mentality goes.

[RadioFreeSeaLab]

She says she won't have to worry about it.  Clearly she thinks she'll be getting some sort of financial help.

[Monkeyleg]

The mentality goes pretty far.

After Obama made his "spread the wealth" remark, a local conservative talk show host did a segment on the subject.

A liberal called in to defend Obama's position. So the host started asking the caller what other things he thought the government should give people.

"What about a house?", the host asked. The caller said that people need houses.

College educations? The caller wasn't quite sure, but then said that maybe some people should get free college.

What about free cars? The caller said he already had a car, so he didn't need one. But some other people might.

The host ran through an unbelievably long list, and it was equally unbelievable how many items on the list the caller thought the government should provide.

I guarantee that this caller is not alone in this extreme line of thinking.

[Manedwolf]

A liberal called in to defend Obama's position. So the host started asking the caller what other things he thought the government should give people.

"What about a house?", the host asked. The caller said that people need houses.

Didn't they try that in the Soviet Union? The block-long edifices of crumbling concrete misery?

[buzz_knox]

The host ran through an unbelievably long list, and it was equally unbelievable how many items on the list the caller thought the government should provide.

I guarantee that this caller is not alone in this extreme line of thinking.

Did he ask about sex or other relationships?  I bet there are liberals that think this should be mandated/provided. 

[Ned Hamford]

Did he ask about sex or other relationships?  I bet there are liberals that think this should be mandated/provided. 

I would like to go on record as being wholly against the redistribution of lovin.
 

[HankB]

You guys . . . 

Look there's no denying that capitalism's blessings have been spread unequally. Under Barack Hussein Obama, socialism's misery will be spread much more widely.

Get with the program - heretics! 

[freedom lover]

I would like to go on record as being wholly against the redistribution of lovin.

You greedy bastard!!

Didn't they teach you in day care that everyone belongs to everyone else!? Imagine, keeping a woman all for yourself!