Jan. 5, 2009

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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History Repeating

That dark cloud on the horizon is not the usual financial storm we experience every so often.  This one is a flock of those we-will-pay-later chickens coming home to roost.   We will soon have a new president who inherits a mess created by his fellow politicians.  With a few minor adjustments, I would love to hear him repeat the Oliver Cromwell speech to Parliament in 1653, for it accurately describes the current bunch in Washington :

“It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money;  “Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you?  Is there one vice you do not possess?  Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?  “Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lords temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices?   [read more...]

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