Comments on: U.S. To The World: 'Don’t Worry Be Happy' https://barelyablog.com/us-to-the-world-don%e2%80%99t-worry-be-happy-2/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Myron Pauli https://barelyablog.com/us-to-the-world-don%e2%80%99t-worry-be-happy-2/comment-page-1/#comment-14454 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:41:25 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=4511#comment-14454 One should read Grover Cleveland’s 2nd inaugural: [http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres39.html] “..Manifestly nothing is more vital to our supremacy as a nation and to the beneficent purposes of our Government than a sound and stable currency. Its exposure to degradation should at once arouse to activity the most enlightened statesmanship, and the danger of depreciation in the purchasing power of the wages paid to toil should furnish the strongest incentive to prompt and conservative precaution….. The verdict of our voters which condemned the injustice of maintaining protection for protection’s sake… It perverts the patriotic sentiments of our countrymen and tempts them to pitiful calculation of the sordid gain to be derived from their Government’s maintenance. It undermines the self-reliance of our people and substitutes in its place dependence upon governmental favoritism. It stifles the spirit of true Americanism and stupefies every ennobling trait of American citizenship. The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its functions do not include the support of the people. The acceptance of this principle leads to a refusal of bounties and subsidies, which burden the labor and thrift of a portion of our citizens to aid ill-advised or languishing enterprises in which they have no concern….”

]]> By: gunjam https://barelyablog.com/us-to-the-world-don%e2%80%99t-worry-be-happy-2/comment-page-1/#comment-14453 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:41:55 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=4511#comment-14453 U.S. To The World: ‘Don’t Worry Be Happy’

Ms. Mercer: Are you sure you don’t mean: “What, Me Worry?” (a la Alfred E. Obama)?

]]> By: Steve Hogan https://barelyablog.com/us-to-the-world-don%e2%80%99t-worry-be-happy-2/comment-page-1/#comment-14452 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:21:53 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=4511#comment-14452 It’s a sad commentary on the state of affairs when the French look fiscally responsible by comparison. Stop the train. I want to get off!

By the way, I think you meant to write “madmen in charge” rather than “mandmen in change.” On the other hand, when Obama and crew get done “stimulating” our economy, pocket change is all we’ll have left.

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