The president declared, “But to all my friends in Congress, understand that how business is done in this town has to change. Because we’ve all got a lot of work to do on behalf of the American people – and that includes the hard work of regaining their trust. Our system of self-government doesn’t function without it.”
Nonetheless, it would be exceedingly difficult to make a strong argument that the Founding Fathers regarded trust in government as necessary for self-government. In fact, they created a system of checks and balances to keep ambitions in check.
“All men having power ought to be mistrusted,” wrote James Madison to Thomas Jefferson.
“The way to have safe government is not to trust it all to the one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to everyone exactly the functions in which he is competent,” Jefferson wrote.
THE POTUS SPEAKS:
“[N]othing has done more to undermine our economy these past three years than the kind of tactics that create these manufactured crises,” the president said accusingly.
“Deep recessions are supposed to be followed by strong recoveries, but, under Obama, the worst recession since the 1930s has been followed by the slowest economic recovery in the history of the republic. In a very real sense, there has been no recovery at all – things are still getting worse,” wrote Louis Woodhill.
Job creation also has been slow, too slow to keep pace with job losses.
Back in April, when the official unemployment rate was 7.6 percent, Forbes found so many Americans had given up looking for jobs and left the workforce, the real unemployment rate was 14.3 percent.
The CEO of the company that runs the fast-food restaurants Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s said what’s really killing job creation is Obamacare.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/count-obama-whoppers-in-debt-deal-speech/#rcdH3G6gA358H7j9.99
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