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The people we elect aren’t the ones calling the shots, says Tufts University’s Michael Glennon Jordan Michael Smith The Boston Globe 10/19/2014 THE VOTERS WHO put Barack Obama in office expected some big changes. From the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping to Guantanamo Bay to the Patriot Act, candidate Obama was a defender of civil liberties and […] October 19th, 2014 | Tags: “double government”, apathy, bureaucracy, Michael J. Glennon | Category: Barack Obama, Books/media, Congress, Education, Elections, Government, National Security | Comments are closed
Col. Frank Ryan, CPA American Thinker 11/27/2012 …In the experiences that I have had assisting companies and organizations avoid bankruptcy, there is a very predictable pattern that organizations face when they are dealing with serious financial problems. The pattern involves economic growth and prosperity followed by overspending. From overspending and excess comes a period of […] January 27th, 2013 | Tags: Alan Greenspan, apathy, bankruptcy, currency, entitlement reforms, Mitt Romney, national debt, natural resources, personal responsibility, Rep. Paul Ryan | Category: Barack Obama, Economy, Elections, European Union, Federal spending, George Soros, Germany, Immigration reform, Politics, Progressives, Socialism, unfunded liabilities, Unions | Comments are closed
Patrick Caddell Breitbart.com Big Government 8 Sep 2012 It’s hard to know which is worse: the arrogance of the Obama administration in assuming that its White House staffers can get away with anything, or the apathy of the media in not holding those staffers accountable. Actually, let’s scratch the word “apathy” and call it what […] September 9th, 2012 | Tags: 2012 Democratic National Convention, apathy, Bill Clinton, Bob Woodward, Chicago, cronyism, David Axelrod, David Plouffe, Desiree Rogers, George Stephanopoulos, Grove Parc Plaza, leaks, Molly Norris, Pat Caddell, political elites, scandal, Thomas E. Donilon, U.S. Secret Service, Valerie Jarrett | Category: Barack Obama, corruption, Ethics, Fannie Mae, Health Care, Illinois, Iran, lobbyists, Media accountability, Michelle Obama, National Security, Politics, Progressives, Socialism | Comments are closed
Rosslyn Smith American Thinker 3/21/2012 Turnout was simply dreadful, the lowest in many people’s lifetime… …Admittedly many Illinois voters are post party politics after decades of corruption by Democrat and Republican alike but this low of turnout is not a healthy sign. Low turnout tends to means one of two things. Sometimes low turnout means […] March 21st, 2012 | Tags: apathy, incumbents | Category: Barack Obama, Elections, Illinois, Politics | Comments are closed
28 January 2012
We live under a republican form of government. We need forever to remember that representative government does represent. A careless, indifferent representative is the result of a careless, indifferent electorate. The people who start to elect a man to get what he can for his district will probably find […] January 28th, 2012 | Tags: apathy, Calvin Coolidge | Category: corruption, Government, Quotations | Comments are closed
11 November 2010 “God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of […] November 11th, 2010 | Tags: apathy, liberty, Thomas Jefferson | Category: Quotations | Comments are closed
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