“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
Thomas Jefferson
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City of El Paso debt=$2,670,400,000, county and school district debt=$1,600,000,000. Total $4.27 billion. Your share $19,350
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I wonder if he had that same attitude towards the slaves he “took care of?”
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I understand he viewed slaves as a cash crop.
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Meanwhile, the government is not doing much “taking care of” us these days, with SH45 and the Greedy Old Perverts running things, is it?
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If you’re concerned about people in our government taking care of us, you need not worry. They’re too busy taking care of themselves and the people who give them money.
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That was a man of immense wisdom who foresaw what we now detest in the liberals of our current era.
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He also did not like religion…that is why he seperated it from government and made his own bible, cutting out all the “miracles” which he considered hogwash.
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If, as you say, Jefferson “did not like religion,” he wouldn’t have had any copy of the Bible and wouldn’t have spent time studying it. Cutting and pasting his own version of the Bible is no different than how some people choose to live and practice only certain parts of it.
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