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Happy Birthday Tom Cruise.
And by Tom Cruise I mean Freddy.
And by Tom Cruise I mean Freddy.
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23 straight Stanley Cups. suck it, hat
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Looking good for 241 years old, America.
Board members, who is your favorite Founding Father, and why?
I'll go with Robert Morris. He financed the revolution, was later left
Penniless and thrown in jail, his friends deserted him, and he pretty
much lost everything. Managed to turn It around and have two
Colleges/universities named after him. An oft forgotten guy who
Does not always get enough credit for his contribution.
Board members, who is your favorite Founding Father, and why?
I'll go with Robert Morris. He financed the revolution, was later left
Penniless and thrown in jail, his friends deserted him, and he pretty
much lost everything. Managed to turn It around and have two
Colleges/universities named after him. An oft forgotten guy who
Does not always get enough credit for his contribution.
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Murica!
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Happy birthday to the greatest country I've ever lived in!
Eddy, my man!
Eddy, my man!
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Happy Birthday America! And Happy Birthday @Freddy Rumsen. You're a great American
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Proper southern pronunciation:
Joo-lie
Joo-lie
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241 years and still the single greatest political document ever penned. Would that we still lived by it... Happy Birthday DoI, nevertheless.
In memoriam, I offer the following:
https://fee.org/resources/not-your-to-give-2/
In memoriam, I offer the following:
https://fee.org/resources/not-your-to-give-2/
“‘It is not the amount, Colonel, that I complain of; it is the principle. In the first place, the government ought to have in the Treasury no more than enough for its legitimate purposes. But that has nothing to do with the question. The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be intrusted to man, particularly under our system of collecting revenue by a tariff, which reaches every man in the country, no matter how poor he may be, and the poorer he is the more he pays in proportion to his means. What is worse, it presses upon him without his knowledge where the weight centers, for there is not a man in the United States who can ever guess how much he pays to the government. So you see, that while you are contributing to relieve one, you are drawing it from thousands who are even worse off than he. If you had the right to give anything, the amount was simply a matter of discretion with you, and you had as much right to give $20,000,000 as $20,000. If you have the right to give to one, you have the right to give to all; and, as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe, or profess to believe, is a charity, and to any amount you may think proper. You will very easily perceive what a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people on the other. No, Colonel, Congress has no right to give charity. Individual members may give as much of their own money as they please, but they have no right to touch a dollar of the public money for that purpose. If twice as many houses had been burned in this county as in Georgetown , neither you nor any other member of Congress would have thought of appropriating a dollar for our relief. There are about two hundred and forty members of Congress. If they had shown their sympathy for the sufferers by contributing each one week’s pay, it would have made over $13,000. There are plenty of wealthy men in and around Washington who could have given $20,000 without depriving themselves of even a luxury of life. The congressmen chose to keep their own money, which, if reports be true, some of them spend not very creditably; and the people about Washington , no doubt, applauded you for relieving them from the necessity of giving by giving what was not yours to give. The people have delegated to Congress, by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay moneys, and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation, and a violation of the Constitution.
“‘So you see, Colonel, you have violated the Constitution in what I consider a vital point. It is a precedent fraught with danger to the country, for when Congress once begins to stretch its power beyond the limits of the Constitution, there is no limit to it, and no security for the people. I have no doubt you acted honestly, but that does not make it any better, except as far as you are personally concerned, and you see that I cannot vote for you.’
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What a buzz kill.
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Keepin' it REALZ. As it should be!
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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The only way Freddy would be more 'Murican is if he was actually a bald eagle with a pistol in his beak and talons full of food he will ultimately let spoil before eating it.
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I am tanked and freddy bleeds hotdog sandwiches
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This is my favorite post so far in 2017.23 straight Stanley Cups. suck it, hat
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