Good blog coatesd How Obama

Resistance — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 03:48:05 +0000

In reply to Celebrating Independence by Seeking to Regain It

Good blog coatesd

How Obama Can Fix the Housing Market and the Economy

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-r-talbott/how-obama-can-fix-the-hou_b_884890.html

I like this mans idea

Merchants have no country.

Resistance — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 03:47:45 +0000

In reply to Celebrating Independence by Seeking to Regain It

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasjeff138493.html

Encouraging Home Manufacturing

"My idea is that we should encourage home manufactures to the extent of our own consumption of everything of which we raise the raw materials." --Thomas Jefferson to David Humphreys, 1809.

Preferring American-Made Products

"Experience has taught me that manufactures are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort; and if... [we will purchase] nothing foreign where an equivalent of domestic fabric can be obtained without regard to a difference of price, it will not be our fault if we do not soon have a supply at home equal to our demand, and wrest that weapon of distress from the hand which has wielded it." --Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Austin, 1816. ME 14:392

"The prohibiting duties we lay on all articles of foreign manufacture which prudence requires us to establish at home, with the patriotic determination of every good citizen to use no foreign article which can be made within ourselves without regard to difference of price, secures us against a relapse into foreign dependency." --Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Say, 1815.

"I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may." --Thomas Jefferson to B. S. Barton, 1815. ME 19:223

http://www.famguardian.org/Subjects/Politics/ThomasJefferson/jeff1450.htm

"To make [arms] within ourselves... as well as the other implements of war, is as necessary as to make our bread within ourselves." --Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Harrison, 1779. Papers 3:126

"The establishing a manufacture of arms... would make us independent for an article essential to our preservation." --Thomas Jefferson to Patrick Henry, 1785

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I remember a visit to Colonial Williamsburg.

An actor portraying Patrick Henry warned his fellow citizens, something like this “You have one year to settle your debts with the Crown, after that, anybody found with British goods in their shops and in their homes, would be tar and feathered and put out of town”

We dont need to be isolationists we only have to be smarter. We can trade our surpluses only to the extent it doesnt hurt us to do so. DOH!

Thanks again for another great blog coatesd

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Good blog coatesd How Obama

Merchants have no country.