There shouldn't be any mandates dictating what products private industry should be told to create. Rather we should have the Federal Government encourage the exploration of fossils fuels, instead of pushing regulations poised on it's demise like the coal industry. This administration is hurting the economy by pushing government regulations to "dictate" behavior in enforcing policy towards a green ideological agenda. Our nation still depends on fossil fuels to generate our electricity, and if this administration doesn't want to allow a huge expansion of nuclear power plants, they should stay out. Wind power and solar can not effectively supply power in the same manner that conventional fuels can, they are still inferior in their capacity and technology to deliver. Encouraging the private sector in the nation's need for fossil fuel exploration, as well as allowing the "exploring" of green energy together, is the best way to bring our economy back. This micromanaging because our President prefers green energy, Obamacare, more government spending, and higher taxes is what's stifling growth. Government simply needs to get out of the way and allow the private sector to grow, spend, invest, and expand.
You know, it's Monday of a new week --- and the George Washington quote in your sig is
still bogus. But let's give it another week, maybe he'll come back and read his script like a good myth.
The complete unabridged quote for you to meditate on:
"Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence … from the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable … the very atmosphere of firearms anywhere restrains evil interference — they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.”
-- and you
still can't source it.
You couldn't find anybody to read the links to you? You really wanna embarrass yourself to this degree?
>> This quotation, sometimes called the "liberty teeth" quote, appears
nowhere in Washington's papers or speeches, and
contains several historical anachronisms: the reference to "prairie wagon" in an America which had yet to even begin settling the Great Plains (which were owned by France at the time), the reference to "the Pilgrims" which implies a modern historical perspective, and particularly the attempt by "Washington" to defend the utility of firearms (by use of statistics!) to an audience which would have used firearms in their daily lives to obtain food, defend against hostile Indians, and which had only recently won a war for independence.
The "99 99/100 percent" is also an odd phrase for 18th century America, which tended not to use fractional percentages. It's clear that "Washington" is addressing "gun control" arguments which wouldn't exist for another couple of centuries, not to mention doing so in a style that is uncharacteristic of the period, and uncharacteristic of Washington's addresses to Congress, both of which exhibited a high degree of formality.
This is a false quote, but bits and pieces of it still continue to crop up from time to time. Even national publications, such as Playboy magazine, have been snared by it. (Playboy published the "quote" in December 1995 as part of an article entitled "Once and for All: What the Founding Fathers Said About Guns".
After consulting with an assistant editor of the George Washington Papers at the University of Virginia, Playboy published a lengthy correction in March 1996.) << (from the first link, the pro-gun site)
The complete myth-quote is
already in that site. And the others, more inclusive than yours -- including the reference to "prairie wagons". Of the future.
Your evidence for its existence: --
Zero.
DUH.