230 years made them reverse positions on every issue and want to maximize rather than minimize government, so you are like them, and people who actually support what they did are nothing like them, we are "reactionary, like the dumbest of Americans." The people who think what they did, that government power should be limited and divided with the States.
You need to type your crap down and read it sometimes before you click enter. Like here.
What they did matters very ******* little now dummy. They were men not gods. It's written on paper not carved in stone. It can be changed, the entire form of government can be changed, they expected us to make changes which you would know if you'd learn about them beyond your Ayn Rand Sunday School Americanism.
No idea what that's supposed to mean. I support what they wrote, you oppose everything they wrote. But you are saying that because you use the name liberal, you are their heir, even though you oppose all their views. Got anything related to that?
You don't support shit, and you don't know shit. No Liberal looks back 230 years and says Hey, let's live just like they did you ******* dummy. That's what makes you a reactionary, and a ******* stupid one.
Strawman, I never said anything about living "just like they did," you ******* retard. I talked about limited government and why they wanted it and it still applies today. You aren't saving us, you are destroying us.
Founding Fathers wanted to "Spread the Wealth"
If there was one thing the Revolutionary generation agreed on — and those guys who dress up like them at Tea Party conventions most definitely do not — it was the incompatibility of democracy and inherited wealth.
Estate tax and the founding fathers You can t take it with you The Economist
Why Thomas Jefferson Favored Profit Sharing
By David Cay Johnston
The founders, despite decades of rancorous disagreements about almost every other aspect of their grand experiment, agreed that America would survive and thrive only if there was widespread ownership of land and businesses.
George Washington, nine months before his inauguration as the first president, predicted that America "will be the most favorable country of any kind in the world for persons of industry and frugality, possessed of moderate capital, to inhabit." And, he continued, "it will not be less advantageous to the happiness of the lowest class of people, because of the equal distribution of property."
The second president, John Adams, feared "monopolies of land" would destroy the nation and that a business aristocracy born of inequality would manipulate voters, creating "a system of subordination to all... The capricious will of one or a very few" dominating the rest. Unless constrained, Adams wrote, "the rich and the proud" would wield economic and political power that "will destroy all the equality and liberty, with the consent and acclamations of the people themselves."
James Madison, the Constitution's main author, described inequality as an evil, saying government should prevent "an immoderate, and especially unmerited, accumulation of riches." He favored "the silent operation of laws which, without violating the rights of property, reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise extreme indigents towards a state of comfort."
Alexander Hamilton, who championed manufacturing and banking as the first Treasury secretary, also argued for widespread ownership of assets, warning in 1782 that, "whenever a discretionary power is lodged in any set of men over the property of their neighbors, they will abuse it."
Late in life, Adams, pessimistic about whether the republic would endure, wrote that the goal of the democratic government was not to help the wealthy and powerful but to achieve "the greatest happiness for the greatest number."
http://www.newsweek.com/2014/02/07/why-thomas-jefferson-favored-profit-sharing-245454.html
American School (economics)
Closely related to
mercantilism,
it can be seen as contrary to classical economics. It consisted of these three core policies:
- protecting industry through selective high tariffs (especially 1861–1932) and through subsidies (especially 1932–70)
- government investments in infrastructure creating targeted internal improvements (especially in transportation)
- a national bank with policies that promote the growth of productive enterprises rather than speculation
Frank Bourgin's 1989 study of the Constitutional Convention shows that direct government involvement in the economy was intended by the Founders.
American School economics - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia