Maggie's Farm

Good old Polonius told Hamlet "neither a borrower nor a lender be." My good old father was less elegant but more far sighted. "You let someone loan you money, they'll think they own you and can tell you what to do."

That's what the Democrats are trying to do to the companies and banks they've loaned our tax money to, in order to 'bail them out.' Now the Administration is planning to extend the loans, and their power play, to smaller banks and companies. No good can come of this, for these commercial entities and for us. They loaned these commercial entities money so now they own them. It's all part of the power and control thing that the Democrats are trying to do in every area, from our health care, to how we heat and cool and light our houses [cap and trade], to what we entertain ourselves with on television, to what we read and how we express ourselves on the Internet, and, last but not least, what legislators we vote for.

Such sweeping changes have taken place. In an eight month period, the country and its people are being relentlessly shoved toward a socialistic/communistic society. When we protest, more than a million strong in Washington on 9/12, they simply ignore us as if we didn't exist, and plod forward on their mission to destroy democracy as it has existed in this country for more than 200 years. The arrogance of them is only exceeded by their ignorance.

Today is the birthday of the USS Constitution, that grand old vessel from a braver simpler time. What would those sailors think if they could see us now?

Marianne