It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What is required from members of Congress and the public alike is a new spirit of devotion to the national welfare beyond party or self-interest.
It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.
Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.
Presidents always want to do nice, noble, long-run things, and Congress is less keen to do so. We've seen that throughout the history of this country.
Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
We are united around a simple goal, and that is keeping the government open while protecting our constituents from the harmful effects of Obamacare.
This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.