Read this on the Web at http://patriotpost.us/edition/2011/06/13/brief/ Brief · June 13, 2011 The Foundation "Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression." --James Madison Government Congress doesn't have many experts on the issues, but they did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. "In the course of any given year, Congress votes on taxes, medical care, military spending, foreign aid, agriculture, labor, international trade, airlines, housing, insurance, courts, natural resources, and much more. There are professionals who have spent their entire adult lives specializing in just one of these fields. The idea that Congress can be competent in all these areas simultaneously is staggerin...

"During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted, inasmuch as they tend to lessen its usefulness and to sap its safety." --Thomas Jefferson, Second Inaugural Address, 1805 Follow The Patriot Post :                You have received this email because you are subscribed to Founder's Quote Daily, a service of The Patriot Post . To subscribe to Founder's Quote Daily and The Patriot Post , link to http://patriotpost.us/subscribe/ . To manage your subscription or to unsubscribe, link to http://patriotpost.us/manage/ and log in with your email address.  

Read this on the Web at http://patriotpost.us/edition/2011/06/10/digest/ Digest · June 10, 2011 The Foundation "It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other." --Thomas Jefferson Government & Politics 'Bumps on the Road to Recovery' A presidential limo hits a "bump" in the road Americans are fed up with the economy as we head into Recovery Summer 2.0. Unemployment has edged back up to 9.1 percent, and consumer confidence is shaky at best. To most, it seems as if we have been running on a treadmill since the fall of 2008. That's when economic calamity first provided leftists the opportu...