Ouch! This one’s going to leave a mark…
Lest you think that Ron Paul is the only Republican Presidential candidate with newsletter problems, Brody Mullins and Janet Adamy of the Wall Street Journal have unearthed one by Newt Gingrich, also flagged by Andrew Kaczynski. The since-redacted April 2006 newsletter from Newt Gingrich’s Center for Health Transformation contains a section called “Newt Notes,” in which Gingrich writes that “the most exciting development of the past few weeks is what has been happening up in Massachusetts. The health bill that Governor Romney signed into law this month has tremendous potential to effect major change in the American health system.”
Gingrich writes that he and his colleagues “agree entirely with Governor Romney and Massachusetts legislators that our goal should be 100% insurance coverage for all Americans.” He strongly endorses the individual mandate: “The individual mandate requires those who earn enough to afford insurance to purchase coverage, and subsidies will be made available to those individuals who cannot afford insurance on their own. We agree strongly with this principle.”
So, to use John Kerry’s old line: He was for it before he was against it. And Newt is insisting that Mitt is the dishonest one. Uh, huh.
I find it sad that Americans of all political beliefs are allowing America to be turned into a Corporation. Both sides have nothing to do with governing a republic.
It is OK to lie, cheat, and steal as long as you are in one of the parties.
America is a Republic not a retail store for overseas goods made by those companies who ruched to China because they got energy subsidies.
In an 1802 letter to Secretary of State Albert Gallatin, Jefferson said,
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
Thomas Jefferson also said this in 1816,
“I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”