The most to lose, did the least to prevent it happening.

In a speech, called A Time for Choosing, given by Ronald Reagan in 1965, he said that history will record that the people who had the most to lose did the least to prevent it happening. He further quoted from recent democratic speeches on the Great Society, "the Profit motive has become outmoded and must be replaced by the incentives of the welfare state or traditional system of individual freedom is incapable of solving the complex problems of the twentieth century." Mechanisms of the progressive agenda at the that time so closely paralleled the socialist and communist agendas that the people would not have been shocked to hear it called communism instead of progressivism or the Great Society. Reagan continued on to say that "Senator Fullbright has said at Stanford University that the 'Constitution is outmoded.' He refered to the president as our moral teacher and our leader. He says he is hobbled in task by the restriction imposed on him by this antiquated document. He must be 'freed' so that he can do for us, what he knows is best." All governmental authority comes from the Constitution of these United States and that a senator could demand that it be put aside so that he could do as he wished is an affront, much like what is happening in America today. President Reagan could have been talking about the politicians in power today. Ronald Reagan went on to state, "Sen. Clark of Pennsylvania defines Liberalism as meeting the material needs of the mass through the full power of the centralized government." The concept of redistribution of wealth is not a new concept in America. Ronald Reagan was speaking out against this concept and the manner in which the government was expanding. "But beyond that, the full power of the centralized government, this was the thing the founding father sought to minimize. They knew that governments don't control things. The government can't control the economy without controling people." I guess that Ronald Reagan could be described as the Face of the Tea Party movement that is in America today. His thought and beliefs proved themselves when he was in power, national debt reduced, federal goverment reduced and the a freer and happier nation. But where did we go wrong? Why didn't we save our country from the progessive agenda's that are controlling our lad today? I'll tell you why. Americans are a remarkable short-sighted people. we forget the lessons of our past and do not look to the future following the current political philosophies. We have had truly great men point the direction that we are heading out time and again, but we do not learn from them. We are indeed a people who had the most to lose and did the least to prevent it.