Thom Hartmann: Thomas Jefferson's 3 Greatest Fears

Who do you trust more to guide us today - Republicans who owe their allegiance and political survival to billionaires and corporations - or the author of our Declaration of Independence - Thomas Jefferson - who also was the founder and father of the Democratic Party?

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[LibertaerUeberAlles]

Great points! Thomas Jefferson is considered by some to be a Left Libertarian, due to some of his views on land utilization.

One thing is for sure, he would have wanted us to finally End the Federal Reserve!! No more money monopoly!!

[silveristhenew]

the real issues aren't Dems or Repubs - Its BOTH. Both are problematic in the way they are bought and paid for. Jefferson would have seen this.

[Salvysahagun]

“I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution…. Taking from the federal government the power of borrowing.”

[Jefferson, Thomas, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, (New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1896), p. 310.]

Go home Hartman

[Salvysahagun]

@ChefEarthenware Omg I really want Ron Paul to debate him on Jefferson

[ChefEarthenware]

This guy has no understanding of Jefferson. I'm surprised to see this kind of thing on RT.

Opinion is one thing - but this guy is trying to twist history to suit his own prejudices.

[gulbirk]

@LibertaerUeberAlles Did you bother to read some of the next lines he wrote?

What do you want to DO with the FED? Socialise it? Replace it? Yes, ending it is literally to just replace it.

[iyequertu54]

this guy knows his U.S. history

[troykool14]

@DonSSanders . Corruption of government by (some) big corporations is only part of the problem. Corruption of government by ANY special interest that prevents the government from protecting individual rights is the problem. This means the government is too big. The government should not be involved in redistribution of wealth (Welfare State) or cartelization of banks (Federal Reserve) or entangling alliances (Warfare State) or picking winners and losers in the market (Crony Capitalism).

[troykool14]

Thomas Jefferson more of a libertarian view. He stated, "I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." I think Jefferson would be appalled at today's parasites: 1) The Welfare State 2) The Military-Industrial complex 3) Corporate Cronyism 4) The corruption of the Federal Reserve Bank 5) The expanding Police State, among others. Mr. Hartmann complains only of #s 2 and 3 above.He supports the others

[troykool14]

Jefferson also stated, "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."

Mr. Hartmann twists the views of Jefferson in an attempt to justify Hartmann's false conclusions. The reality is that the establishment of both major parties are corrupt and contribute to our ever expanding fascist state.

[troykool14]

Jefferson also said, "To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." The problem today is corporate fascism, not "rich" individuals who earned their wealth through honest industry.

[troykool14]

Jefferson himself said, "The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits. No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him."

Mr. Hartmann has twisted the libertarian views of Jefferson to serve his FALSE conclusion that somehow the Democratic party is where the answers are. The truth is that neither party would be acceptable today