Reader says Jefferson was right on

The actions of Obama's federal government are diametrically opposed to those of America Framers, who adopted the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.

Thomas Jefferson, who penned the original draft of the Declaration of Independence, wrote roughly 40 years later, in 1816, to Samuel Kercheval: We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers.

Does that not describe Obama fundamental transformation of America? Happy birthday, America.

Are we still are celebrating and fighting for your founding principles and freedoms?

Dale Hellewell

Royal City