Forum Post: Best Of

I vote for Anonymous1776 as the best poster on this board.  His/Her comments are well thought out and without emotion; aka: logical.  I see the major differences here resulting from what this country was founded on (limited government, liberty, personal responsibility, equal opportunity for all) and those disgruntled by what they perceive the world "should" be (it doesn't work that way in the real world, the deck is stacked against me, the man is holding me down, I want something for nothing, reparations, etc.).  If we want to talk about what is best for the greater good, how about everyone learning about the founding of this country and the blessings bestowed upon it?  The Founding Fathers didn't risk their lives to guarantee everyone healthcare, a college education, a job, or anything other than leaving it up to the individual to determine their own path through life.  

Remember this:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

Anyone know the originating document?

Say what you want about the responsibility to throw off such Government.  I agree with you.  However, you are apparently not in the majority.  Just because you want it doesn't make it so.  Grow up!