With the passing of Gerald Ford, I and many others, it appears, have had a sobering chance to reconsider not just the man but what he stood for. Basically, Ford was an Eisenhower and Rockefellar type of Republican: Balance the budget, keep spending and taxes in line, and let the people live their lives. How different is that from the present-day Democrats who want to tell us how to think and live–socialize us in the political sense–and the new Republicans who want to have us believe as they do, in fundamental Christianity. And never the twain shall meet, God and Lenin forbid. It would be nice to go back to Ford’s type of governing philosophy and let the cultural wars fade into history.
At any rate, here is one of my favorite quotations from President Ford:
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
To that, a hearty “amen” and “yes, comrade” from the modern ruling classes, or rather from those oppressed by these elites.
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