For under $7 you can get a paperback of both at that Amazon place (Glenn Beck has his modern version and Thomas Paine's as an appendium - sp? in the same book).

Even if you don't agree with the contents, give it a read. Shoot I've spent more than $7 on a smoke that really sucked but I still gave it a try with an open mind.

That's a MUST read for anyone that want to study our Founding Fathers.

Paine was considered a radical back then. He also was trying for a flat tax.

wheel,

"Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." - Benjamin Franklin

wheel,

Now why would one want to study the thoughts and writings of our founding fathers?

They only helped a mish mash of determined common folks to take on the world's superpower and WIN.

The end result was to create a new country. One which was and still is (some might debate it though) the current world superpower, most industrious, model of freedom, kick the ****e out of everyone else who challenged it.

(side note, I'll toss a bone to HockeyDad. The French were critical in helping us during the Revolutionary War.)

Noooooo.... we wouldn't folks to learn from history and our greats that got us to where we are. Let's move forward and tear down all that stuff. Let's try to implement things that have been proven to fail.

We have no one else to blame but ourselves. I'm ashamed for what we've done for our kids' future. I only hope that we can steer away from the rocks before it's too late.

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Beck's version is pretty good, the main point being the parties (both D and R) have forgotten why they're in office in the first place. A little rhetoric, nothing earth-shattering that hasn't been said before...so far anyway.

Good stuff, however.

Supposedly, this guy’s video on youtube has been so popular that Obama called him personally. He said that he was very disturbed with the video and invited him to the White House.

Obama also said he wanted the White House to handle the Press and not to talk about the video or the White House visit.

Sadly, he dropped it and it broke.