Thomas Paine slams Mitt Romney!

[PoliticalTiger]

"Personal property is the effect of society; and it is as impossible for an individual to acquire personal property without the aid of society, as it is for him to make land originally.

Separate an individual from society, and give him an island or a continent to possess, and he cannot acquire personal property. He cannot be rich. So inseparably are the means connected with the end, in all cases, that where the former do not exist the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation, therefore, of personal property, beyond what a man's own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came."

- Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice - Part Three

http://www.ssa.gov/history/paine4.html

[jaxx]

That's a great find.

[Treestar]

I second that it is a great find! Going to communicate it to some righties. They will flip out and call Paine a commie.

[PoliticalTiger]

Thanks guys. I saw that picture with the quote on FB and I waned to make sure it was accurate before I posted it so I looked it up and found the whole quote. Really, it's only common sense, which is what Thomas Paine was all about!

[Treestar]

Righties still silent.