Obama's Problem With the Constitution

"The Constitution allows for many things, but what it does not allow is the most revealing. The so-called Founders did not allow for economic freedom. While political freedom is supposedly a cornerstone of the document, the distribution of wealth is not even mentioned. While many believed that the new Constitution gave them liberty, it instead fitted them with the shackles of hypocrisy."
~Barack Obama in his thesis, "Aristocracy Reborn", at Columbia University.

As you can imagine, I have several problems with this statement.

First... "The so called Founders"?!

Second... How can you have economic freedom when someone is taking away your wealth in order to give it to non-achievers?

Hey President Obama, perhaps the "so called Founders" didn't mention redistribution of wealth because they didn't believe in it!

Here is Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Joseph Milligan, April 6th, 1816: "To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association -- the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."

Thomas Jefferson in his first inaugural address, March 4th, 1801: "A wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government."

Thomas Jefferson: "Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated."

John Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions of Governments of the United States of America, 1787: "The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence."

If Adams is right, we are closer to anarchy and tyranny than ever before. Could it be that it is all by design?


Note: After further research, I discovered that the original source for this quote was a satire peace in a blog. Barack Obama did not write this.