As I study the “change” President Obama is pushing for our nation, as I fear for our future, I checked out the difference between Barack Obama and Thomas Jefferson. Here’s my comparison. I tried to use quotes to make my point. Here I go:

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men 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

I think when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody.
Barack Obama

Thomas Jefferson was against wealth redistribution, Obama is for it. That’s a big fundamental difference between the two guys.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.
Barack Obama

Thomas Jefferson understood the danger of the nanny state. Obama embraces it. Another big difference.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
Thomas Jefferson

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
Thomas Jefferson

People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.
Barack Obama

Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most destructive trends of the global economy. Barack Obama.

Thomas Jefferson was for American independence, Obama favors, how did he put it, “a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy.” He seeks a world unity rather than national independence. Just check out “Cap and Trade” and his speeches on financial reform if you don’t believe me. Another big difference between these two guys.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson

Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Thomas Jefferson

It’s not the debt that’s most troubling. The bulk of the debt is a direct result of the President’s tax cuts, 47.4% of which went to the top 5% income bracket. Barack Obama.

Thomas Jefferson feared big government and debt, Obama likes it. He’s spending us into bankruptcy and he may already have done so. Another big difference.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Thomas Jefferson

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson

O.K. This one doesn’t need an Obama quote. He doesn’t govern the least, he governs the most, inserting government into the auto industry, financial industry, energy industry, health care industry, and more, beyond any level ever experienced. Apparently he doesn’t agree with Thomas Jefferson on the role of government. That’s worrisome.

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson

“Even if I want to take them away, I don’t have the votes in Congress.’’ Barack Obama.

“…the passage of legal protection for the gun industry would mark an enormous setback for gun control advocates and for leaders of cities such as Chicago, who have filed suit against gun dealers and manufacturers.” Barack Obama.

Evidently, Obama doesn’t agree with Thomas Jefferson on this one either.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson

This sort of sums up our Obama Future. Power has been consolidated, corruption in Washington is rampant despite the promise of “change.”

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson

O.K. Obama has the National Endowment of the Arts using federal tax dollars to fund art supporting his agenda. ACORN uses federal funds to promote his policies. He’s violating Thomas Jefferson’s warnings. Of course he is.

It is clear that Thomas Jefferson, one of our “so-called” (Obama’s words) founding fathers, had a drastically different view on our nation than Barack Obama. The difference is so drastic that there is little if any middle ground. So pick sides folks. I pick Thomas Jefferson. Of course I do.

That’s my Reetzality for the Day.

Thanks for the read.

Brett Reetz