Obama Care

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Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

We need the people of the US to remember that our history was made not by Government providing for our needs, but by individuals and local citizens working through hardship and toiling to bring the prosperity we enjoy. Government should serve to safeguard the basic principles we all hold dear, freedom of the individual, justice that is blind when it comes to race, creed, wealth.

What a f'ing joke,

Crawford was commissioned to design the Statue of Freedom in 1854 and executed the plaster model for the statue in his studio in Rome. The statue was originally topped by a liberty cap but Senator and Secretary of War Jefferson Davis (who would later become the President of the Confederacy) was in charge of the construction and refused to allow the statue to wear the hat. He told Crawford to either remove it or he would give the commission to someone else. (Davis knew that in ancient Rome only freed slaves wore these hats and he didn't want to have a freed slave on top of the Capitol Dome.) So the American eagle helmet replaced the hat when the sculpture was made.

While Freedom was being cast at Mills' foundry the foreman in charge of the casting went on strike. Instead of paying him the higher wages he demanded Mills turned the project over to Philip Reid, one of the slaves working at the facility.