 thinkingblue says: This paragraph is encouraging: (Even John McCain, who tells conservatives that he's a Reagan disciple, proposes far-reaching government action on issues such as climate change, high energy prices and the mortgage crisis -- problems that are supposedly better left to the CRUEL GENIUS OF THE FREE MARKET, according to ... Bush ...) I could never understand why people especially LIBERTARIANS believe small or no government is what this nation needs... The GOP sure jumped on that bandwagon. Here is a great site to compliment Mr. Robinson's stance... http://www.governmentisgood.com/articles.php?aid=24 Time and time again, I have repeated the old axiom WE'RE ONLY AS STRONG AS OUR WEAKEST LINK! And the weakest amongst us may need a helping hand now and then...(Katrina). Here's good quote: “The weakest link in the chain is also the strongest. It can break the chain.” - Stanislaw Jerzy Lec quotes (Polish writer, poet and satirist 1906-1966) I could never understand why people especially LIBERTARIANS believe small or no government is what this nation needsHow can anyone believe BIG GOVERNMENT (aka Big Brother) is what we need?! The more control of our lives we hand over to the government, the less freedom and liberty we have! Is the Patriot Act a good thing? Is HR1955 good? If so, you could essentially be imprisoned for your opinion of our government's handling of the war in Iraq, or even of Katrina for that matter. The more expansions to our government, the further we move away from the very principals that this nation was founded upon. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness...it's in YOUR HANDS, not the g... The problem is that the argument is coach in nonsensical language. It is not the size of goverment that matters but whether it works or not. Republicans promised us smaller government - what they meant was less protection for ordinary people and less taxation for rich ones. What they really meant is that they would shrink the things they don't like and expand those things they love. From welfare for the poor to corporate welfare, from police on the streets to 5th generation fighter planes, from rebuilding infrastructure at home to half-ass nation building abroad and so on and so forth. Seems like you hear the same old scary comments from the same old "government so small we can drown it in a bathtub" crowd. Soon as you whisper, anything social, they twist your words to mean you're going to get a Police State with those left-wing ideas. No way, am I promoting "more government = less freedom". I want checks and balances to be strong and healthy (they are kind of sick right now after almost drowning in that moldy tub). I'm talking about social justice, where no one will be forced to work for poverty wages, no one will be denied access to medical care based on those same poverty wages and no one will be barred from a fair justice reckoning because of those depressing, de... We're in for an interesting ride and like Eugene Robinson's opinion: "Regardless of who takes the oath of office in January, the paradigm that reigned for nearly three decades -- the notion that government is useless, if not inherently evil -- is no longer operative." HALLELUIAH! PS: A POP to the ratilfar and masbury opinion! Progressive VS Conservative http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nWIGarTCj4 |
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