Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Do you think these times are better? That you have more freedom?
Or do you like having the gov telling you how to live your life?
In the 1950s, the force of government was used to drag artists in front of a government panel to defend themselves against accusations of communism. Hundreds were unable to find work afterwards. Do you see anything akin to that happening today?
In the 1950s, the force of government was used to drag artists in front of a government panel to defend themselves against accusations of communism. Hundreds were unable to find work afterwards. Do you see anything akin to that happening today?
Limited government has not been the case since Abraham Lincoln started the Civil War.
I have to disagree, I think that in regards to women government has become much more limited since then. The various state governments no longer place broad bans on women owning property, or on suffrage.
The question must be asked, what do you mean by "limited government"?
Some people want less taxes, less government organizations, yet on the other hand they want to enforce drug, sex, and religious morality on everyone also.
Some people don't want to enforce morality with government mandates and by outlawing things, yet they want to have higher taxes to pay for social programs that most Americans support.
What happened to "small government" was that both sides want to grow the government to meet their specific desires, but they want smaller government in opposite sides of the equation.
Actually a limited federal government is spelled out quite well in the confines of Articles 1-3 of the US Constitution. Everything else remains with the states and the people. It is long past time the over reach of the federal government STOP!
Actually a limited federal government is spelled out quite well in the confines of Articles 1-3 of the US Constitution. Everything else remains with the states and the people. It is long past time the over reach of the federal government STOP!
Oh please, you and I both know that both parties have stomped all over a strict constructionist view of the constitution. Hell even Jefferson did it, and he was one of the most strident supporters of the constructionist view.
Do you think these times are better? That you have more freedom?
Or do you like having the gov telling you how to live your life?
Could you perhaps offer up an example or two? It's rather hard to debate without having an idea of what concrete government initiatives you're thinking of.
I find it difficult to fathom the kind of thinking that claims that politicians will somehow work to limit their own power and control over the lives of others. The only real difference between so-called conservatives and so-called progressives is that the former make hypocritical noises about defending individual freedom while limiting that defense to the freedom of the filthy rich, and the latter bleat about how they are only taking over our lives because we are incapable of caring for ourselves.
There is something to recommend the view that governments are most like cancers, in that they replicate otherwise healthy cellular collocations, slowly and inexorably multipling their numbers and vigor, monopolizing available energy and resources, until they become, instead of adjuncts to the organism, its focus, its master and its executioner.
That apologist exist, and in such numbers, for this malignant metastasis, is testament to its ability to spread beyond the body politic to the mind of culture itself.
Either politics is evolution's way to bring to a close the brief terrestial dominance of homo sapiens, or the supreme divinity's conculsive demonstration that the Tree of Life and its abjurations against the knowledge of good and evil, is the final fate of His failed model.
Last edited by Yeledaf; 02-13-2011 at 06:14 PM..
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
