I was looking at the franklin county patriot’s website the other day and saw a post that was interesting to me. It told of how one of their members went to a school board meeting about having fees waived when using one of the school’s buildings because they are a not-for-profit organization. It also told of some members of the show me progress group showing up to rebut this. It is disconcerting to me how so many people are stuck in the left-right paradigm. It shows me how well our politicians and other agencies are doing their jobs at keeping people fighting amongst themselves and not paying attention to what they have planned for us. As long as you go to a meeting to keep someone from getting a fee waived because you don’t like their group you are accomplishing nothing. You want health reform? Really? Can you name me one thing that the government controls that they don’t screw up? I bet you can’t name any. But so many have been brain-washed by politicians and the main-stream media that they can’t think for themselves. People can’t seem to recognize that the federal government was not put in place to take care of you. The states were to have their own sovereignty. But now the government has you thinking you don’t know what’s best for you. They have you thinking they do. That is complete and utter nonsense. Until people learn to think for themselves for once instead of others doing it for them we will all pay the price. I do not want others screwing me because they buy what the politicians are selling them. You want to screw yourselves with big government? Move somewhere else. Leave me and my family out of your move to wards totalitarian government. I will not listen to you cry when it all goes down hill and your yelling “why?”. Please think about the path your choosing for yourselves and others when you spout this ignorance. Do some real research and think for yourself for once. Please!!!
Stuck in the paradigm of the left and right
24 Thursday Sep 2009
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…that government invented the paragraph?
A better exercise might be to look at government run institutions that have done a good job for a long time and see just how the years of small government, conservative ascendency has weakened them — deregulation of food and product safety inspection to name just one out of hundreds of examples. You folks ought to shut up about small government after what you have done.
I continue to be astounded by the historical ignorance of many on the right — selectively quoting the particular founding father that best represents a conservative point of view about constitutional interpretaion and ignoring others. On the topic of general welfare legislation, one has Madison and, briefly, Jefferson, against Hamilton, Franklin and Washington (and Jefferson recanted when he became president). The fact is that the relative roles of the state and federal government was as contentious during the founding and first decades of the republic as was at the time of the civil war and for much the same reason — slavery. That question has been settled through decades of court opinions (starting in the nineteenth centuries) although it seems that some on the real fringe still use state rights as code for some of their uglier preoccupations.
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You want to the U.S. reduced to third world status in terms of the health and welfare of its citizens — you move somewhere else. I can suggest several third world countries where you no-government types would be right at home (although if you don’t have a big independent income, you might not be as happy with things as you think you will).
Substtute Fox News for politicians, in that statement and you get no argument from me.
everything you have said above comes from the far right side of the paradigm — you know, the same fools who have run our country into the ground.