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So is fire, water, and alcohol, but in limited quantities. In excess all four can and will destroy your quality of life or kill you.
Read the Constitution of the United States. Read the Founding Fathers. You might learn something and that would be good.
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
- Thomas Paine
My apologizes. I would like to re-direct my post to Douglas J. Amy (a prof. big surprise there. NOT)
FAIL!
Everything she points out that the government “saved” (housing market, roads and bridges, etc.) needed to be saved because of government intervention (or government’s lack of fiscal discipline) in the first place.
Hillarious. Should have, could have, would have guessed it is done by a college professor. Says it all right there.
OK, I actually read through some of the articles, and looked up some of his op-ed pieces from the last few years. All I can say is wow. Just wow.
He is, quite simply, a big-government collectivist. Government is good. More government can actually mean more freedom. That sad thing is that he actually believes it...
Well knock me over with a feather. The sites owner is a college professor! And he has a CONTACT option. I’ll read some of his Marxist drivel and send him an appropriate email. Of course I’m certain facts won’t matter much to him as they don’t to any other dedicated leftist. Damn things are too inconvenient to their arguments, after all!
Their message is NOT that “free markets are good and government is bad.”. Their message is that where government grows, liberty shrinks. So FREEDOM is good; government is bad.
Government is the ally of liberty only insofar as it is its author.
It is neither.
Of course this clown advocates government. Without it, he’d be scrounging in the dirt, spewing left-wing diatribes to passers-by as he tries to spit-shine windshields for a dollar.
"Conservatives are correct to say that many laws and regulations are inherently coercive – they prevent people and organizations from doing what they want to do. But anti-government conservatives seem to think this coercion is a bad thing. It is not."
Another "enlightened" liberal who, deep down, really just wants to be the guy holding the whip.
I wonder where he stands on having the government coerce people into joining the military, for the "public good" of boosting the nation's defense? Or coercively preventing consenting adults from engaging in certain sex acts? I suspect his pro-government tune would change pretty quickly when *that* kind of democratic coercion is involved.
The sage P.J. O'Rourke put it perfectly,
"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."
Well if it says so on the Internet it must be true.
OK so you owe me a laptop — my dinner is all over the screen & in between the keys. I got upset.