Posted on 03/24/2005 6:05:23 PM PST by death2tyrants
trying to pack the court didn't help either
and now we know why (as if they did not then)
this process has gone so far that any attempt to put conservative and constructionist jurists on the bench is fought by progressives (and by the way, this term is used in it historical sense as "liberal", i understand the irony that it is now conservatives who are progressive)
...fought with the kind of intensity they should project toward our real enemies (fill in the blank....Islamofascists, Communists, French, whatever)
It is also not governments job to take our money by force and squander all our funds as they do. They are spending our country into bankruptcy because they have ignored our Constitution and the checks and balances that were set in place by our Founding Fathers.
Jimmy "Malaise" Carter
One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.
Fair enough. I'm aware of the shortcomings of a program such as this. No solution is every 100% perfect.
I'll accept your request to do my research if you'll do your research on the state of our society *before* social security. Research on how long those food lines were. How many people lived in poor houses. How many people died from starvation in the streets.
Maybe this is the society you want to go back to. I don't.
> Christ did not support forcing people to engage in programs. Good works must be done of our own freewill surrendering our freewill to God's will.
And in an ideal world, I would agree with you. But in this day of selfish aggrandizement, where more and more people want to pile up piles of money for themselves and keep it to themselves that I don't have a lot of faith that there are enough people out there as good as you to give enough of their hard-earned money away to help people in need.
After all, it's the very idea that people are giving their money away that is the prime motivation behind killing a program that has done so much to give older people a stab at maintaining a life in which they can support themselves in their twilight years. That sentiment has been expressed several times in this very thread.
That was because Hoover was strangling the economy. The Smoot-Hawley tarriff act kicked off an international trade war, making everything that Americans wanted to buy more expensive. Making things cost more is equivelent to making people poorer. Agriculture was a leading export at the time and farmers were particularly hard hit so in order to protect farmers Hoover began farm subsidies. The government bought surpluss agricultural products to maintain a minimum price to replace the wealth farmers lost from the lack of international trade. This made food more expensive in America so non-farmers were starving. Meanwhile the US government had no use for millions of dollars worth of food so they destroyed it, while people were starving.
Liberals like you have fought and lost this battle hundreds of time throughout history. Government regulations do not grow the economy, they do not put food on poor people's tables. The government is not the solution, it is part of the problem. We need to create jobs and wealth. That means keep as much money as possible in the private sector.
Social Security and any other major social program where money is forced from people will fail because socialism and communism don't work. When you give bureaucrats money they will simply waste it because they don't care.
We need to be responsible for ourselves and save for our own retirement.
I'm glad to be here. Everyone is so nice!
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