Posted on 01/14/2007 4:13:46 AM PST by cinives
Anyone who avoids seeing that "The Great Society" accomplished more destruction of the "family" in the United States than did anything else in our history is being deliberately blind and stupid.
There is such bliss and inner peace in liberalism that it's a wonder we don't all succumb. When you are liberal you never ever need to look at the consequences of your actions.
Well not to split hairs but, there isn't much difference between the two, if any.
But I think one difference is that one is a National Socialist, and the other is an International Socialist.
Which is Bush?
And his cabinet?
Yes. Sorry I forgot to add that to the caption.
It just gets worse every day.
An unsupported assertion. If one follows Jesus' teachings and the examples he and his followers set, you'd be a communist. Indeed, this is what the communistic "Liberation Theology" movement is all about.
Anytime I see the phrase "social justice" I read "Communism".
That is not correct, because Jesus never (to the best of my knowledge) advocated using government force for "acts of charity".
The difference is, socialism is backed by governments threatening force to make citizens behave a certain way. Think taxes and the government programs spawned by uwe of tax money, abolition, slavery, public education, etc.
Jesus just "threatened" denial to the kingdom of heaven.
yep, me too
I don't think the Framers "left the door open" with the Commerce Clause. I think FDR and the living document revisionists took it off at the hinges to get around the lock.
Abolition? As in slavery?
IOW you believe that freeing the slaves was a bad idea?
Say it ain't so!
This is all dependent on whose definition of "Christian" you want to use, and whose definition of "socialism" as well.
No, what I was trying to imply was that slavery was an institution protected by government law. If it wasn't for laws protecting slaveholders, slavery would have ended a lot sooner - and without a war.
Not at all. Definitions are definitions.
At least according to the Bible, Jesus never sought laws taking from one by force and giving to others (taxation).
Socialists, on the other hand, advocate nothing but.
Then there are those "Christians", the ones I mentioned and a whole lot more, who do believe in using the power of the state to attempt to rectify social problems whether any individual likes it or not.
That message worked for Reagan in 1980 and 1984, and the "GOP leaders" like that well enough. But an antigovernment message didn't work for Goldwater or for other candidates who've tried it. And even Reagan's victories didn't make the government any smaller.
I suspect people, even if they don't like Bush's budgets, don't trust "anti-government" or "anti-statist" rhetoric because they don't know what people are trying to evoke with such language or how far they are willing to go.
A majority of Americans trusted Reagan. Very few trust the Randians and Rockwellites who often make use of "antigovernment" rhetoric for radical quasi-anarchist purposes. And whatever any of us thinks of Gerson, people are right not to have much use for that extreme fringe.
OK, commie, what should conservatives (or those of any other political persuasion) offer inner-city neighborhoods? The answer is simple - we taxpayers already give too much to deadbeats. We owe the inner city NOTHING.
The time has come that stop the practice of feeding, clothing, and sheltering those that commit violence and fail to contribute in a positive way to society. Until people have to earn their own way, they will not do so.
Sorry if I sound harsh, but 5 decades of welfare has done nothing to solve the problems inherent in many inner-city neighborhoods. Expanding the program will only increase the price of non-achievement.
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