Which Republican do you trust most to fix the economy?

BuzzDash ^ | 01/24/08 | me

[rocksblues]

Check out this link for a running poll.

[ToryNotion]

I think this is a case were it is a zero-sum game. There’s a great quote about Kaiser Whilhelm that expresses this idea. Essentially, to achieve ‘nation greatness’ or ‘world leadership’ we have to make comprimises domestically so that the sphere for individual greatness decreases. Surely the increase in the size of the nanny state and reduction in personal responsibility is evidence of this.

[lentulusgracchus]

Tell that to the Swiss.

The Swiss have hardly anything worth fighting for. They stay up in their valleys and earn a living.

We have half a continent, and some of it is already spectacularly developed.

The Chinese Politburo would kill 300,000,000 Americans, to get our wide-open spaces for their pullulating hordes.

[TexasMatty]

Surely the increase in the size of the nanny state and reduction in personal responsibility is evidence of this.

No arguement from me there. However, I would disagree with individual greatness decreasing with National greatness rising. The two are symbiotic.

[SE Mom]

..which explains is vote against the tax cuts? :)

[lentulusgracchus]

Essentially, to achieve ‘nation greatness’ or ‘world leadership’ we have to make comprimises domestically so that the sphere for individual greatness decreases. Surely the increase in the size of the nanny state and reduction in personal responsibility is evidence of this.

So now you know what tyrants and their historiographical court sycophants think.

The Framers thought differently.

[TexasMatty]

"is evidence of this"

Should of cut that part out of my agreement. The part I agree with is the size of the nanny state and decrease in personal responsibility that is evidence of Libs and Rinos being in the gubament.

[ToryNotion]

I hope for my children’s sake you are right. We’ll see.

[KeyLargo]

RONALD REAGAN, wherever he is now could still do a better job than any of the Rinos.

[ToryNotion]

I’m with the Founders on this one. I hope my words did not convey that want a greater sphere for personal greatness. The quote I was after might have been about Frederick the Great. ‘He made the nation of Germany great, but the German people small’. Maybe someone has the exact wording and source.

[ToryNotion]

my idiot fingers and not co-operating w/ my brain tonight. A larger sphere is a good thing...

[nickcarraway]

They are all a disaster fiscally.

[ToryNotion]

I heard about a new documentary called ‘I.O.U.S.A’ that will be aired at the Sundance Festival. It’s lays out the case for our poor state fiscally and serious challenges ahead.

[ToryNotion]

The acceptance of torture as a tool in the WOT is an example. I never in my life thought my country would do that. Other countries sure, but never the United States of America. It’s an incremental moral death and a little piece of all of share in it.

[mamelukesabre]

Newt for department of muslim affairs and terrorist annhilation.

[mamelukesabre]

Sorry, that won’t work for us. America is too rich in resources. Someone will come and take it all from us. Switzerland is nothing but banks and a few worthless mountains. And if they are invaded, the banks will leave. That leaves a few worthless mountains. But no one will invade switzerland not because of their civil defense policy...they don’t invade because all the bad guys have hoarded their ill gotten gains in swiss banks.

[TexasMatty]

Torture according to whom? If you believe our troops are torturing POWs you are to far gone for anything that I may say to take root. I do have a suggestion though, take the copies of the New York times, the New Republic, and Vanity Fair out of your PBS totebag and through them in the trash. In fact, leave them in and just throw the whole totebag away.

[TexasMatty]

through=throw. Duh, moron,lol!

[lentulusgracchus]

The quote I was after might have been about Frederick the Great. ‘He made the nation of Germany great, but the German people small’.

Yes, that sounds like an interesting quote. Haven't heard that one before, I don't think.

That's what tyrants do, though -- they hog all the good opportunties to do things, and then waste them.

They slow humanity down.

[Onelifetogive]

Which Republican do you trust most to fix the economy?

I don't even think Reagan "fixed the economy". He just restrained the government a bit from screwing it up.

[ToryNotion]

I would disagree with individual greatness decreasing with National greatness rising. The two are symbiotic. And so then maybe the inverse is true? That personal greatness declines as national greatness declines? I don't agree that if the US scaled back our role as Global Leader that we'd be a less great nation. I think the opposite would be true. I think if you look at our history we were a greater Nation when we meddled less in the other nations affairs. This idea that we would personally be diminished if the US had a more humble foreign policy may be at the root of most Freepers fear and loathing of Ron Paul or any politician who does but support our quarterbacking the world. The notion of an intrinsic relationship between National and personal greatness reminds me a bit of 1930's Fascism. In Fascism, the individual had no existence outside the State. Of the State, for the State. We of course have a tradition of individual Liberty and worth that does not derive from the State but from the creator.