Comments on: Then and Now (A Political Rant)

By: andy

andy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:54:51 +0000

you have nailed them. perfectly. they set themselves up as the free-er of people but they actually enslave their followers to forever “need” them but never actualy ever raise them out of poverty, but they do get their votes. it makes me so sad for the poor who buy all those empty promises. the sad part is, i think liberals ARE sincere, they are just so misled themselves. they cant see what a complete failure they already are, so they just keep doing what isn’t working harder.

By: kidologist

kidologist — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:42:41 +0000

Fair enough, generalizations are dangerous – but for every family the government has helped, I think there are many more they hurt by advocating themselves as the solution, a solution that can only work in isolated occurances. those who don’t get single handedly picked out are often worse off waiting for the government to come in and save the day when they could pursue the American Dream without the government. To me, the American Dream isn’t something the Government gives you it is something the government ALLOWS by getting OUT OF THE WAY. As a small business “owner” (as a non-profit, I don’t actually own it) I can tell you, I could do so much better and pay my employees so much more if it weren’t for the cumbersom regulation and fees that most people aren’t aware of if they aren’t in a position of being a business “owner” (owner in quotes again because I don’t “own” kidology, but i function as an owner) and it is worse for for-profit companies.

Liberals TEND to make business the enemy and government the answer, when it is actually QUITE the other way around. Businessses employ and create jobs and better peoples lives, the government can only take and dictate, and that rarely has broad sweeping positive results, it can ONLY help in single hand-picked situations, a free economy and unleashed business can provide that for everyone and allow the poorest MORE opportunity than government ever can. Our government makes it more advantagious to stay poor and discourages the poor from getting un-poor by creating dependency on government programs. They get (some would say buy) votes this way, but they don’t truly help the poor this way.

But I’ll not go on too long, this is supposed to be just a comment, not part two!

and I love you too!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:45:09 +0000

I only defend my wife, and won’t defend your friendly neighborhood Democrats; however…. be careful with wide sweeping generalizations like,

“even though no government program has ever solved ONE human social issue, and in fact, have only made things worse in the effort to help.”

Careful there friend. I could take you to visit many a family that the government has single handedly picked up out of poverty and given them all the tools to meet their American Dream. I agree with the idea of it not being the cure-all, as only Jesus can truly do that; but don’t discount all that our government has done positive for our poorest of citizens.

And I love you!