Watch The Men Who Built America on the history channel that may give you some insight into why we need some government control.The extreme right has an agenda to eliminate the cost of living adjustment,unions,medicare & social security.They have voted 40 times to repeal Obama care but it's here for 3 more years so what a waste of time.It seems to me if they spent time on fixing what is wrong with the ACA instead of wasting time trying to get rid of it it would be a plus for everyone.
Michelle, Nancy Pelosi is a rich white woman. How did the democrats treat Sara Palin I don't recall any republican talk about any democrat woman like that. how many millions did Obama give of tax payer money to these green jobs for which all went bankrupt just after.
There are two wings of the welfare state; corporate welfare and social welfare. My opposition to conservatives is that they often attack social welfare (by which I mean the whole range of social spending - social security, public schooling, food stamps, etc.) but often openly support corporate welfare. Corporate welfare is sometimes specific, as when the government directly bails out corporations, and when they pour public funds into research and development (particularly for defense-related private industries, private prisons, Blackwater, etc.), but allow the corporate ownership and shareholders reap all the profit. Sometimes, its more ambiguous. For example, tax money builds highways, but large corporations use highways to transport their goods far more than the average private citizen. So who benefits most from tax-subsidized infrastructure?
It seems to me grossly unfair to support corporate welfare while opposing social welfare -- particularly when social welfare is often meant to offset some of the deleterious effects of corporate welfare. For example, small private businesses may have their land seized under Eminent Domain and turned over to a large transnational corporation, like Walmart, in the name of "job creation," "encouraging business growth," or some such. But the right wants to crack down against unemployment benefits, public assistance, and the like. So they're perfectly willing to support programs that lead to larger unemployment, but they don't want to help the unemployed.
I acknowledge that some right-wing libertarians are aware of these issues. What bothers me is their lack of a tactical sensibility regarding a political program to reduce these kinds of interventions in the economy. So, for example, the right-libertarian may be opposed to taxation. However, they may support a specific proposal to lower taxes on the top 1% of business owners. Supporting a tax break for the richest people while poor and middle class workers get no concomitant tax break is not a net increase in liberty. It is a further advantage for the top 1%. Likewise, screaming about ending food stamps without putting equal emphasis on ending corporate welfare is hypocrisy, and it is a call to widen disparities between the rich and the poor.
In short, I'm accusing the average Joe/ Jane on the right of being suckered by big corporate interests. They've been drawn into opposing food stamps, public assistance (what we sometimes call "welfare checks"), social security, and so on. Meanwhile, they are often blind to corporate welfare, or openly support it. Any rational, humane move to roll back government intervention in the economy should start with cutting back privileges for those who are already among the most privileged ("corporate welfare") and worry about rolling back social welfare when the most egregious disparities have been addressed first.
That is at the very least. In reality, it is Republican support for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that has cost this country the most resources. The drawbacks of the ACA, and I agree there are many (I would prefer single-payer or universal health care), are minute compared to the costs of Iraq and Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Republicans have entrenched and enriched corporate welfare while dismantling what little social welfare the country has left. Republicans have opposed drug legalization. Republicans have supported violations of church/ state separation (sadly, Obama has also embraced "faith-based initiatives"). Republicans have opposed gay marriage. Nothing about the Republicans, in actual practice, has been in support of individual freedom. The Libertarian Party hasn't been remarkably better. It wants to leave it up to the various states to decide just how much of people's civil liberties they want to violate. Calling them "libertarians" cannot be regarded very seriously, in my opinion.
Interesting narrative but I don't see a question.
Too bad that your blog didn't include a question.
Every one of your "views" is based on false information.
Read a damn newspaper.
First, I want to say I have picked Republican as my party atm, based on how I see them handling affairs in America. I always get into heated debates with liberals and I want to ask what you think about. Mostly because I get called traitor and then personal attacks start shortly after. First I would like to express my views. I feel that the Government should have a less active hand in how people live their lives, that the people should have more freedom to live their lives with minimal assistance from the government. If they need help is one thing, but to constantly give them it, hinders them. I also feel that Congress has gotten to powerful and needs to be taken apart and fixed. Basically The People amend the laws and keep what is good for the whole and demolish what is bad for the rest. But my main bone of contention that always gets me in these fierce debates is Obamacare AKA Affordable Care Act. My reasoning is this...First: The Government is trying to force their will upon the people and the population centers are assisting them. (Sign of a dictatorship) Second: Our freedoms are slowly being stripped (Sign of a dictatorship) and Third: With these other two in place makes it almost impossible to get a job anymore. Government tries to control everything and nothing gets done. But the reason I am asking this, is I was in History Class today at our local college and had to learn about libertarianism...which states "Individual Freedom" "Political Freedom." So why do I always get attacked when bringing this up with people claiming to be Liberals? I have stated my views and now welcome yours, as long as they are civil as mine have been. Because nowhere have I attacked Liberals in this and I expect the same courtesy in return.
