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Poor folks and Democrats are migrating to the city; welfare offices are not that far down the road
Topic Started: Mar 22 2014, 12:19 AM (1,229 Views)
Banandangees
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campingken
Mar 26 2014, 01:46 AM
We just had a major mudslide here in Washington and shockingly the government is here and they are helping. Many cons live in a strange reality if they think that hearing "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" is terrifying.


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We are now a nation of 330,000,000 people that have to live together. How can they all make their own decisions without encroaching on their neighbors rights.

Also when Reagan said that the most fearful words to hear are "I'm from the government and I'm heart to help" I don't recall him saying "except for the military, police, fire, highway dept. fish and game, FAA, etc."

When our nation became a nation, people were taxed (the government has no money by it's own doing). The taxes were to be used to provide national services that benefited the nation. The collective taxes were to be budgeted to return services such as roads, defense, etc.. They were expected to operated within a budget that was restricted by the nation's income (taxes).

The mud slide "relief service" scenario that you use would be funded by the peoples taxes. It should be within national budgeting for emergency purposes. It has nothing in common with "coercion." Your scenario as an example of government service has nothing in common with the government requiring/forcing citizens to buy a product and if not are fined for not doing so..... not in a Republic, a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, which is how this nation started out and how, via this executive type power, usurps more and more power from the people and gives it to itself.... I doubt the founding fathers had in mind to require citizens to buy a product and to fine them if they didn't..... didn't have in mind to take from those who work and give to those who don't for "equalization" purposes, a Robin Hood "take from the rich and give it to the poor," that's socialism/communism. That's not how "republics" are suppose to work.
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Mar 27 2014, 01:30 AM
I recall from growing up in Southeastern Kansas many folks who claimed to be hard core conservative Republicans who owned their small family farms only because of the programs of the FDR and Truman administrtions. Thjer hypocrisy astounded me as I grew up and fully understood their positions. In the 1950s and 1960s those same farmers accepted government funds to terrace their farmlands and/or to drain some fields.. They accepted federal funds to plant multiflora rose fence rows. They readily accepted Federal government price supports. These are just some of the programs those "conservative" farmers acctpted in order to stay in business.
You will be hard pressed to find a farmer
who will turn down taxpayers money
in the form of subsidies and other gifts!
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Or a commercial fisherman.

And Canada subsidizing it's oil industry. What's that all about?
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