Dams, levees, bridges, and other public works failing is something that happens in the THIRD WORLD! We are too wealthy to accept the current bureaucracy..
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29908560/
While it is sad it brings up a good point: Liberals seem to romanicize living in a mud hut and dying of public works failing...there's no reason we should ever have to see something like that happen in America ever again.
I have to clarify, of course: the solution is not to keep dumping money into the programs as Obama is going to, but to reduce the current budget in real and creative ways. I'm essentially proposing that we rethink and reform the way governmental services are delivered (from the municiple/township level on up( and reduce cost and, therefore, taxes.
I apologize for not posting as much, but I havent gotten more than 6 hours of sleep at a time let alone have time to blog :(
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Yes, the dems should all live in mud huts.
Unfortunately your claim seems to be way to simplistic. One many of the birdges and roads and schools still used today were created through public works projects in the post depression FDR era. More importantly, for those classic liberals, which you claim to be, there is something to be said for putting people to work. FDR paid people to build bridges and then paid another group to tear them down because it made people feel productive and since they would be receiving unemployment or welfare for nothing it made sense to pay them money to at least be productive hard working Americans. There is value to work, even if it is a government job.
Yes, my 'claim' is simple: dams shouldnt break, levees shouldnt fail, and bridges shouldnt fall. If you cant understand that, you have no business governing or even voting.
For the latter part, I dont want to get between you and the American people...you just explained why the New Deal did nothing...you left out, though, that FDR charges huge taxes on the productive sector of the economy.
You should become educated, which clearly you are not. Critiques of main stream media do not make you an expert that by this blog you presume you are. You give conservatives a bad name, but let me guess you would attack most of them too. Your critiques of Obama are amusing, they are so jaded by your right wing beliefs it destroys any of the legitimate points you have…
Furthermore, you call for freedoms, but yet here when some disagrees with you, you tell them they have no business voting...I thought that was right given to every American?
I think I'm edjumacated, I dont think I'm an "expert" because that's (1) relative and (2) a title reserved for the old and wise. The Constitution does not contain any right to vote. Anyway, I find the 'right to vote' as something inherent from God and not 'given' by the state.
Movin' on up: it's hilarious how you say my critique is jaded by 'right wing beliefs.' So I'm supposed to be a leftist, have fellowship with Anti-Americans, and somehow critique Obama with a smile and a wink?
How many wings does an eagle have? Two. What discussion do we need in the government? One that allows for all individuals to express their views and be taken seriously (and not dismissed as 'uneducated') for real change.
I have no ideology. I identify with conservatives but have only loyalty to that which works...and this administration is not convincing me that Leftism/Liberalism/Socialism works.
I'd ask you to reply to points, should you comment again, and not just to the writer.
Divine right to vote, is that granted to everyone or just you? or just Christians?
As for your jaded right wing views... You have a right to believe anything you want. I firmly believe in the far reaching arms of the 1st amendment including beliefs I don't agree with. However, you should try to back up your claims with statistics or theory or something that formulates into something close to academia.
I am responding, If I post more I will use get a user name, but I am the anonyomous above. Your point is well received about noting the points, not the writer. However, when you seem to apply absolutes and dogmatic statements regarding the left, it establishes you as the right. Unfortunately politics is a social study and to apply absolutes is ineffective. Unless you are Thomas Hobbes who attempted to examine Politics in absolutes, in The Leviathan, but later was criticized by John Locke (as well as many other modern theorists) for this empirical approach (John Locke could be thought of as the father of libertarian)= empirical approaches do not work.
Furthermore, you are incorrect when you say that Constitution does not guarantee the right to vote. Yes it is not express in the document itself. However, if you recognized how the Constitution works, it is a living document that incorporates and establishes any other law that is enacted in US code for example, 3 USC (Title 3 of the United States Code) discusses who the electors of the president are. Further how do you account other religions with respect to divine right? Are you asserting Christianity is the only one? These simple minded assertions, make it hard for me consider what you are saying as anything more than rambling, and you assert you opinion as fact. I enjoy to consider contradictor views (the other wings of the eagle if you will)to my own it challenges my thoughts, however yours seem undeveloped without full education, (critiques on mainstream media, they are puppets to their corporate owners). This is why I focus more on the writer.
I have to say it, kids, but you both are very boring. Any point anyone makes that is simply trying to expand the political spectra gets shot down by egg heads who think that they get to identify who is academically qualified to even discuss things. This is why you go after me and my 'lack of education' and my overly simplified version of some 'social study.' The post on which you net crawlers are commenting is about Dams, Levees, and Bridges....I say they shouldnt fall...and you havent said anything about the ideas here...you bring in unrelated things like religion, education, and philosophy. Sorry to say, kids, but Hobbes and Locke have nothing substantial to do about whether or not the M-40 bridge crossing the Rabbit River collapses during rush hour. Yes, its a simple thing...you hire someone who can repair the bridge, he repairs it, and you pay him...if you oppose solutions, just say so. (Oh and, psst, the Constitution isnt the type of "living document" youre describing...if it incorporated every law into it, we wouldnt have an amendment process and it wouldnt be necessary...it dunnit take a PhD to figure that one out, bud). Oh...What the hell is a "full education?" I'm pretty sure you learn your whole life...and your 'education' is never finished...if you want to be fully educated and be able to laud that over me, go die.
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