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christos99
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Guys, I don't want to move out, I realize that this is the greatest country on earth. It's my home, I was born here. Also, I'm not a bleeding heart liberal. I'm a libertarian (classical liberal). I wrote a couple of messages complaining about big government, which is what the republicans are supposed to do but they haven't done that in over 50 years. Well, I suppose nixon, reagan, and bush sr. did but they ended up just making government bigger - not to the degree the democrats do, so I guess there's your difference.
All I try to do is offer the point of view of the founding fathers, offer classical American viewpoints. This is supposed to be the land of a free market without government regulation and taxation. This is supposed to be the land of freedom of speech, and freedom from search and seizure. But I guarantee posting messages of these types probably has the government reading all my emails and listening to my phone calls which is a really scary idea to me.
I know about other countries in the world, I travel all the time, and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else either, just to have America return to the values that made it great here. 100 years ago there weren't any drug laws, income tax, gun laws, immigration laws, we never got involved in foreign affairs... Was the country falling apart? Not until the federal government created the income tax, along with the federal reserve bank - which in turn lead to the great depression. That's a short argument, and if you want evidence, read nobel prize winning economist Milton Friedman sometime..
madhouse you wrote:
"THE PROBLEM IS, WHO WANTS TWICE AS MUCH FROM THE GOV'T?? try getting it on your own"
What do I get from the government? Protection? Look at sept. 11th. It scares me to death that there are people in the middle east who want to kill me because of actions of my government that I have absolutely nothing to do with. And I don't think killing more people out there is going to solve the problem.
"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other."
- James Madison
"The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible"
- George Washington
All I try to do is offer the point of view of the founding fathers, offer classical American viewpoints. This is supposed to be the land of a free market without government regulation and taxation. This is supposed to be the land of freedom of speech, and freedom from search and seizure. But I guarantee posting messages of these types probably has the government reading all my emails and listening to my phone calls which is a really scary idea to me.
I know about other countries in the world, I travel all the time, and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else either, just to have America return to the values that made it great here. 100 years ago there weren't any drug laws, income tax, gun laws, immigration laws, we never got involved in foreign affairs... Was the country falling apart? Not until the federal government created the income tax, along with the federal reserve bank - which in turn lead to the great depression. That's a short argument, and if you want evidence, read nobel prize winning economist Milton Friedman sometime..
madhouse you wrote:
"THE PROBLEM IS, WHO WANTS TWICE AS MUCH FROM THE GOV'T?? try getting it on your own"
What do I get from the government? Protection? Look at sept. 11th. It scares me to death that there are people in the middle east who want to kill me because of actions of my government that I have absolutely nothing to do with. And I don't think killing more people out there is going to solve the problem.
"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other."
- James Madison
"The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible"
- George Washington
