Tech_Esq
Sic Semper Tyrannis!
What in the hell are you talking about? Who said abolish government? That's just stupid.
The underlying assumption here is some people good - government bad. When you do not support government and seek to enfeeble it, you can call it whatever nonsense floats your boat, but it is still wrong. In this case, simply a matter of bad losers, who not once in the past eight and even longer years mentioned the same BS as government supported corporations and war and waste. You guys are so hypocritical I wonder how it is you trust yourself. And the likes of Beck et al are really the anti Americans as they seek in their bitterness to destroy Obama and their imagined evil government.
"Thomas Jefferson pointed out, in an 1816 letter to William H. Crawford, "Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association." He also pointed out in that letter that some people - and businesses - would prefer that government not play referee to the game of business, not fix rules that protect labor or provide for the protection of the commons and the public good.
We must, Jefferson wrote to Crawford, "...say to all [such] individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond the limits of these principles and involving dangers which the society chooses to avoid, they must go somewhere else for their exercise; that we want no citizens, and still less ephemeral and pseudo-citizens [like corporations], on such terms. We may exclude them from our territory, as we do persons infected with disease.""
Democracy - Not "The Free Market" - Will Save America's Middle Class
I think you are taking as absolutes what people are mentioning as directions. For instance, I'm talking simply about government that operates within its Constitutionally stated limits. That is hardly and "enfeebled" government, just the one that the founders envisioned (or closer to it than it is now). There have been a few wrongly decided decisions that have allowed the government to go beyond its limits and most of us on the right want them re-examined and overturned. That's pretty much it. Hardly some radical proposal for no-government. Hardly being anti-government. It is only pro-limited government.