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I remember this interview the actor Rob Lowe did on Hannity(and he did one on Oreilly too).
West Wing Star Rob Lowe Praises Conservatives? Right-Wing Politics Based on 'Logic' | NewsBusters.org
I just was talking about it the other day with a friend and I thought I would re-hash it here and see your various views. Rob Lowe use to be very liberal(like most actors in hollywood) and he stated as he got older he found his views becoming more conservative. He now considers himself a "centrist".
Oreilly said he was over simplying it - but I actually think Rob Lowe hit the nail on the head. Basically he said - Liberalism is based on empathy and Conservatism is based on logic.
It really makes sense. A conservative walks by and sees a begger on the street - and he will do one of two things - give the guy a few bucks, or give him nothing thinking he is lazy and should get a job.
The true blue liberal - would say we need a government program to make sure there are no poor people on the streets. FDR back in the depression actually advocated for a second bill of rights - one in which not only do we have the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness - but also where we are guarenteeed minimal results.
Here are some of the rights FDR mentioned every American should have:
The right of every family to a decent home;
The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
The right to a good education.
Second Bill of Rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Are these not things that liberals argue for today? free housing, free medical care, pensions, unending unemployment benefits and free college education?
The problem is NOTHING is FREE. Someone has to pay for it. And no even if you take all the money that the top 2 percent make - its not enough to pay for FDRs second bill of rights. He tried it - he raised the top brackets to something like 94 percent! Then he wanted to make it 100% for top income earners.
But even with a 94% top tax bracket(soaking the rich for all they had) FDR was still unable to solve the nations economic woes, and he certainly was not able to give free housing, medical care and education for all.
FDR's own treasure secretary said
Henry Morgenthau, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong … somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises. … I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. … And an enormous debt to boot"
Sound familar like what we face today?
It was only after the death FDR, and ending of WWII that great depression actually ended. It was due largely in part to something liberals hate - lowering of corporate taxes(like on excess profits) and lowering of marginal rates(in 1945,1946 and 1948). Kennedy also figured that out and did the unliberal thing of cutting them big again - and he saw good economic turn arounds as well.
All you "Emotional" people just keep on hanging with that shit and see where you end up.
Folks who thump on the back of a book of fairy tales, think they are going to meet the creator of the universe after they're dead, carry guns, fly their confederate flags in the back window of their pickup.....think it's just fine to cut taxes for the richest people in America and go in debt to cover the shortfall, believe the men in congress should be able to govern what a woman and her doctor might decide about her health, that a man with no legs can pull himself up by his bootstraps, etc. talking about logic would be like a mental patient advising Peyton Manning about how to throw a football.
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