What exactly have Liberals done for us?

[rightwinger]

1. Fought for the rights of the individual against a monarchy. Wrote our Declaration of Independence and Constitution...."All men are created equal"
2. Fought for the abolition of Slavery
3. Fought for worker rights.....40 hour workweek, safe workplace, child labor laws
4. Fought for our environment
5. Fought for a womans right to vote
6. Fought for Civil Rights
7. Fought for Gay rights
8. Fought for womens equality in the workplace
9. Social Security, Medicare, Medicade

It should be noted that conservatives fought against every one of these initiatives

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Public Housing.
Public Schools.
Devastated US Housing Market by Bankrupting Fannie & Freddie.
SocSecurity, Medicare and Medicare all on similar glide path to bankruptcy and eventual civil war.
Threatened AAA rating of US government
Gave us the first ever unAmerican geniune Marxist President: BHObama

 

[bodecea]

1. Fought for the rights of the individual against a monarchy. Wrote our Declaration of Independence and Constitution...."All men are created equal"
2. Fought for the abolition of Slavery
3. Fought for worker rights.....40 hour workweek, safe workplace, child labor laws
4. Fought for our environment
5. Fought for a womans right to vote
6. Fought for Civil Rights
7. Fought for Gay rights
8. Fought for womens equality in the workplace
9. Social Security, Medicare, Medicade

It should be noted that conservatives fought against every one of these initiatives

That is why Liberals are Evil Incarnate.

 

[MaggieMae]

Public Housing.
Public Schools.
Devastated US Housing Market by Bankrupting Fannie & Freddie.
SocSecurity, Medicare and Medicare all on similar glide path to bankruptcy and eventual civil war.
Threatened AAA rating of US government
Gave us the first ever unAmerican geniune Marxist President: BHObama

That's all your other stupid buddies in there. Comfy? ^^​

 

[Fatality]

What exactly have Liberals done for us?

 

[Xenophon]

Two world wars

Korea

Vietnam

Countless suffering

Hundreds of thousands of dead Americans in foriegn causes

Of course, classic liberalism the was in vouge in the 19th century and before was a great thing, the modern version is a not.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Public Housing.
Public Schools.
Devastated US Housing Market by Bankrupting Fannie & Freddie.
SocSecurity, Medicare and Medicare all on similar glide path to bankruptcy and eventual civil war.
Threatened AAA rating of US government
Gave us the first ever unAmerican geniune Marxist President: BHObama

That's all your other stupid buddies in there. Comfy? ^^​

"These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis," -- Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. "The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing."

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The Librul who wants your Health Care Proxy

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbpWonUzlrc]YouTube - Obama Gaffe[/ame]

 

[Fatality]

The Librul who wants your Health Care Proxy

YouTube - Obama Gaffe

rather have doc holiday coughing TB into my lungs.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Libruls also gave us Income Tax and the Federal Reserve System

 

[EriktheRed]

Public Housing.
Public Schools.
Devastated US Housing Market by Bankrupting Fannie & Freddie.
SocSecurity, Medicare and Medicare all on similar glide path to bankruptcy and eventual civil war.
Threatened AAA rating of US government
Gave us the first ever unAmerican geniune Marxist President: BHObama

All either bullshit or stuff that's based on your opinion, especially the last one.


Keep that bitterness coming.

 

[rightwinger]

Libruls also gave us Income Tax and the Federal Reserve System

Both were essential for our emergence as a SuperPower

 

[rightwinger]

1. Fought for the rights of the individual against a monarchy. Wrote our Declaration of Independence and Constitution...."All men are created equal"
2. Fought for the abolition of Slavery
3. Fought for worker rights.....40 hour workweek, safe workplace, child labor laws
4. Fought for our environment
5. Fought for a womans right to vote
6. Fought for Civil Rights
7. Fought for Gay rights
8. Fought for womens equality in the workplace
9. Social Security, Medicare, Medicade

It should be noted that conservatives fought against every one of these initiatives

And it won't be long now we can add healthcare to the list......also another issue the republicans are on th ewrong side of history

 

[Freedomlover]

Liberals do not do things for us. They do things to us!

 

[rightwinger]

Liberals do not do things for us. They do things to us!

Oh really?

40 hour week
Child labor laws
equal rights in the workplace
civil rights
gay rights

What did that do TO you?

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

Libruls also gave us Income Tax and the Federal Reserve System

Both were essential for our emergence as a SuperPower

Not even remotely.

 

[Freedomlover]

You are all mixed up about "Classic Liberals" and modern day Liberals. The founders of our nation were "Classic Liberals" which is summed up best by one of the founders of the Democratic Party, Thomas Jefferson. His words are "The government that governs least governs best". Modern Liberals have turned this on its head and say "the government that governs most governs best." Too bad the Democratic Party has turned its back on Jefferson's words. He and the other founders based their philosophy on FREEDOM of the individual and personal responsibility for one's actions. So, don't dump the founders in with many of the other "Liberals" you listed, they are complete opposites. Read your history and maybe you can get it straight. By the way, another history lesson. If were not for Republican votes in the Senate the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would not have passed because many Democrats were opposed to it.

 

[midcan5]

If everyone were conservative we'd still be living in caves howling at the moon. When you read the conservatives online some may still be there.

But in fairness you have to give them credit for the Great Depression, the recent financial collapse, enormous debt, unnecessary wars, and more wealth for those already wealthy. Nothing more - and I defy any of them to give me a concrete, verifiable accomplishment that wasn't started by liberals and progressives or just the natural run of history.

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[rightwinger]

The cheap-labor conservatives:


Supported George III in the American Revolution. Fully a third of the population of the colonies didn’t even want independence.

Supported protection for the institution of slavery in the Constitutional convention. This included the bizarre insistence that slaves be counted in determining slave state representation in Congress. Slaves were people according to conservative planters, but only for purposes of counting them. Those same interests also prevented regulation of the importation of slaves prior to 1808.
Opposed tariffs to protect American manufacturing. Reactionary southern planters failed to grasp the need to develop our own industrial base. They preferred to operate a slave labor driven cash crop economy for the simple reason that they – the wealthy planters that is – profited from economic underdevelopment.
Supported “nullification”, which said that states didn’t have to enforce federal laws they didn’t like. This “theory”, such as it was, was in direct contradiction to the provision of the US Constitution that made federal law “the supreme law of the land”.
Supported repeal of the Missouri Compromise so as to allow slavery in places like Nebraska and the deserts of New Mexico.
Opposed the transcontinental railroad, because it might encourage small farmers who owned no slaves to settle in western territories. Contemporary conservative pundit, Joseph Sobran has dressed up opposition to this as a “principled” stand against “big government” proponents like Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln.
Opposed the Homestead Act for the same reason.
Opposed freedom of speech for Southern opponents of slavery. It seems the institution of slavery became so sacred, the conservative southern planters made it a crime to speak out against it. Before the 14th amendment, freedom of speech was not required of the states.
Declared – contrary to Jefferson’s dictum that “all men are created equal” – that “the black man has no rights the white man is bound to respect”. This was the holding of Dred Scott v. Sandford, perhaps the single worst opinion in the history of the US Supreme Court.
Supported destruction of the union rather than allow Congress to so much as restrict slavery to places where it already existed.
Opposed the earliest civil rights legislation to enforce the 14th and 15th amendments.
Obstructed, intimidated and harassed newly freed slaves who attempted to exercise their Federal civil rights, including the right to vote.
Opposed preserving the union. Northern cheap-labor conservatives, not surprisingly, either actively or tacitly supported southern secession. This should not surprise us since Northern manufacturers were discovering the wonders of “wage slavery”, and didn’t necessarily have a problem with the southern version of “property slavery”.
Supported a “mono-metal” currency standard. This policy is what William Jennings Bryant referred to in his famous “Cross of Gold” speech. Little remembered or understood today, this policy led to a deflation that began shortly after 1873, and lasted for a generation – condemning southern and western farmers to poverty that lasted until the New Deal.
Supported the violent suppression of early efforts of industrial workers to unionize.
Supported the acquisition of foreign colonies in the wake of the Spanish-American war.
Supported the armed suppression of Filipino independence.
Opposed anti-trust legislation.
Opposed child labor laws.
Opposed universal free public education. Some of them still do.
Opposed literacy for African-American citizens, in particular.
Supported the legal theory of “separate but equal”, a sham that led to . . .
Supported the establishment of “Jim Crow” in the south.
Opposed state laws guaranteeing minimum wages and restricting working hours for industrial workers.
Opposed the right to vote for women.
Supported prohibition.
Opposed the League of Nations – and continue to oppose US participation in the United Nations.
Were involved in countless financial and government scandals, including, manipulation of stock prices during the Civil War, rampant cronyism and nepotism during the Grant administration, the Teapot Dome scandal in the 1920’s, Watergate, the Savings and Loan crisis, the present “no bid” contracts for Halliburton – the former employer of the Vice President – and many, many more.
Opposed agricultural subsidies, the Tennessee Valley Authority, Rural Electrification, and almost all of the rest of the New Deal.
Opposed Social Security.
Opposed the Fair Labor Standards Act establishing the eight hour work day and overtime pay.
Opposed the National Labor Relations Act guaranteeing workers the right to collectively bargain.
Opposed US entry into World War II to fight fascism.
Traded with the Nazi’s during the war. Noteworthy cheap-labor conservatives “trading with the enemy” included Henry Ford and one Prescott Bush, father and grandfather to two Presidents.
Opposed the GI Bill of Rights.
Opposed creation of the United Nations.
Opposed the Marshall Plan.
Opposed FHA Mortgages.
Opposed the creation of Interstate Highways. These had to be billed as the “National Defense Interstate Highway System” to get some of them to go along with it.
Opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Opposed the Civil Rights of 1964.
Opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Opposed Medicare.
Supported both overt and covert intervention, leading to the creation of right-wing dictatorships in Iran, Guatamala, Cuba [before Castro, mind you], Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, the Congo, Chile, Brazil, El Salvador, the Phillipines, Indonesia and many others.
Supported the war in Vietnam including “bombing them back to the stone age”.
Supported covert and illegal air strikes against Cambodia.
Supported domestic “surveillance” of opponents of the war, civil right supporters and other “dissidents” who believed in things like equality and democracy.
Opposed the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts.
Opposed the Equal Rights Amendment.
Supported shifting the tax burden from the top to the middle, and the creation of massive deficits for the purpose of bankrupting the Federal Government.
Opposed the act creating “family leave” – unpaid mind you.
Opposed and continue to oppose National Health Insurance.
Support taxing the wages of working people, but not passive investment income such as dividends and “capital gains”.
Support “vouchers” to subsidize parochial and private schools, in order to create a “two tiered” educational system. Remember, they opposed universal public education. See Item # 20, above.
Support “free trade” policies that allow US manufacturers to export jobs to third world cesspools.
Support the dictatorial regimes in those same third world cesspools.
Oppose restrictions on green house gasses and other pollutants.
Support “privitization” of Social Security, something they have hated since its inception, and which they have concocted a novel way to get rid of.
Oppose government support for the development of alternatives to fossil fuels, but they . . .
Support invasion of Middle Eastern countries like Iraq, in order to secure our supply of those same fossil fuels.

 

[bodecea]

You are all mixed up about "Classic Liberals" and modern day Liberals. The founders of our nation were "Classic Liberals" which is summed up best by one of the founders of the Democratic Party, Thomas Jefferson. His words are "The government that governs least governs best". Modern Liberals have turned this on its head and say "the government that governs most governs best." Too bad the Democratic Party has turned its back on Jefferson's words. He and the other founders based their philosophy on FREEDOM of the individual and personal responsibility for one's actions. So, don't dump the founders in with many of the other "Liberals" you listed, they are complete opposites. Read your history and maybe you can get it straight. By the way, another history lesson. If were not for Republican votes in the Senate the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would not have passed because many Democrats were opposed to it.

Classic Liberals = doing things we like now but were very radical back then

Modern Day Liberals = OMIGOD! Radicals!