Many liberals look up to Stalin economic policies for guidance, and believe in Marxism. They also want to raise taxes like King George did on the colonials-- remember the whole "no taxation without representation" thing?
Can we just agree that there are statists/fascists/socialists/whatever you call them in both parties? There are those that like to use government to force their agenda. Those that think that government can actually solve problems, while FEMA should have been conclusive enough proof that it can't. And then there are those that want to see people free and prosperous.
Rather than having a choice between an statist and a non-statist, we have a choice between Democrat statists and Republican statists, both equally as devastating.
>>> You make some sense between your senselessness...LOL
I'm a Liberal, but in almost 60 years I've never met another Liberal that looks at Stalin as anything but an oppressive totalitatian.
The Boston Tea Party was as much a rebellion against corporations as against government
But your FEMA argument is the most senseless...the only thing it PROVES is Bush was incompetent...
There's always a valid argument for less government and improved efficiency...but there is no valid argument for incompetent government...
IMO...Bush took Reagan's "government is the problem" to mean government needs to be castrated, sabotaged and undermined...
President Obama hit the nail right on the head in his Inaugural Address:
"The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works - whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account - to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day - because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government."
...But your FEMA argument is the most senseless...the only thing it PROVES is Bush was incompetent...
There's always a valid argument for less government and improved efficiency...but there is no valid argument for incompetent government...
Exactly. There was nothing incompetent about FEMA under James Lee Witt. The problems with FEMA during and after Katrina can be laid squarely on Bush's having appointed a person with zero emergency management experience as its head.
And the election of 2008 wasn't a referendum on "big government" versus "small government." It was a repudiation of government that didn't work.
FEMA is characteristic of how the entire government operates. It's the norm, not the exception, hence why I brought it up.
Lew Rockwell: Katrina and Socialist Central Planning
Moreover, 2008 was absolutely not a repudiation of government. Instead it was the opposite. A total embrace of the power and size and scope of government-- the same government that brought on this crisis. Government can never work, no matter which political party is in power. By nature, it is incapable of solving crisis or making lives better.