Posted on 10/17/2014 5:00:49 AM PDT by LeoMcNeil
WRONG. For liberals increasing the size and scope of government is an end in itself. They have no concrete expectations that anything will be done better. They worship government for its own sake. Government is what they've substitutied for God, and anyonw who tries to limit it isn't just an opponenet in their viewpoint, but a blasphemer.
To slightly paraphrase Stuart Chase, "For the true believer no proof is necessary and no disproof possible."
Less than three weeks till smackdown.
Something I don’t understand: if the regime won’t ban travel to and from West Africa, why don’t airlines just stop providing service? What’s Elmer Fudd going to do, threaten them with audits?
At this point, he is powerless if people just say “Pi$$ off”.
BTW, what is the IRS to do if people file income taxes with the “best available” data and attach a letter admitting that it is “probably incorrect but we had a computer crash and our records were destroyed.”
I think there are some progressives who believe in expanding government regardless of whether government is competent. Obama and his ilk may be of this belief. However, I think rank and file liberals truly expect government to do things better than the private sector. As the it becomes apparent that the Obama administration is completely inept at managing government, these people are increasingly disappointed. For moderates, they’re increasingly skeptical of the ability of government.
This works to the GOP’s advantage in two ways. Disappointed rank and file liberals may stay home next month, which increases the odds that the GOP wins the Senate. In 2016, skeptical moderates may be more inclined to vote for a Republican who articulates a smaller government approach. In the very least, the moderates are ripe for the taking from the GOP perspective.
An article V convention is the only peaceful solution other than secession and forming a new Republic.
Government is force, violence and coercion. It is not reason or cooperation. The bigger it gets, the more force and violence. When it is minimal, force and violence is minimal and just used against evil doers, criminals. As it grows it gains more and more victims.
The airlines could possibly refuse to offer service from these West African countries to the US. However, they may not be allowed under the law to ban a traveler from West Africa. For example, if someone from West Africa flew to Paris to catch a flight to the US, American Airline companies might be prohibited from discriminating against such a traveler. I get the impression that most, if not all, of the travelers from West Africa come to the US in this manner. We’re only talking about 150 travelers, most of whom go to 5 airports. I’m guessing there might be one or two direct flights each week but most are coming via airports in Europe.
Conservative Republicans:
Telling You that Big Government Just Doesn’t Work since 1964.
Obama doesn’t really believe in “big” government. He believes in killer government.
He is using the government to commit mass murder of Americans. He wants Ebola and the O’Malley-Gomez virus to kill as many Americans as possible.
An article V convention IS secession and forming a new Republic. No amount of safegaurds can possibly prevent this. Regardless of charters and promises conventioneers will have absolute authority to completely rewrite the Constitution. Do you honestly believe Marxists will not be in charge of this process?
Absolutely correct. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, whether vested in an individual or a class.
Limited government can be controlled by the election process. Massive government cannot be controlled by any means short of God's impending doom.
Invoking Article V is extremely dangerous for the cause of liberty. I wouldn’t trust that progressives would be prevented from taking over a Constitutional Convention.
Then ban all international travel until the “crisis” is over.
Might want to do something about the Southern border while we’re at it./s
I don’t think it’s necessary to ban all international travel. Instead, the government should ban all travel to the United States by people who have traveled in West African nations during the 30 days prior to attempting to come to the US.
Perhaps some, but 0's approval rating is STILL 39%, so that would indicate that 39% of the electorate are not sufficiently disappointed in the government's performance to disapprove of it. Hard core government worshipers.
Lets HOPE it's a smackdown for the Democrats.
...the government agency Centers For Disease Control (CDC) is so incompetent that theyre actually making the Ebola problem worse. Practically the entire country is screaming for a travel ban from West Africa. The CDC so far refuses, claiming that shutting down travel would destroy West African economies. Because of course Ebola on its own isnt doing that. Meanwhile the CDC is wasting millions on nonsense nutrition programs and not setting up global health facilities like Congress directed them to. Theyre also havent been spending money on Ebola research. They whine they dont have enough money but Congress recently gave them more money than the Obama administration asked for. The CDC looks utterly clueless when it comes to Ebola, they appear to have no idea what theyre doing. This is a common theme among government under Obama.Zero was the first almost-half-black-president, and will be the last black president of any kind for generations.
There are any number of reasons why people might say they approve of Obama’s job performance that don’t include actual performance. There are a lot of Democrats who will say they approve of Obama no matter how much he’s disappointed them. There are blacks who will say they approve for no other reason than they feel they have to. The flip side is also true, there are any number of Republicans who will disapprove of Obama even if they really don’t have a problem with what he’s done. This is true of every President, a substantial number of people in his party approve no matter what and a substantial number of people in the other party disapprove no matter what.
A better indication of people’s disapproval of the President is their response to the question do you think the country is headed in the right or wrong direction? Wrong direction has been in the 60’s for years now. That suggests people don’t like the direction Obama is taking the country, even hardcore liberal Democrats.
People who laugh at the PO and DMV love “the government.” What overcomes first-hand experience?
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