Posted on 09/09/2009 7:36:47 AM PDT by mnehring
... "Americans seem easily to forget that individual rights and freedoms depend fundamentally on vigorous state action," Holmes and Sunstein write. "Without effective government, American citizens would not be able to enjoy their private property in the way they do. Indeed, they would enjoy few or none of their constitutionally guaranteed individual rights. Personal liberty, as Americans value and experience it, presupposes social cooperation managed by government officials. The private realm we rightly prize is sustained, indeed created, by public action."
Holmes and Sunstein are not Marxists. They vigorously defend property rights and the value of a society that "encourages personal initiative, social cooperation and self-improvement." But they also note that public programs commonly described as "redistributive" are essential to the social stability on which property owners depend. Welfare rights, they argue, "compensate the indigent for receiving less value than the rich from the rights ostensibly guaranteed equally to all Americans." And, especially in the case of education, government expenditures promote both initiative and self- improvement....
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The vote on Cass Sunstein is today. Let's stop this radical Czar.
In other words: "Americans seem easily to forget that freedom is slavery."
More liberal clap-trap. Take an old whore (communism), give it a new dress (social stability), push it to the street corner (White House) and hope the johns (Senators) buy it.
Yes, enough with these red Czars.
We love Big Brother....
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He’s right you know. Sunstein is not a marxist. He is a National Socialist.
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