Vote Democrat or Vote Liberty -- You Can't Do Both

Western Hero ^ | 24 Oct 2010 | silverfiddle

[Silverfiddle]

Hayek famously dedicated his book, "The Road to Serfdom" to "Socialists of all parties," and Republicans have earned every bit of criticism they get.  They have eagerly participated in the horrible progressive experiment of the last 100 years.  They say they've changed, and I'm willing to give them one more chance.  With the Democrats, we are guaranteed to continue our death spiral.

100 Years of Progressive Statism is Enough!

Let’s consider, say, the year 1880. Here was a society in which people were free to keep everything they earned, because there was no income tax. They were also free to decide what to do with their own money—spend it, save it, invest it, donate it, or whatever. 

People were generally free to engage in occupations and professions without a license or permit. There were few federal economic regulations and regulatory agencies. 

No Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, bailouts, or so-called stimulus plans. No IRS. No Departments of Education, Energy, Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor. No EPA and OSHA. No Federal Reserve. No drug laws. 

Few systems of public schooling. No immigration controls. No federal minimum-wage laws or price controls. A monetary system based on gold and silver coins rather than paper money. No slavery. No CIA. No FBI. No torture or cruel or unusual punishments. No renditions. No overseas military empire. No military-industrial complex.  (Reason - Up from Serfdom)

We have made great strides since the 1880's, but government has grown into a leviathan, trampling the First, Second, Fourth, Ninth and Tenth Amendment in the process, while stretching out the Commerce and General Welfare clauses into a penumbra so large they block the sun.

The federal government doesn't care more about your state than you and your fellow residents do.

The federal government does not care more about your kids, their education, their souls and their futures than you do.

No government can order your life better than you.  No government cares more about your life, liberty, family and property than you, and no police force is in a better position to defend them from immediate attack than you are.

[FrankR]

[A CA Guy]

It is also against at least one of the Ten Commandments to vote Democrat or socialist IMO.

“Thou shall NOT covet they neighbor’s goods” (other people’s money)

For Bill Clinton
“Thou shall NOT covet thy neighbor’s wife”

[ballplayer]

A vote for a Democrat is to participate in a Bloodless COUP.
The United States will Be finished if it isnt already,at Least we MIGHT have a Fighting Chance if the RATS are defeated,at the very least we can go down fighting for a Righteous cause