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To: eno_
What do you think is the better way to return to the pre-New Deal culture?

A) First, maximize individual freedom by eliminating laws against drugs, gambling, pornography, and prostitution. Then, after we've swelled the ranks of those using government services such as medical care, foodstamps, housing, welfare, etc., then we cut the legs out from under them by eliminating all these government social programs. Or

B) First, get rid of the nanny state that takes care of us from cradle to grave. Eliminate welfare, food stamps, HUD, Education, Commerce, and all these alphabet agencies. Then, and only then, do we look at changing our laws.

26 posted on 09/26/2004 1:57:27 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen

You will never eradicate the whoremonger and addict.

We can have, and not too long ago did have, a much smaller government.

If you predicate the second on achieving the first, you will never get there. You are a "social conservative" in the same way there are supposed "fiscal conservatives" that think spending cuts must come before tax cuts.


28 posted on 09/26/2004 2:04:13 PM PDT by eno_ (Freedom Lite, it's almost worth defending.)
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To: robertpaulsen
What do you think is the better way to return to the pre-New Deal culture?

The post New Deal culture we need to get rid of is inside the beltway.

29 posted on 09/26/2004 2:11:04 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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