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To: fatnotlazy

This is knee-jerk anti-government rhetoric and a loser with the voters. Some things---like national defense or
the national transportation---are netter handled on a large scale..some are better handled locally...what matters is EFFECTIVENESS, not ideological purity..
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National transportation...you mean like...uh...Amtrak? A really successful government operation that is. Bleah! :)

___No, I mean airports and the
air traffic control system and the whole interstate highway system---which was one of the largest government programs in history.

Some things must be done on the national level, others on the state or local level...that's true federalism as created by the Framers.
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Defense -- yes, I'll agree....and I don't believe there is a desire to abolish ALL government. Government should provide defense. But what I'm talking about is going over that line wherein we abdicate our rights and responsibilities to the government to take care of ourselves and our loved ones.



And by the way, how do you know this philosophy of less government is a "loser with the voters?" The two major parties have never shown a desire to put it to the voters, and parties like the Libertarians either don't get on the ballot or are not permitted to participate in debates. I'm willing to bet that a lot of voters don't even know there are other options out there

___I guess you've forgotten how Clinton used the government shut down to turn around his political
fortunes and get re-elected by running against Gingrich's anti-government libertarianism?
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379 posted on 04/13/2005 10:32:57 AM PDT by Bushbacker (st)
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To: Bushbacker

No, I mean airports and the air traffic control system and the whole interstate highway system---which was one of the largest government programs in history.

Some things must be done on the national level, others on the state or local level...that's true federalism as created by the Framers.

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Well, federal management of air travel hasn't been all that successful either. As for air traffic controllers, I'm surprised we don't have more accidents given the huge stress these guys and gals are under. And as for security, well...it's uneven at best. Some airports screen to the extreme; others barely do any screening at all.

Highways? Well, I will say we have better signage than in some countries, like Canada. But highway maintenance is uneven at best and downright shoddy in some places. Where I live, though, they do beat the state and locally maintained roads.

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I guess you've forgotten how Clinton used the government shut down to turn around his political fortunes and get re-elected by running against Gingrich's anti-government libertarianism?

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I think Clinton was re-elected because he was able to snow job a lot of people into thinking that Republicans are evil, while the Democrats are the party of the little people. Don't know that such a snow job would work today. In fact, it didn't in the last election.


380 posted on 04/13/2005 11:10:26 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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