"The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves---in their separate, and individual capacities.
No the legitimate object of government is for defense, legislation between two parties, etc. The Framers never saw a day where government would 'help' in that sense. Well except for Calypso Alex and he wanted a king
The other embraces all which, in its nature, and without wrong, requires combined action, as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased, and the machinery of government itself.
Well nothing. Well except it all is none of the business of the government. I talked to a liberal the other day right after the accident in Minnesota. He could have been a Whig from way back the way he was literally whining the government had to 'do' something
But the 16th President fixed us that didn't he? Thank goodness. 140 years later a failing infrastructure built much the same way the Union Pacific was built. Overruns, schemes, shoddy workmanship. Yeah, go union!! Away, preferrably far away.
Not quite as nonsensical as that link you posted, billbears.
No the legitimate object of government is for defense, legislation between two parties, etc. The Framers never saw a day where government would 'help' in that sense. Well except for Calypso Alex and he wanted a king.
And wasn't defense and law enforcement and education and infrastructure four of the things Lincoln mentioned? All legitimate functions of federal and state government.
Well except it all is none of the business of the government.
Why isn't roads and highways and schools a legitimate function of state and local government?
But the 16th President fixed us that didn't he?
In your paranoid world, yes. In the real world the blame can be placed elsewhere.