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We've Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers. More people work for government than most industries.
Wall Street Journal ^ | 04/01/2011 | Stephen Moore

Posted on 04/01/2011 7:56:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: WOBBLY BOB
RE :”Government Unions Are Different

My point in #17 was they (Democrats/liberals) are purposefully blurring that fact and convincing non-government taxpayer voters that their rights are being threatened too by the government union measures. They are poll testing those phrases and using them as weapons. The fact that you and I and 99% of freepers understand the issue doesn't mean we have won (yet many freepers seem to think the opposite.)

Anyway here is attempt to regain the message, I posted a thread here with this great video in it:
Youtube : A Liberal Teacher explains Union Busting

21 posted on 04/01/2011 9:45:51 AM PDT by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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To: mjp
Heard this a long time ago and it hit me then and still does:

Government doesn't work.

22 posted on 04/01/2011 9:56:31 AM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It is too late to stop the leftist vermin. This system of government was never intended to function with half the population behaving in the most despicable way any human could ever act.

If you have children then I suggest you all kiss them goodbye. There will be NOTHING in their futures but poverty, misery, torment, and death. They are finished. They are as good as dead.

The only thing to do is get some revenge on the enemy and then take our own lives before they manage to capture us.


23 posted on 04/01/2011 9:59:26 AM PDT by Soothesayer (smallpox is not a person)
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To: SeekAndFind

How many paper pushers can they hire? who’s going to do the labor work?Oh wait I got the mexicans.


24 posted on 04/01/2011 10:13:49 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: SpringtoLiberty; SeekAndFind; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; calcowgirl
A tax revolt, or serious enforcement of the 10th amendment by courageous governors.

Bloat in the government payroll is not limited to just the Federal government, so I'm not sure exactly what you're getting at here.

25 posted on 04/01/2011 10:20:46 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: The_Reader_David

Thank you for the only sane post on this entire thread.


26 posted on 04/01/2011 10:22:04 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: edcoil; SeekAndFind
We only have the government to blame and our fellow citizens that elected liberals.

The statist disease is not limited to liberals. Conservatives suffer from it too.

27 posted on 04/01/2011 10:24:32 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: rabscuttle385

In a word?

Secession.

A free and independent republic of Texas.


28 posted on 04/01/2011 10:25:24 AM PDT by SpringtoLiberty (Liberty is on the march!)
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To: rabscuttle385

Republicans suffer from it.

Conservatives, by definition, do not.


29 posted on 04/01/2011 10:28:16 AM PDT by SpringtoLiberty (Liberty is on the march!)
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To: SpringtoLiberty
We may need to start thinking about a plan B. I'm not sure elections are going to undue the damage. A tax revolt, or serious enforcement of the 10th amendment by courageous governors.

Our last chance before plan B is the 2012 election. If we don't take both houses and the White House with a conservative revolution and if they do what needs to be done, we may survive. That's why 2012 is so important. Barring that it's on to plan B. . .

30 posted on 04/01/2011 10:28:43 AM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: SpringtoLiberty
Republicans suffer from it. Conservatives, by definition, do not.

Definitions aside, many conservatives are dumb enough to vote Republican--even statist Republican--even if evidence of their statist tendencies is paraded about in public.

31 posted on 04/01/2011 10:30:53 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: rabscuttle385

I’m not trying to pick a fight here.

I’m just saying that if you ARE a conservative, then statism is the exact opposite of what you believe in.

Maybe what you meant is that are people in the “Republican” party who claim to be conservatives but are only using true conservatives to keep themselves in office.

In mu opinion those people are more dangerous than the die hard liberal.


32 posted on 04/01/2011 10:32:19 AM PDT by SpringtoLiberty (Liberty is on the march!)
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To: rabscuttle385
Thank you for the only sane post on this entire thread.

Even though he is correct on the manufacturing data it does change the reality of explosive government growth destroying our Republic. The parasite class (govt at all levels) is growing at a pace that unsustainable. The parasite class will surely crush and kill the golden goose of capitalism.

At all levels government spending and controls are pushing us towards a socialist hell. For our Republic to survive, government at ALL levels must be severely slashed.

33 posted on 04/01/2011 10:35:29 AM PDT by sand88
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To: Art in Idaho

I want so bad for us to turn it around in 2012. I really really do.

But look what has happened in WI.

The people voted in record numbers and in an historic fashion to get conservatives in office.

But, did that matter to the left? Even after they passed a LAW! the leftists have found ways to ignore the will of the people. So, although I want to believe that an electoral repudiation of statism will happen in 2012, I think that the left is too emboldened and too entrentched for elections to matter now.


34 posted on 04/01/2011 10:36:52 AM PDT by SpringtoLiberty (Liberty is on the march!)
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To: rabscuttle385
The statist disease is not limited to liberals. Conservatives suffer from it too.

you hit the nail on the head. The Statist on our side are just as dangerous as the ones on the left. Statism is a cancer on Liberty.

35 posted on 04/01/2011 10:37:47 AM PDT by sand88
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To: rabscuttle385

Not conservatives but many in the current GOP-Republican party.


36 posted on 04/01/2011 10:43:40 AM PDT by edcoil (Rule One: Fear No Man)
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To: SpringtoLiberty
Secession. A free and independent republic of Texas.

That doesn't do anything to solve the problem.

A "free and independent republic of Texas" can just as easily suffer from rampant, runaway statism as a nation of fifty States and associated territories.

37 posted on 04/01/2011 10:46:10 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: rabscuttle385

All governments fail. All of them. A new nation would give us the opportunity to return to first principals of liberty and then we would have a few generations before yet another eventual bloat and revolt.

Nothing new under the sun here.


38 posted on 04/01/2011 11:25:10 AM PDT by SpringtoLiberty (Liberty is on the march!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Depressing! Just wait until the government sector (and net recipients of government largesse) become 50% of the population. They'll just vote themselves bigger paychecks.

It's time to go Galt, folks!

I've been explaining the situation as if this were an upside-down food pyramid. Growth and prosperity begins with the raw material and manufacturing base. If it's healthy enough, we can have a thriving service sector. On top of this is government, supported only by the profitability of all the sectors beneath it.

Unfortunately, the base is dwindling, which means there will be less demand for services, which means we can afford less and less government. But, even through this ongoing recession, government has been the one and only growth sector. It's insane.

39 posted on 04/01/2011 11:49:25 AM PDT by Fredgoblu
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To: SeekAndFind

Consumer Non-Producers !


40 posted on 04/01/2011 12:22:38 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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