[Alberta's Child]

The ideas underlying this vision––for example, the notion that the federal government and its agencies are better able to “solve problems” than are local and state governments, or civil society––are taken for granted as self-evident even by many Republicans.

I don't think this is really what's happening here. I believe the "ideas underlying this vision" are twofold, and the promoters of these ideas don't necessarily break down by party affiliation. The two are:

1. The Federal government and its agencies aren't better able to solve any problems, but they're the only viable mechanism to finance our fiscally irresponsible approach to living. They do this by printing money, backing bonds of otherwise dubious value for investors, and using the military to impose our will on trading partners.

2. The Federal government and its agencies aren't supposed to solve any problems. They're supposed to fabricate and perpetuate problems, so that entire industries can be created to "solve" them.

[Graybeard58]

Truman did a similar thing, threatening to nationalize coal mines, fire striking workers and then draft them and put them back to work in the mines as soldiers. Miners must have believed him because they went back to work.

[ripley]

Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

(The increaseingly obnoxious proletariat)

IMHO

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

And the republicans said "Ya, to hell with the Constitution, two can play that game."

And from that day till now, no president, regardless of party has obeyed the US Constitution, they have all, seemed to take the position, that "Communism can work under my leadership".

[DH]

One has to understand that we entered the “nanny” state in 1970.

That’s when women burned their bras and sung songs like “I am woman, hear me roar” and marched off and abandoned the slave plantation called the “housewife.”

From there, many entered government jobs on all levels and many entered politics and won office simply by virtue of two factors: 1. They were women and women voted for women. 2. They flaunted the bait that the majority of women took “hook, line, and sinker” and that was called FAIRNESS.

Now FAIRNESS clearly is the rule of this country...NOT LAW.

No matter what happens “little Johnny” is insulated by the laws due to the overriding desire for FAIRNESS. Civil rights has gone berserk due to FAIRNESS. Hell, even football teams have to change their logos due to FAIRNESS.

Now we have reached the point in the FAIRNESS battle that even the Constitution is ignored (even up to the Supreme Court level) due to the fact that it is LAW and is not FAIR to “little Johnny or little Jane” so it is ignored by those who have been sworn to uphold it.

Life is not FAIR...ask the real taxpayers and those actually abide by the laws of our nation.

[Jim Robinson]

bump!