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To: Torie
He's describing Whigs.
52 posted on 08/15/2003 4:34:01 AM PDT by William McKinley (Who will go this week-- Carter? Nixon? Presidential Survivor http://williammckinley.blogspot.com)
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To: William McKinley
He's describing Whigs.

Well put. A party that claims it knows what's best for you and the rest of the citizens of the respective states than the citizens themselves. A party that claims it 'needs' to take care of things private industry could take care of better and cheaper because it won't get screwed up the first time. Tell that to the road crews working out on that same stretch of highway for the forty fifth time because it wasn't done right the previous forty four times on government contracts.

This leads to the issue of the role of the state. Neocons do not like the concentration of services in the welfare state and are happy to study alternative ways of delivering these services. But they are impatient with the Hayekian notion that we are on "the road to serfdom." Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable

Of course not Irving. You will tell us when we've gone too far, right? You know better than the rest of us so you take care of us until we're so far down that road you speak of that when you tell us we've gone too far, it'll be too late for anyone to help

You're right William, a party of Whigs. A party that in itself was born out of the dreams of a man who wanted an elected king and the federal government to control all. Guess he got his wish didn't he?

98 posted on 08/15/2003 8:54:33 PM PDT by billbears (Deo Vindice)
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