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To: Hank Kerchief; bcsco; metmom; Coleus; narses; BykrBayb; floriduh voter; Lesforlife; annalex; ...
I just disagree with you, and think what you want will ultimately produce the opposite of what you seek. Government is not the solution, as Ronald Regan [sic] said, “government is the problem.”

There are a few Reagan quotes that libertarian anarchists love to misquote and that is one of them.

President Reagan was saying that government intervention would create more problems in the 1982 recession, he WAS NOT saying that the government was always the problem.

What you are trying to attribute to President Reagan is the idea that he would have opposed laws outlawing abortion and nothing could be further from the truth.

106 posted on 04/06/2010 5:01:30 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

“What you are trying to attribute to President Reagan is the idea that he would have opposed laws outlawing abortion and nothing could be further from the truth.”

I know exactly what the context of Ronald Reagan’s statement was. I’m not attributing anything to him. I was not quoting it as authority, it was rhetorical for a principle, that government involvement in anything is always a problem.

If you decide that government ought to have the power to decide medical issues, and what a woman must or must not do with regard to her unborn child, you’ve accepted that principle, and have no argument when the government decides a woman who already has one or two children must abort any additional children, and you have no argument against ObamaCare.

I do not want the government to have that power, ever.

Hank


110 posted on 04/06/2010 5:30:36 AM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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