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Democrats champion nanny government
Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008 | 2:02 a.m.
I am writing in regard to Richard Mundy’s Monday letter, headlined “Democrats are ones looking out for us”:
The Democrats of old are the Republicans of today. History reflects that. My parents voted Democratic until the mid to late ’60s, when the party shifted its philosophy and ideals.
John F. Kennedy said: “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” The Democratic platform of today is: Here is what your government will do for you.
I, like many Americans, do not want big government. I don’t want a handout. A large number of Americans today have become lazy and apathetic and want government to sustain them.
There are Americans requiring and deserving of government assistance, but we all know that many of those programs are abused and those truly in need suffer. We sure don’t need any more government programs to continue spending.
We do not need government to look out for us — most Americans don’t want it. If the American people need something, they should be the ones to dictate its implementation, not the government.
Just so you don’t misunderstand, I do not think John McCain is the golden goose, and I don’t agree with everything he or the Republican Party says or does. I do disagree with the majority of what Barack Obama says and I disagree with his stance on what I consider key issues to this nation.
If the majority of the media weren’t so liberal and one-sided, you might just increase the circulation of your paper, make more profit, and be able to hire more employees. But wait, if you increase your revenue, government will have to take that or, a good chunk of it, to redistribute the wealth, so forget about that profit and creating new jobs.
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When the government hands out money, those handing it out expect a vote in return for power. It's been the democrats way from the beginning.
"But wait, if you increase your revenue, government will have to take that or, a good chunk of it, to redistribute the wealth, so forget about that profit and creating new jobs."
I'll avert my eyes from the financial institutions we just bought and the nationalization that just occurred and pretend it didn't happen.
Is see you like cynicism. Good. Bush has been sooooooo greeeeeat...... Get it? It's funny! I say he's been great, but he's not great! He's bad. That make it funny! Ho...ho..... that's funny. Ho.....
George Libbey, you must be blind deaf and dumb.
You say, "I, like many Americans, do not want big government."
The fact is that government has been enlarged to the greatest extent by the likes of Reagan, Bush and W Bush.
You say, "I don't want a handout."
Just because you, unlike millions of other Americans,haven't been downsized yet, doesn't mean you won't have your hand out when you find yourself out of work and your children hungry and sick.
You say,"We do not need government to look out for us."
Look what happened with Wall Street and the mortgage meltdown because the government was too busy deregulating to look after us.
Food that is safe to eat is a very important way that the government looks after us.
Or do you like melamine in your milk?
Our Armed Forces are another way the government looks after us.
I know you weren't thinking of them, because you weren't thinking at all.
You were just parroting neocon talking points that you heard while listening to the "liberal media" like Rush Windbag, and Bill O'Really on Fake News.
Just like "Joe the Plumber" who makes barely $40K but is so worried about paying a couple hundred more if he ever gets to 250k, you are in la-la land when it comes to truth.
In my definition, a nanny government is one that tries to regulate what goes on in my bedroom, what pictures I can look at, whether birth control is available, and who I can marry.
Your Rovian' "Thousand Year Reich" of Republican rule is about to end because it has been a disaster for all but a few greedy billionaires.
Good riddance.
William "Johnevegas,
1) The government wasnt busy deregulating. That is a myth. There was one financial deregulation rule and a host of others. The meltdown was a government created crisis. Period. Government created rules to increase risk, government increased credit which fueled higher home prices, government regulators (a host of them) simply failed to do their jobs. http://npri.org/blog/the-anatomy-of-a-cr...
2) If government is going to redistribute wealth, the rich are the ones going to get it. They have the money, power, and influence. Poor people don't really vote. This is why Democrats and Republicans both support corporate bailouts, corporate subsidies, and regulations to give market power to favored corporations.
3) As far as American being downsized, whatever that means, remember that job destruction is a part of the economy. Destroyed jobs are jobs that could not be sustained at the price and production levels currently possible in that area. The resources that went into that job (including labor) can now go onto higher valued pursuits...meaning jobs where the market (ie everyone else) is willing to pay for that service.
4) People who like big government tend to give less time and money helping other people.
5) Wanting to help other people, saying you want to help other people, implementing programs supposedly to help other people is different than actually helping other people. Currently America's tax structure favors the rich, the regulatory structure favors the rich, our education system favors the rich, and our welfare system has not yet, nor ever will, remove a single person from poverty... in fact it may actually help sustain it.
Democrats are very quick to defend many of the programs that keep the rich, rich and the poor, poor.
6) Bush sucks, he was a big government Rockefeller Republican who wanted more powerful centralized government (just like Democrats) but he wanted to borrow and spend instead of tax and spend.
for #5: http://npri.org/blog/paying-taxes-doesnt...
7) Yes a nanny government regulates what goes on in your bedroom, it also regulates how you can decorate it, where it can be located, what can be done on your property, what you can eat, where you can smoke.
Yes, a nanny government regulates the food you eat (this regulation isnt about keeping you safe, notice all the times the government fails to do this?, this regulation is about increasing prices by keeping competition out).
william you are funny, you say republican rule is about to end. you are convinced that obama is the chosen one who will solve all your problems, question is, how much will you hate obama when he has not improved your life one bit in a year? or four years?
Should smoking be banned in the casinos?
On one hand, there are and will be casino workers that will die from second hand smoke.
On the other hand, Las Vegas will lose thousand of jobs and the state budget will probably have to be cut by another 20%.
smoking in casinos should be decided by owners of casinos.
employees and customers can work or gamble there if they want to or not.
Nanny government - the suicide catcher net under the Golden Gate bridge.
This is very simple, let people do stupid things to themselves, it's called evolution in action. Oh, wait, evolution is just a theory and the supreme creator knows what's best for us, such as millions upon millions killed because they believe in the wrong supreme being.
I can see why San Fran would put a net under the Golden Gate Bridge. Do you want to have to fish out of the Bay some sodden half rotted corpse that been floating around for God knows how long?
Maybe if people werent taxed so much in California they could buy things to improve their lives...therby being less inclined to jump in the first place.
Yeah, taxes are the reason for suicide in California, yeah...
Need you be reminded that California is under a republican governor, The Governator? It isn't the taxes that make California expensive, it's the land, the rent, the energy, you know the big things.