- Moderator
- #21
I am going to be honest with you....I like some government and living within a first world society.
1. I want good infrastructure that doesn't fall apart as I drive across bridges
2. I want clean water and air...The epa has done a good job these past 40 years. China or India is utterly unacceptable for America.
3. I want clean food and medication. I don't want to live in a nation that looks like Mexico or China for our standards.
4. I believe antitrust is needed to protect the little guy starting up his business from the sharks.
5. I believe in a safetynet for our poor and disabled. That is the moral and right thing to do.
6. I believe in science and advancement into tech....We're cutting edge because we do what the rest of the third world doesn't.
7. I believe in education for all. Education is at the core of our success as a nation.
8. I believe in workers rights and safety standards.
If you think we don't need any of this and it is "want", want, want...Well, maybe you don't belong within a civilized society.
Conservatards also believe in those things. What they don't believe in is paying for those things.
It's almost as if they think Jesus will sprinkle his magic fairy dust around and those things will magically happen.
Lying and mocking the Lord. Both pretty crummy things to do.
The issue isn't whether we pay for it but who pays for it.
Do I pay for it through my hard work and industry? Or does someone else pay for it, i.e. the government ?
Does the state pay for it or the federal government?
Do we keep the power in our hands and locally or do we send it to a centralized power thousands of miles away from us and the problems we face?
Do we pretend to do something by telling some politician or bureaucrat to take someone else's money to "fix" the problem or do we get off our ass and fix it ourselves?
Because have you ever noticed that no matter how much power and money we send these guys to fix problems the problems continue to be problems each campaign?