Ann Coulter

[Dennis The B]

If the "true conservative" is the good kind, can the same be said for the "true liberal." Or are all liberals bad?

That's a rhetorical question. The Nazi card has been played, so I'll bow out now.

I would not label all "true liberals" as "all bad". In many cases they are altruistic, and only seek "what's best" for others. However, their altruism, in most instances, results in self-destruction, and/or the lack of measurable results. They think that as long as they care, and are endowed with funds from others, that this is all that counts. This is what's happened with all social programs launched by any level of government. The federal poverty programs have spent trillions, yet we have an ever higher number of those who demand those services. Social programs have never been successful, because they never resolve the root problem they were put in place to repair.

Most modern liberals also lack any fundamental understanding of economics. This is nothing new to the twenty-first century. The appalling lack of economic knowledge by politicians since Herbert Hoover is just the tip of the iceberg. They lack the simple understanding (or purposely ignore the fact) that government does not create wealth. Government only takes away wealth from those who have created it, and redistributes it to those who do not create wealth.

The acronymic olio of government programs created in the Franklin Roosevelt administration exacerbated a recession, and created the Great Depression. As an example, it was the deliberate meddling in the economic process that created the large number of bank failures in the 1930's. Roosevelt's programs kept unemployment percentages well into the teens, until the start of World War II.

The modern "true liberal" (progressive) believes in the predominance of the government, and a growing central government has become the problem.

The term "social liberal, fiscal conservative" is oxymoronic on its face. Social programs require wealth redistribution. And wealth redistribution is the antithesis of a free society.

No one played the "Nazi card". Nazis were mentioned within the context of helping to define socialism.

The government which is big enough to give you everything you want, is also big enough to take it away from you.

 

[John Deere]

I expected a lot more from the great Commonwealth of Kentucky. But different opinions make it a horse race I suppose....

JD

 

[G.T. Smith]

I don't know anything about political views or left wing/right wing groups, but I do have faith in the majority of people in this country that absolutely WILL NOT tolerate the direction we are heading. When the time comes(and it will), I think everyone will see what happens when God fearing, and law abiding folks are jerked around enough. The ball is already rolling. Did anyone see the crosshairs on the map showing the "battle ground" states on the morning news?
gordon

 

[DonD]

I would not label all "true liberals" as "all bad". In many cases they are altruistic, and only seek "what's best" for others. However, their altruism, in most instances, results in self-destruction, and/or the lack of measurable results. They think that as long as they care, and are endowed with funds from others, that this is all that counts. This is what's happened with all social programs launched by any level of government. The federal poverty programs have spent trillions, yet we have an ever higher number of those who demand those services. Social programs have never been successful, because they never resolve the root problem they were put in place to repair.

Most modern liberals also lack any fundamental understanding of economics. This is nothing new to the twenty-first century. The appalling lack of economic knowledge by politicians since Herbert Hoover is just the tip of the iceberg. They lack the simple understanding (or purposely ignore the fact) that government does not create wealth. Government only takes away wealth from those who have created it, and redistributes it to those who do not create wealth.

The acronymic olio of government programs created in the Franklin Roosevelt administration exacerbated a recession, and created the Great Depression. As an example, it was the deliberate meddling in the economic process that created the large number of bank failures in the 1930's. Roosevelt's programs kept unemployment percentages well into the teens, until the start of World War II.

The modern "true liberal" (progressive) believes in the predominance of the government, and a growing central government has become the problem.

The term "social liberal, fiscal conservative" is oxymoronic on its face. Social programs require wealth redistribution. And wealth redistribution is the antithesis of a free society.

No one played the "Nazi card". Nazis were mentioned within the context of helping to define socialism.

The government which is big enough to give you everything you want, is also big enough to take it away from you.

Very well written in my opinion, however, it is a message too many in our Congress don't want to hear. Don