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What makes America great?
True or false:
The institutions that truly make America great – the families, the churches, and the businesses – are not administered by appointed lackeys, nor found in federal budgets. They come from free peoples allowed to flourish relatively unencumbered by overbearing governments.
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Simplistic to the point of banality.
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It's starting to drive me crazy how much each side, and one side in particular, dismisses the legitimacy of any position taken by the other. I don't know that it's never been worse, but it's as bad as I can remember.
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 Originally Posted by cm husker
Simplistic to the point of banality.
I'll mark that down as a "false."
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Originally Posted by OmaHusker
I'll mark that down as a "false."
Whatever makes it easier for you.
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Would you agree that the Manson family, the Westboro Church, and Enron don't make our country great?
Would you agree that public education, police and fire departments, and a vibrant, well-structured and predictable legal system run by the government do help make the country great?
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Originally Posted by cm husker
Would you agree that the Manson family, the Westboro Church, and Enron don't make our country great?
Would you agree that public education, police and fire departments, and a vibrant, well-structured and predictable legal system run by the government do help make the country great?
It's a common mistake to interpret the disdain conservatives have for government as a conservative desire for no government. I agree the things you list are beneficial to society. But above all else, liberty, and the extent to which a people are free is inversely proportional to the size of government.
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Originally Posted by OmaHusker
But above all else, liberty, and the extent to which a people are free is inversely proportional to the size of government.
Are you talking economic or social freedom? And I'm not sure that's entirely true, especially from an economic standpoint.
We'd also probalby need to define "size of government" (e.g. bureaucrats per citizen, expenditure per person, expenditure as a % of gdp, etc).
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What makes America great?
Ironically the centralized, highly appointed, top down structure of the oversize federal government is disliked by many while that same structure is preferred by some religious organizations and their followers.
Sister Pat Farrell, president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, said that Catholics should be able to search for answers about faith without fear.
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Originally Posted by Huskerwirejay
Ironically the centralized, highly appointed, top down structure of the oversize federal government is disliked by many while that same structure is preferred by some religious organizations and their followers.
And this leads the question...
So?
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Originally Posted by Huskerwirejay
Ironically the centralized, highly appointed, top down structure of the oversize federal government is disliked by many while that same structure is preferred by some religious organizations and their followers.
Word...and then said religious folks who are anti government try and legislate their version of morality instead of allowing others their freedom and liberty....
Yep...uber irony
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Except the irony is lost when one considers that most Catholics are democrats, who ostensibly are ok with top down federal government organization, and most fundamentalists, whose religion is rarely top-down, are for smaller, less intrusive (by their definition, or more accurately, selection) government.
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Thank goodness for some of you that there's a separation of church and state so you can follow in line with the bloated beast that is the federal government. No way people should be left to their own responsibilities.
Liberty is for losers.
"The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." -- (Thomas Jefferson)
“Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you.” -- (Benjamin Franklin)
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Originally Posted by cm husker
dismisses the legitimacy of any position taken by the other. I don't know that it's never been worse, but it's as bad as I can remember.
Originally Posted by cm husker
Whatever makes it easier for you.
Irony? Nah
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. - Barry Switzer
Originally Posted by The Big Red Lebowski
That a way CC! Stick with your boy to the bitter end.
Originally Posted by RedPhoenix
Why yes, I do have a PHD in Hillbilly.
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Originally Posted by CornfieldCounty
Irony? Nah
Actually, there's no irony there at all, because he was characterizing my statement that the situation is far more complicated as being "true or false" as false. So you are correct.
Well done.
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yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so, I'll just change myself!
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
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Originally Posted by RedPhoenix
Porn.
So much this.
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False.
What makes America great is that we have electorate that can influence the direction of the government at every level -- district, city, county, state and national elections.
We're a government by the people, for the people. It all counts.
More people should pay attention to who's on their school boards and natural resource district boards than who's marrying who.
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