Clipmarks
merriefollowshare
8-26-2009 3:56 AM
112 views
merrie says:
The point here is that activist liberals like FDR and Obama mean business. They'll make fundamental change if you are foolish enough to work with them. All the while, they tell you they're implementing reform in the name of the very thing they're destroying: private enterprise.

That's right. FDR couched his statist programs in capitalist terms, too. Just as Obama tells us he is expanding patient and doctor choice under an Obamacare package that would eventually eliminate such choices, FDR told America he was pushing through his statist agenda in order to save capitalism from itself.

[...] Since that time, dutiful liberal historians have perpetuated the myth that FDR's New Deal wasn't statist at its core, but capitalist, because statism was necessary to save capitalism. Go figure.

Times change, but liberalism doesn't.

But Obama and his Democratic super majorities in Congress have done the nation a great favor by showing their true colors and what they will do . . .
1 Comment   | Add a Comment
8-26-2009 3:58 AM
merrie
. . . with unchecked power. And the American people have responded with a grass-roots, nonviolent revolt. Polls now show that the majority of voters in every state are conservative.

The one thing that could undo this public excitement is for moderate Republicans to help these statist Democrats get their feet in the door on socialized health care. There can be no compromise driven by semantic deception, such as co-ops in place of the “public option.” The only reforms Republicans should accede to are free market ones. Period. All the rest would lead, through incrementalism and momentum, to full-blown government-run health care.

Besides, you don’t compromise with those who are not honest abo...
Login to Comment.  Not a member yet? Sign up
Embed This Clip In Your Site...

New from the makers of Clipmarks:  Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!

OK