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16 years ago @ Excellence In America - Navy SEAL Not Guilty! ... · 0 replies · +1 points
Thank God the system worked, but there is plenty of justification to be angry about putting these guys through all this in the first place.
16 years ago @ Excellence In America - Hyphenated American - ... · 0 replies · +1 points
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16 years ago @ Excellence In America - Immigration Reform, Th... · 0 replies · +1 points
I imagine as an adult you can appreciate how far we have come as a Nation since the days you were in Kindergarten. To me, I can't imagine something like your story happening to someone today, I'm not saying it couldn't... but we've come a long way. Don't you think?
Children are watching, that's why I want this debate to be strictly about immigration. People who try to inject "race" are only diverting attention away from the problems. Bringing race into the debate doesn't further anything & only results in name calling.
Jason
16 years ago @ Excellence In America - Is Progressivism Just ... · 0 replies · +1 points
Jason
16 years ago @ Big Government - Call to Arms: Join Me ... · 0 replies · +3 points
Who ever it was who invented the television... you sir (or madame) had no consideration for the consequences of your actions.
16 years ago @ Excellence In America - Is Progressivism Just ... · 0 replies · +1 points
Here's proof that the Nazis were just as socialist as the communists and just as socialist as the progressives: http://laiglesforum.com/2009/10/08/hayek-hitler-w...
16 years ago @ Excellence In America - Is Progressivism Just ... · 0 replies · +1 points
The government does have a role to play and I think that even those who eat, breath, & sleep laissez faire would acknowledge that. Governments role in the marketplace, it's "economic planning", is policy creation to make competition as effective & beneficial as possible.
The problem is when the planning becomes a substitute for competition... or policies designed to "level the playing field". This is the type of government intervention that leads to disaster in the long run and even in terms of immediate effects, these are counter-productive to economic growth.
Competition is not only the most efficient, but it is the only method by which the activities of hundred of millions of individuals "can be adjusted to each other without coercive or arbitrary intervention of authority." [F.A. Hayek. "Road to Serfdom"]
Jason Bradley
16 years ago @ Excellence In America - Is Progressivism Just ... · 2 replies · +1 points
2. "a society in which there are a great many wealthy people instead of just a few"
I think we live in that society.
3. "[society] in which that wealth tends to be earned, not inherited."
Why shouldn't an individual be able to take the wealth that she has accumulated over a lifetime, by her own labor, and direct it to whom she chooses to inherit it?
4. "a system of free market competition that is a reasonably fair one, and one more conducive to the success of many than just that of a few"
Central planning for the organization of resources & activities necessary to realize a distributive outcome or consciously constructed ideal would have to be consciously adverse & aim to substitute competition. This is essentially the "Collectivism" described in F.A. Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom".
Jason Bradley
16 years ago @ Excellence In America - Is Progressivism Just ... · 0 replies · +1 points
Progressivism respects private property rights so long as "the state" doesn't see, what it believes to be, a "better use" of the private individual's land & resources therein (higher tax revenue, a new shopping center for "economic development", etc.). Taking property for the convenience & in the interest of government (but of course under the headline "for the common good") is also a rejection of the legitimacy of private property. This attitude, that one may own property so long as its convenient for or in the best interest for the community/the state, is a progressive one expressed by Teddy Roosevelt.
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