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Einsteinium, on 15 March 2013 - 09:57 PM, said:
Our government as it is now would be almost unrecognizable to the founding fathers.
You are absolutely right danielost, the founders did not trust government. They saw government as an evil, but necessary evil, and that its power should be limited as much as reasonably possible. Ever since then the government has steadily been increasing its power and size. The republicans pretend to be conservatives, but a close look at what they actually do when they are in power will show you that they are anything but (at least the modern republican party). If any party today understands the founders and what they intended it would have to be the libertarian party.
And no our government is not working. For the last few years they have not even been able to do something as simple as pass an actual budget! How can you consider that working in any way?
You are absolutely right danielost, the founders did not trust government. They saw government as an evil, but necessary evil, and that its power should be limited as much as reasonably possible. Ever since then the government has steadily been increasing its power and size. The republicans pretend to be conservatives, but a close look at what they actually do when they are in power will show you that they are anything but (at least the modern republican party). If any party today understands the founders and what they intended it would have to be the libertarian party.
And no our government is not working. For the last few years they have not even been able to do something as simple as pass an actual budget! How can you consider that working in any way?
Einsteinium, on 15 March 2013 - 09:57 PM, said:
Our government as it is now would be almost unrecognizable to the founding fathers.
You are absolutely right danielost, the founders did not trust government. They saw government as an evil, but necessary evil, and that its power should be limited as much as reasonably possible. Ever since then the government has steadily been increasing its power and size. The republicans pretend to be conservatives, but a close look at what they actually do when they are in power will show you that they are anything but (at least the modern republican party). If any party today understands the founders and what they intended it would have to be the libertarian party.
And no our government is not working. For the last few years they have not even been able to do something as simple as pass an actual budget! How can you consider that working in any way?
You are absolutely right danielost, the founders did not trust government. They saw government as an evil, but necessary evil, and that its power should be limited as much as reasonably possible. Ever since then the government has steadily been increasing its power and size. The republicans pretend to be conservatives, but a close look at what they actually do when they are in power will show you that they are anything but (at least the modern republican party). If any party today understands the founders and what they intended it would have to be the libertarian party.
And no our government is not working. For the last few years they have not even been able to do something as simple as pass an actual budget! How can you consider that working in any way?
I couldn't agree more.
We needed LIMITED government, not more. The government needs to stay the heck out of everyone's business.
When the government fears the people there is liberty; when the people fear the government there is tyranny. -- Thomas Jefferson
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. -- Thomas Jefferson
