" When the best rulers achieve their purpose, their subjects claim the achievement as their own."
---Lao Tze
This is statement I think outlines the ultimate difference between liberal and conservative principles. Under conservatism, strong leaders are invisible and your success is your own. With a liberal system, no one gets credit for anything except the government...
Ultimately this is why liberalism will fail. It enables no one, and ultimately no one has any incentive to get ahead. There is no competition between products, since all prices are regulated by the government, and there is no incentive to create newer and better ways of doing things, since ultimately that belongs to the government as well.
I guess what I described is more socialism than liberalism, but liberals want to take us in the communal direction. I am pretty sure that people like Hillary and Obama are not stupid people, but the road that they want to take us down sure is, and the American voting masses are being swept right up into it. Their line of thinking has failed every time that it has been tried. They have not learned though, and they must just think that with the right funding it will work.
The real problem is, in order to get the funds that they need to fund their programs they have to take more and more of your tax money to do it. If you take all my money to provide me with a service, ultimately you bankrupt both of us. That is why socialism will never work. You need money to make the programs work, and eventually if there is no one making money or producing goods and services so money changes hands, everything breaks down. Everyone has become a ward of the state and rather than accomplish anything they just sit around and well... I am not sure what they would be doing.
Under a conservative small government no one is a victim of a government strong hand. The only thing limiting anyone is their own drive and ability. The government stays out of the way and facilitates limited activities. As a result I am free to create and compete as I please. The only thing that limits my success is my own drive, or lack of it. Truly amazing... Better yet, because the government has stayed out of my way, the accomplishments are mine. They can not claim them; every.
Why is it that so many people, especially the young, are being duped into thinking BHO and HRC are capable of leading this country? What has either of them ever done? How is the change that they want for us good for us, and how do they plan on implementing that change? If I fall off the roof and break my leg that is change, but it is not good change.
I fear that we are heading towards socialism, which is disturbing. The greatest force on Earth, for good, is becoming France. A bunch of spineless relativist monkey bangers. Perhaps this Democracy is on the way out... Perhaps though, some one some where will get it, and be able to save some of their friends...
So... next time someone asks you the role of government in the United State, say that they need to stay out of our way, and allow us to claim our accomplishments...
Prayers,
Pisio
Ultimately this is why liberalism will fail. It enables no one, and ultimately no one has any incentive to get ahead. There is no competition between products, since all prices are regulated by the government, and there is no incentive to create newer and better ways of doing things, since ultimately that belongs to the government as well.
I guess what I described is more socialism than liberalism, but liberals want to take us in the communal direction. I am pretty sure that people like Hillary and Obama are not stupid people, but the road that they want to take us down sure is, and the American voting masses are being swept right up into it. Their line of thinking has failed every time that it has been tried. They have not learned though, and they must just think that with the right funding it will work.
The real problem is, in order to get the funds that they need to fund their programs they have to take more and more of your tax money to do it. If you take all my money to provide me with a service, ultimately you bankrupt both of us. That is why socialism will never work. You need money to make the programs work, and eventually if there is no one making money or producing goods and services so money changes hands, everything breaks down. Everyone has become a ward of the state and rather than accomplish anything they just sit around and well... I am not sure what they would be doing.
Under a conservative small government no one is a victim of a government strong hand. The only thing limiting anyone is their own drive and ability. The government stays out of the way and facilitates limited activities. As a result I am free to create and compete as I please. The only thing that limits my success is my own drive, or lack of it. Truly amazing... Better yet, because the government has stayed out of my way, the accomplishments are mine. They can not claim them; every.
Why is it that so many people, especially the young, are being duped into thinking BHO and HRC are capable of leading this country? What has either of them ever done? How is the change that they want for us good for us, and how do they plan on implementing that change? If I fall off the roof and break my leg that is change, but it is not good change.
I fear that we are heading towards socialism, which is disturbing. The greatest force on Earth, for good, is becoming France. A bunch of spineless relativist monkey bangers. Perhaps this Democracy is on the way out... Perhaps though, some one some where will get it, and be able to save some of their friends...
So... next time someone asks you the role of government in the United State, say that they need to stay out of our way, and allow us to claim our accomplishments...
Prayers,
Pisio
1 comment:
"If you take all my money to provide me with a service, ultimately you bankrupt both of us. That is why socialism will never work"
Wow! What a quotable quote!:) I should add "to provide me with a service I didn't ask for, in first place". I don't live in the U.S., but in my country (Uruguay) the socialist government is carrying us all to that ultimate bankrupcy. Luck to us that in two (endless) years we can vote them out of the government. Hope at that point the damage won't be irreparable.
The only point I disagree with you is about calling "liberals" those who are indeed socialists. Maybe they call themselves "liberals" but they are just the opposite.
Probably that is rather a semantic issue, because the terms "conservative" and "liberals" are not opposites indeed. For instance, if you have had a liberal government for many years and you want this remain unchanged, thus you are liberal because of the government philosofy and are conservative because you want to maintain the "statu quo".
Whatever, just wanted to say: Great Post.
Regards
Anthony
P.S. If you ask me, I think the best man for the White House is Ron Paul (looking at the US scene from abroad and far away). It's a pity he's out of the race.
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