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tikilal · #14 (**permalink**) August 30th, 2007, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Roddoss72

Could you imagine how the USA would be if the Government spent the two trillion it wastes on defense spending and propping up dodgy regimes in the middle east on say universal medical cover, medical research, education, disaster relief (Hurricane Katrina), Infrastructure, etc.....

Better yet imagine if the Government spent only what it needed to and didn’t take the rest from the American people.

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Originally Posted by Slipdigit

You throw out all these good platitudes, but provide little to no information on how much is spent to begin with, in comparison to other nations etc. Your ideas show a great misunderstanding on the division of governmental powers within the United States. Please read the often overlooked 10th Amendment of the United States Constitution. 10th Amendment We have people here that think the President and Congress are supposed to feed, clothe, buy homes, cars and color TVs for them, apparently you do too.

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Originally Posted by Slipdigit

Don't even get me started on universal medical care. It is not the government's (in reality, my neighbors) responsibility to take care me, it is my job.

You have no idea what has been done in New Orleans or what it even looked like before the flood. The people there had ample opportunity to leave and they chose not to. Homeowners who have decide to live on flood plains and coastal areas for years and years have enjoyed a free ride and expected us who live inland to help rebuild them when the inevitable floods come.

As far as New Orleans is concerned, the way the levees are governed is sheer lunacy. There are about 6-8 boards that control different sections of the levees and they rule them like their little fiefdoms. The Corps of engineers provide the expertise, but it is up to the politically controlled boards to maintain the levees and guess what party runs the show down there and makes appointments to the boards? Those levee failed because they were not maintain as the should have been and it was the responsibility of locally appointed people to see that it was done.

Before you get all bent out of shape, I have close relatives who live(d) down there, some losing their homes. They knew the risks, but took them anyway. The inner city New Orleans people that are making the biggest fuss are third and fourth generation government entitlement types (welfare recipients) who have made no effort to change the squallor they live in and when a large number of them left, they carried their crime with them, just ask Houston TX. Drive across Lake Pontchartrain and into Mississippi, where the damage was as bad or worse, those people are used to taking care of themselves and they have. They aren't griping about the government not coming to wipe their butts for them and they also weren't looting stores.

I would guess that if we want advice from you as to how to run our country, we'll come and ask you and since you don't seem to embrace the idea of one nation policing another, I don't see it happening.

As usual,

I love how people can in the same breath complain about how horrible the government handles things and then ask them to handle more. If you think that other people know what is best for you and want them to take care of you check yourself into an assisted living center. The Constitution was set up trying to balance the need for Central order and the need to protect the liberties and rights of the people. But here is the best part I get to vote for the people that make these decisions. When I don’t like what they are doing they hear about it from me. And I tell them in no uncertain terms what I think and want. I then in reply get a letter thanking me for my concern and then try to explain why they do what they do. Then I mention this little know and used item called “RECALL”. Man I love my government.

The basic question that every person in the world needs to ask themselves is this: Do I want to be responsible for myself? Well do you?