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mussorgsky -> RE: students suspended over breathmints (10/9/2012 5:48:59 PM)
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Subspaceseven: "Gee what party has more restrictions on out lives ?? Which party has put forth bills restricting our rights to our own bodies, what party started all the illegal wiretaps??? What party whats to put their beliefs before yours????"
Actually, both of them. Really. When it comes to anti-Republican issues of abortion and marriage, simply ask why the government should be involved in those things in the first place. When it comes to the anti-Democrat issues of the economy and jobs, simply ask why the government should be involved in those things in the first place. Government involvement only creates more problems and never actually solves the original problem. So, yes, Republicans may have implemented wiretap programs and violated a whole host of civil liberties, but did the Democrats stop that once they were in power? Republicans got us into two wars in the Middle East and Democrats screamed for peace... until they got the power. We've gone over three years without a federal budget (over 1200days at last count) and that includes the period when the Democrats had majority control of both halves of Congress and the White House.
The sooner Americans realize that the parties are not polar opposites and are instead best friends is when we'll start to fix this country. It's all a game for the television cameras. Think of it like pro wrestling: yes, people get hurt and it takes skill to get there, but it's all scripted. Both parties want to grab as much power as possible without looking like it. That's why you get idiots like Paul Ryan standing up against the bailouts on the House floor saying that it's the worst thing ever... and he's still going to vote in favor of it. All the parties and candidates put their beliefs before ours, some just play the popularity game a little better.
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville
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