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In article <1992Nov5.135747.10873@news.cs.indiana.edu> "AJ Violette" <violett@nectarine.ucs.indiana.edu> writes:
>
>Yeah, whatever.  I am a liberal in the real sense: I believe in freedom
>and limited government.  Democrats and "liberals" today have perverted what
>it means to be truely compassionate.  
>A "liberal" is called compassionate because he favors welfare, social
> security, and every other fucking government social program.
>  He/She would rather
>see a society dependent on handouts, then people going out in the world,
>doing something productive, and making it on there own.  
>I try not to hate anyone, just morons who confuse compassion with slavery.
>Being compassionate means wanting others to suceed, not wanting to bring
>others down.  I want to see a society were people prosper on hard work 
>and don't have a compassionate government to tell them what to do.
>
> Andrew V.

well i suppose a liberal might be able to say that all of these "handouts"
are like bandages over a populice that gets victimized by the weathy few,
who run this mega-corporate economy with no regard for anything but making
a buck.  they see the Republican conservative elite as well-heeled rich
folks who are not about to give up the way they made their millions - even
if the means were immoral.  that liberal might go on to say that IF these
government programs were allowed to run without sabotage by heavy lobbyists
and white-collar crime permissiveness, that some day they wouldnt be
necessary and what a wonderful world it would be, o-bla-dee.

indeed, there are some who think the US government is strong enough to
defeat the amoral juggernaut of Big Business.

then there are some who feel that being President of the U.S. is nothing
more than being Chief Towelboy in a major-league Whorehouse.

not all of a set has the same characteristic, but the notion that a
minimal government, aside from being cute, would end all the troubles
is naive.  industrial giants unregulated would be a huge disaster -
they would dump all their shit on all of us and we'd have to clean it
up.  this already happens bigtime.  but the US government may not be
strong enough to cope with Them.

oh yes, how nice it would be if you could just sit on your back porch
with a miniscule government, minimal set of laws, free to do anything.

its population, man.  that's the way we get into all these problems.
it aint the Democrats.  it aint the Republicans.

- nate  :-)
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