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Milton Friedman said Richard Nixon was the most socialist president in his lifetime.
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:0 So shiny and clean :0
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If the right is might, then might is right. Lol, kidding.
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Well, obviously the right wing is much stronger than the left, so it stands to reason that the right has might. Now if the right is might, than might must also be right, see? (it was a pun...I'm using to different "right"s.)
It's hard to explicitly say how conservative I am, like I said it would depend on an issue I'm be questioned with. Also I don't see how someone could call nixon a socialist he was a great president who most notably reestablished trade with China and helped make us more prosperous.
Communist China??? Also, under his administration, the number of regulations in the federal register had doubled...with Reagan, they halved.
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This is not to say Nixon himself was a socialist, it's just his administration and his Congress were. He himself even said, "We are all Keynesians now". Nixon was no Reagan.
Well atleast he's not as bad as Obama but I guess I can't defend Nixon on those accusations.
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Well Abatael I'm no Fascist and I didn't realise that the name of my country was one of fascism I simply chose it based on the states having more control sort of like the anti-federalist party in the late 1700's and 1800's.
No, definitely not as bad as Maobama...thousands of more regulations have been created (i.e Dodd-Frank and Obamacare) under this administration as well as the greatest Keynesian stimulus the nation has ever seen. Milton Friedman would change his perspective if he had lived with Obama.
Notice how my full title is "confederate states"...
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Then I don't see where your getting a basis on these false accusations of Fascism.
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Ergh...he means "authoritarian". All of us in Libertatem are more or less economically right wing, but there is a difference between social conservatism and social libertarianism (or being a moderate I guess). That's what he's asking.
well those who are far right aren't Facists we're just extreamly conservative that follow what they say to the letter almost.
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Yes, but only in the sense of authoritarianism vs libertarianism.
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Well I'm not a facist I'm just a social and fiscal conservative on about every issue.
Do you believe the individual person is greatest (superior to the state) of that the state is superior to the individual?
Sorry, the of should be "or".
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I believe the individual person is as great as they can be within the means of the law that the state lays before us unless he wishes to go into public office and change the law to benefit the individual more. It was individuals that made this country strong, that fought for our freedom, fought for the freedom of others, and came together when the country and their world needed them the most. If we let the state trample over us then the rights of the individual that are layed down in the constitution will be destroyed.
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American
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@ISA, spoken like a true American.
Just a habit sense nobody had corrected me on.
that would be "since" not sense.
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That's a tough one when you consider Radical's out there. The State should represent the Majority but at the same time be mindful of the Minority and balance compromise. Tough as hell all considering.
In basic Parliamentary Procedure we're required to respect the rights of the minority but proceed with what the majority represents.
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Nor am I Abatael
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@Abatael...no accusations, just lauding the truth of ISA and his committment to freedom (i.e. why America was founded).
Parliamentary Procedure is the rules we have to follow in legislative and business parliament. We had to study it for weeks in my drafting class.
Perhaps Abatael you should wait till you know someone before you label them. Considering the events of the past week you of all people here should know this.
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The best kind of government is one that comes close to being no government at all.
It's hard to explain the Parliamentary Procedure but you can always Google it.
I have known RedBadge for a while now, and I can personally say, he is not a liberal.
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Well Liberosia we need to have a government or else we'd likely get anarchy but I'm a Tea Party activist and believe less federal government messing with us and giving more power to the states and the individual and establishing term limits so people, like Joe Biden, who have been in congress for 40 years and contributing to the destruction of this country can get out and get some real representatives in.
Based on what we have not talked nor do I run my mouth on here. You sir have not seen 10 sentence's from me yet you have already made your conclusion. Do you wonder why you piss people off so fast?
Hmmm...I said "comes close". Perhaps government should only consume about 5% of the GDP in spending (down from 24% today).
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Board Member, I request respect for the fascist ex-Board Member.
I don't neccisarily like the GDP I believe in going back to the gold-standard but if thats out the window we should begin annual audits on the Federal Reserve.
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Ummm...the GDP stands for the "Gross Domestic Product", basically the total size of the economy. How do you not believe in the GDP? There's always been a GDP...
Because I prefer the gold-standard where we can depend on the value of the dollar always being good. With GDP the inflation and Federal Reserve alter the dollars value to much and never allow it to be worth it's true purpose.
So you never heard of bipartisan, is it against the rules in your mind to allow such thought's? ether Republican or Democrat, Left or right no middle ground!
Well I'm not an economic expert really I'm just basing that off what I've read and learned in my Civics class although I will start looking more into economics.
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@ISA...there has always been a GDP or GNP. We had one when we were back on the gold standard (in the good old days).
@RedBadge and Abatael...let's just make government so small that it can't prefer anyone over anyone else and leave us to our own will and free choice.
Well Heavy Jawjacking is a sign of extremist so we will just call you an Ass for the time being.
Well if we had a conservative dominant government I wouln't mind neccisarily...and lets throw in a capitalist system with it.
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I leave to take a long shower and already the message board is near-unintelligible. :/
I'm not even use to seeing a message board so filled with comments all the time. Back in the Federal Islands we got maybe 3 comments every day or two if we were lucky.
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Order in the court.
As you all know, election day is tomorrow. As some of you know, we some are too young to vote. As others of you know...just get to the goshdarn polling place and mark Romney.
Don't forget to vote for your local candidates too as well as the representatives and if there is a senate race where you live. Harry Reid already announced he will not work with a Romney administration so we need to get a republican/conservative congress to have a real change, and we must maintain our hold in the house to see real growth and prosperity.
Ya would of got there for early voting but worked 12 hour shifts all last week. 120 hours in 2 weeks but ill be standing tall around noon tomorrow.
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The symbol for "Most Armed" is a baseball bat. Lol
I was 8th most armed back in the Federal Islands. I guess that doesn't qualify me for a baseball bat.
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I bet my citizens must be great at sports. Particularly contact sports.
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I think the role of government is to keep its populace safe and well. It should protect its people with a well trained military as to me the military is the most important thing, needed to secure the safety of its borders, its people, its laws, its culture from others who wish to impede on those.
As for other things, the government should be minimal at best, plain basic.
As well as from what I've learned from Civics class, government was only established to maintain order and protect our rights. The constitutional explicitly states the federal government,state government, and local government powers and the seperation of powers. It seems though many people in Washington are forgetting their true purpose.
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And I believe general welfare should be kept basic, something you can't live off on like many cradle to the grave countries.
Any aid given to the individual should be minimal or lousy and the government should encourage the individual to grow themselves.
Social Security isn't a bad idea in my opinion but I advocate for the Chilean model of personal savings accounts.
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Not to be rude or anything but you are on a computer or smart phone to be able to log on to nationstates so why not Google it?
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To explain it though would end up being an entire article though.
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Well from what I understood from Newt Gingrich back in the primaries he explained like this. Whenever you get your check every month or two weeks you take some of that money and put it in a savings account. Now the only thing you can do is deposite money in that account while it draws interest. Once you hit retirement though you'll have a healthy retirement fund that you've been paying into, it's yours, and you won't have to worry about the government getting rid of the program.
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They also have been using it in Galveston Texas since the 1920's.
I like that savings account idea, I've thought of it before.
Would make a whole lot of sense instead of what we have now.
Happy election day for all of my fellow Americans.
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