tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post8502519592715085784..comments2024-03-13T21:26:03.011-07:00Comments on Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher: ConservatismDarrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-32046450876807865832010-05-23T17:03:09.369-07:002010-05-23T17:03:09.369-07:00I gotta say I am surprised Washington Puke actuall...I gotta say I am surprised <em>Washington Puke </em>actually published something in support of the free market. <br /><br />The second paragraph put’s it down nicely<br /><br /><em>This is not the culture war of the 1990s. It is not a fight over guns, gays or abortion. Those old battles have been eclipsed by a new struggle between two competing visions of the country's future. In one, America will continue to be an exceptional nation organized around the principles of free enterprise -- limited government, a reliance on entrepreneurship and rewards determined by market forces. In the other, America will move toward European-style statism grounded in expanding bureaucracies, a managed economy and large-scale income redistribution. These visions are not reconcilable. We must choose. </em><br /><br />The statists want to control people not by legitimate ways (e.g. elections) but though unaccountable ways (e.g. executive orders, bureaucratic regulations, judges finding things in legal documents or the Constitution that no one else can find). And they don’t want people to choose. They want to take power.<br /><br />A great example of the arrorgance of the statists was when B Hussein Obama said recently "...I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money. ..."<br /><br />I think Jefferson would be suicidal with grief when he has seen what has become of the republic he helped found.<br /><br />And you are right Darren...the full article was excellent.Mike Thiachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02929567856363413549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-5685824348205518772010-05-23T13:13:26.906-07:002010-05-23T13:13:26.906-07:00While Jefferson was a renaissance man of sorts, fa...While Jefferson was a renaissance man of sorts, farmer/academician/statesman, he was a strong proponent of entrepreneurship and the development of industries and technologies. He saw that, left unfettered (as leftists like to say), government would quell both ventures like a cancerous tumor grows and kills its host. I teach manufacturing technology at Bakersfield College. It gives me an interesting perspective, being a public employee who provides training in support of private industry. The CTA is the one of the many tumors sucking the life out California, transforming it from an industrial powerhouse into and industrial-grade poor house.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-48786656534737970782010-05-22T22:47:13.633-07:002010-05-22T22:47:13.633-07:00Do you disagree with anything he said, or are you ...Do you disagree with anything he said, or are you just trying to find something, anything, to throw against a good, solid conservative thought?Darrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10348701.post-33639299756085257762010-05-22T20:24:26.704-07:002010-05-22T20:24:26.704-07:00And he envisioned an agrarian country governed by ...And he envisioned an agrarian country governed by yeoman farmers. How ya' think that'd be workin' out for us. Probably not fighting WWI or II or saving the world or inventing the internet.mmazenkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06602797515366983639noreply@blogger.com