> Larry wrote: > Really? I thought that the present crisis was created by those who strongly > advocated getting rid of Social Security, or at the very least moving it > towards a privatized basis
Here's what I call The Conservative Lie. (it's a lie to themselves) You've got your libertarian purists like Ron Paul and The Scout. We three could sit in a bar and philosophically agree 100%. Where we'd differ is on actually doing what we agreed on because what that would mean from a policy perspective is everyone-for-themselves. In my opinion the people in this country are unable and unwilling to live with the risk and uncertainty. That's where we come to The Conservative Lie. "Conservatives" pretend that it would work, that people would want these policies. If this last crisis proved anything it's that total economic freedom = economic crisis. And, very simply, the country isn't willing to put up with an economic crisis. If you follow the equation above, that also means the country, therefore, doesn't want economic total economic freedom. So this explains why Robert preaches economic freedom until a crisis and then whines for the government to save him. In other words, modern conservative policy is based on a lie. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:292540 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
