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- From: curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch 903 2F021 curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com 512-838-2806)
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- Subject: Re: If you dump Bush, dump Congress too, (at least.)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.010330.2656@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 01:03:30 GMT
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- stevec@orodruin.tivoli.com (steve the foolhardy) writes:
- >Curt Finch (curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com) writes:
-
- >>> The more money the federal government spends as a percent of GDP,
- >>> the more power they have and the more your rights will be usurped.
-
-
- If it's ok with you, let's just forget the stale old Clinton/Bush
- debate, the election is over.
-
-
- >it seems that they (repubs)
- >would be perfectly happy with setting the government up as the sole
- >arbiter of what an "acceptable" lifestyle is, and anyone who doesn't
- >meet these standards would forfeit any rights that they might have
- >had. in case you hadn't noticed, this is already happening, viz the
- >War on (some) Drugs.
-
-
- My contention is that if we could get a truly fiscally responsible
- government in office, (President and Congress,) then they wouldn't be
- able to afford to be "the sole arbiter of what an acceptable lifestyle
- is." They couldn't afford the luxury of usurping your rights.
-
- In other words, it is only through forcing the government into
- frugality that we can get them off our backs. The war on drugs is
- expensive for example. By electing a president who promises to
- increase taxes and spending, you are validating his right - and giving
- him the power, (the money,) - to expand that war.
-
-
- >"The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We
- >are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government
- >extend to such acts only as are injurious to others."
- > -Thomas Jefferson, "Notes on Virginia"
-
-
- Great quote from a man who believed in a small decentralized government
- and strongly advocated states rights. I think limiting the governments
- spending power is the strongest way to fufill his dreams of what a
- government should be. They haven't yet been fufilled, and we're moving
- farther away from Jefferson's ideas every day.
-
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- curt@aixwiz.austin.ibm.com (Curt L. Finch) | AIX NFS/NIS Field Quality
- My views are unrelated to those of IBM | Austin, TX
- - FICA isn't a retirement plan. Money's spent. It'll be gone when you need it.-
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