Republicans are supposedly against the government doing anything for the individual (welfare, SS, etc)?

Question

except when it means invading your country and overthrowing your government for you, can anyone explain these contradictory views, if republicans support individiuals doing things for themselves, why did we need to install a democracy in iraq? wouldn't it have been better for the iraqis to do it themselves?

I can see by some of the replies that I must be pretty close to the mark with this question

Answer 1

Your check got cut off didn't it. Please get that ugly avatar away from me!

Answer 2

We don't "need" to install a democracy in Iraq. We are trying to give the Iraqis the ability to create their own democracy which promotes freedoms that we Americans have taken for granted for quite some time. We are doing this not out of "need" but because we know the value of a democratic system and we are trying to influence other countries in the region to adopt similar changes.

Even conservatives, which do not include all Republicans, acknowledge the need for government. However, one BIG difference between us and liberals is the fact of freedom. The larger the government, the larger the government intrusion in our lives and the fewer freedoms anyone can enjoy. We conservatives are also against giving someone rewards for not doing anything (welfare). We are against the government taking our money and squandering our future on their projects (social security). We are also against the government indoctrinating our children with values that we do not believe in (public school system).

Your two arguments do not logically go together. In the first you are taking freedoms and money (in the form of taxes) away from people. In the second, you (well not a lib but many of our fine, outstanding, brave fighting men and women) are providing new freedoms and rays of hope for others.

Finally, the Iraqis ARE developing their own government system. We are simply protecting them from those seeking to destroy freedom and prosperity.

Answer 3

Look at Sweden. Cradle to grave nanny state. Highest taxes in the world. I have no problem with a helping hand. Charity begins at home. We now have our third and fourth generations of welfare families. Mom didn't have to work so why should I. I'm glad the Republicans made Clinton sign Welfare reform. He likes to take credit for it but he vetoed it two or three times. As a Police Officer on the Calif., Az., Mexico borders, I would turn over ILLEGAL aliens to the Border Patrol everyday. Sometimes the same one twice in the same day. Several times a week I would take into custody pregnant women from South of the border. They were always hours away from delivering. If they could have their baby this side of the border that gave them status and immediate welfare. Almost everyone of them slipped across our borders illegally "because of the free money" America gives you money for babies". That is what I heard continually. Here is what welfare has done for us. Illegal immigration cost the U.S. taxpayer over 24 billion a year in welfare benefits for non-citizens. Billions more than they contribute in taxes. Please don't tell me they pick our fruit. I was in a county that was agriculture and very little harvesting is done by hand. Lettuce pickers that stood on a machine that picked it and moved the heads up a conveyor belt where it was wrapped and boxed. They were making 12 dollars an hour in the 1980's and using emergency rooms as their medical provider and still do. Do your history on S.S. It was a Democrate Congress every single time that "borrowed" S.S. funds. There is no S.S. trust fund and if you think there is tell us all where it is and how much interest is it getting. Costa Rica I believe or Argentina has privatized their S.S. and their retired citizens make about four dollars to every one our folks on S.S. do. As far as Iraq. You are spouting the left wing media bias. The Kurds, to counter the blather that you espouse here, made a T.V. commerical thanking America for their freedom. Almost all the providences in Iraq are under contol of functioning Iraq local governments. Why is it you Liberals hate Bush so much that you want to see your own county fail?

Answer 4

Wow, you are all over the place. Let me see. On one hand we have Americans. They live in the land of liberty, free speech, security, courts to protect their rights, have opportunity, receive free education, and Republicans want them to take advantage of the opportunities and become successful.

On the other hand we have people with no say, no civil rights, can be arrested and imprisoned or tortured and killed on a whim, under a tyrant that actually had some parents' sons executed and then made their mothers and fathers pay for the bullet. Who put people through a scrap shredder while still alive and used nerve gas on his own people.

Gee, I wonder why the Iraqi citizens didn't handle it themselves?

With all due respect that is the dumbest comparison I have ever heard.

I am trying to understand what causes such muddled thinking. All I can imagine is that you really don't know how good you have it in America. Not everyone can speak out, speak up or dare even speak. Here is a little experiment for you. Go out in the middle of your town and scream out as loudly as you can that the president is an idiot.
Record your results.

Now go to Iran. Stand in the middle of the town and scream out in their language that the president is an idiot.
Record your results.

Now go to North Korea and do the same thing in their language.
Record your results. Then get back to us.

Answer 5

A true Republican is against a big federal government. The fed should be only in the business of protecting our borders. All other stuff (Social Security, Medicare, Welfare, and even public education) is not to be handled by the federal government. That doesn't mean you can't have entitlement programs, it just means that they are the individual state's responsibility. States rights are the issue. If you don't believe me, call Rush Limbaugh he will tell you. He talks about it every day.

Answer 6

Consider the majority of republican administrations from 1970 to 2000. Now consider that the percentage of the federal budget in this same time span for individual benefits has doubled from roughly 30% to almost 60%. You still think republicans are "against the government doing anything for the individual?"

The Iraqis will do it themselves - once the demented, psycho radicals are cut down to size. Perhaps you feel the small villages in Darfur should be defending themselves against the Arab militiamen? The republicans are not afraid to get involved when necessary, rather than just look on and do nothing.

Answer 7

i think of a extra acceptable question could be if a extra acceptable practise is a income to society, why is it so high priced? certainty is, various college professors i understand do no longer make various funds, however the chancellors make as much as 3 CEO's of substantial companies. i do no longer oppose economic help to those that opt to circulate to college. I do oppose, in spite of the undeniable fact that, the theory that a school practise is a prerequisite for a extra acceptable existence, and without it you're lazy or stupid. some human beings, even the neatest, do no longer belong in a school room even at a youthful age.

Answer 8

Absurd, I am not against welfare - but abuse of the system - having 10 kids when you can't afford 1 just to collect more money & get more food stamps. I am against lazy people sitting around collecting a free check while I work 70-80 hours a week to foot the bill for them. If you need it then by all means collect the benefits that's what it's there for. But if you can work then go out there & work and stop looking for hand-outs! It's not all about installing a Democracy in Iraq; it's about fighting for freedom when others can't. If liberals are so caring & giving then why can't they see that? Answer that for me!

Answer 9

Doing anything for those on welfare? We are not against helping the needy, what we are against is those taking advantage of the system of welfare, which runs rampant! People have more babies to get more money from the government, when they are fully capable of working!
Republicans do support those who try and get on their feet, and get a job. Ever heard of "Welfare to Work" program? President Bush created that plan, where folks are trained, and educated to learn how to fill out job applications, 8 of them a day, and go job hunting. These people spend 8 hours a day doing this, and even learn how to write a resume, using tax paid for computer's, and also how to give a good interview by perspective employer's. In fact, employers show up personally to help individuals on the program! I know, I was one of them once.
I am a grateful Republican, thanks America, when I needed you!
By the way, I am still paying you back. I pay $50 a month, for what I borrowed from you, and I still pay my taxes.

Answer 10

We are also against big government slaughtering and torturing their people. We have major problems with gassing whole villages and creating mass graves all over the country. Putting a live person into a brush shredder is not my idea of a social program, or killing and raping its citizens at will. We Republicans are funny that way. Calls us wacky.

Answer 11

We arent AGAINST welfare programs, but think that the government shouldnt have to support someone indefinetly. If someone is going through a rough patch, sure give them a little help; but if someone is too lazy to go out to get a job, hell no.

"A starving man asks a Republican and a Democrat for a meal; the Democrat gives him a fish, while the Republican gives him a fishing pole so he can catch the fish for himself for the rest of his life"