Why do Repubs claim to hate big gov. yet seek to legislate morality?

Question

They gripe on and on about "personal responsibility" like it's a religion, yet, in the REAL WORLD, people are not always responsible. They don't want tax money to go to feed and cloth children who did not choose their irresponsible parents, yet they want to ban abortion!
I assume hundreds of thousands of new children each year will just have to pick themselves up by the bootstraps and get a damn job, those lazy freeloaders!

Answer 1

The flaw in you argument is the Constitution. The Government is not responsible to feed and clothe your (or my) children. The government has one purpose and one purpose only and that is to protect the right that you already have. We don't have the right to eat that is something that you are responsibility to provide for your self. The less government we have sticking its nose in our lives the more prosperous we are. Socialism is evil and has never worked.

Answer 2

The government has always banned murder of innocent people. That is a natural legitimate function of Government. Banning murder of innocents is a proper moral judgment. Most people would say Government has a legitimate business in doing so. Some people (like me) simply see abortion as murder. I am entitled to my belief. I do not have to see the opposite point of view. I do not have to believe you have the right to commit murder of innocent children (or any other children). Murder is wrong I am comfortable in this value judgment. Just because I want smaller government doesn't mean I want the Government to do nothing at all. Bastiat postulated "government is needed to protect the citizen from bullies."

It's a natural fact. if you pay for something, you get more of it. You pay for women to have illegitimate children you will have more illegitimate children. If it becomes economically unpopular to make children out of wedlock. There will be less such children made. Children born to a 2 parent family have a huge advantage according to most socio-economic statistics. Republicans want children with a huge economic and social benefit. Morality pays many benefits. We do not want children to be poor. With less children on the poverty list, there will be more money available to those who are.

Answer 3

Well im not a republican, im not registered with a party, but I consider myself a conservative.
I certainly am not one seeking to ban abortion. Although there are certainly circumstances about abortion I dont like.

The idea isnt to get hundreds of thousands of children to qo pick themselves up and get a job.

The idea to me is to quit enabling people to 'continue' to be irresponsible parents. And the current welfare system does just that. It discourages them from picking themselves up by the bootsraps and it certainly doesnt discourage them from having more kids...

I would be fine with feeding and clothing the children...... and while we are at it put their irresponsible parents in jail and give the kids to someone who will not neglect them.

Maybe I see things in a harsh way. But thats how I see it. At least I agree it isnt the children's fault.

Answer 4

LOL.. I love that last sentence! It's funny, the Republican Party of today is sooo different than it was in my parent's generation. Personally, I'm a Libertarian... the by-product of a Republican father and Democrat mother? I think I could have been a Republican though, if the party was still the hallmark of Goldwater's brand of conservatism (sm. gov't). On the other hand, if Goldwater was alive today, I wonder if he wouldn't walk away from the current party in disgust and declare himself a Libertarian!
This link on Goldwater sums it up for me:
http://www.liberalslikechrist.org/about/goldwater.html

Answer 5

Lets take a page from history. During WW I the moral leaders of this country sought way to solve the ills of society by banning alcohol. For 13 years we had prohibition this would solve all the problems of society. Good example of the attempt to legislate morality.

Today same thing to regulate moral behavior by laws. What ever became of parents and authority.

Answer 6

Yes in the real world alot of people are not responsible.

Which is why it drives me crazy that people want to raise tax money to bail them out of their troubles.

Can't feed the kids: don't have them
Cant buy clothes for kids: don't have them

Very few of the unwanted pregnancies are from sexual assaults, most are from 2 people making a conscious choice.
Which goes back to my previous statement of why its up to us to bail them out.

Start: making better life choices and you wont be faced with such tough problems.

Answer 7

well thats who republicans are. republicans are economically liberal and socially conservative. democrats are economically conservative and socially liberal. therefore republicans DONT WANT gov't to interfere with their money but DO WANT gov't to interfere (somewhat) in personal matters (like abortion). Democrats DO WANT gov't to interfere with their money and DONT WANT gov't to interfere in personal matters.

personally, i think democrats and republicans suck. I'm a libertarian - i believe in a small gov't in BOTH economic and personal matters. i believe gov't is here to protect us, thats about it. When you talk about taxing so we can feed cloth children - thats a classic democrat thinking - you want us all to be equal. Ultimately, you're a communist. If there were no republicans in the U.S. and democrats ruled this country, this country would fail for this reason. I feel bad for the "cloth children" buddy, but you should know by now the life isnt fair. Lets not hinder the strong people to accomodate the weak, because that ultimately makes society weaker.

Answer 8

They are trying to reach the same level of nonsense as "liberals" who legislate away other’s personal liberties. I think they have both achieved their goal of unadulterated absurdity. It could just be an elaborate hoax just to see if anyone actually espouses the little trite campaign jingles and actually begins to vote libertarian…

Answer 9

The Republican Party has been hijacked by the religious right and almost completely abandoned traditional conservative values. I think your link to abortion is rather flimsy, I am sure the children that are not going to exist becuase of the legality of abortion would rather be dead than hungry or cold. I sure know I would rather be dead than poor.

Answer 10

I don't know. I think the whole thing with 'small gov' is just clever way to say broken gov. If Democrat create gov that functions well that's bad for Republicans because that's BIG gov. Republicans want small, useless, broken gov. Or they call it the small gov.