2007-10-11 05:27:44 · 21 answers · asked by junglejoe 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Doesn't that sounds like the Soviet Union?
2007-10-11 05:28:02 · update #1
Dems seem bent on "doing everything for you" and "taking everything from you."
2007-10-11 05:32:11 · update #2
Dems seem bent on taking away your freedom of speech too.
2007-10-11 05:34:17 · update #3
who told you that ?
you have been misinformed.
2007-10-11 05:30:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 4⤋
Democrat and Republican parties are so broken its a waste of breath trying to defend either of them anymore.
Both have steadily milked freedom away from the American people along with the peoples incomes...both have reduced the services that those tax dollars once provided.
If you sit down and think about what is free you will see that it is nothing more than an illusion these days.
2007-10-11 12:42:45 · answer #2 · answered by tina w 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Freedom cannot exist unless there is equality.
The Founding Fathers knew this when they wrote "ALL men are created EQUAL" at the beginning of the Declaration of Independence. The whole foundation of the US is based on equality.
Unless you're saying that the Founding Fathers were wrong?
2007-10-11 12:40:55 · answer #3 · answered by Cardinal Fang 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
"Liberte, Fraternite, Egalite" was the policy of the French Revolutionary government during the Reign of Terror, too.
Freedom is compatible with equality before the law. Other government-imposed "equalities" tend to decrease freedom.
2007-10-11 12:41:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
People are not equal, they are "created equal". What they do after that determines their plight. Some people inherently have more to offer a society than others, this is just common sense. Dems look to wealth redistribution to punish those that are successful and provide for those that are not, this just takes the air right out of a society and is called Socialism.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are CREATED EQUAL, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Where in this great phrase does it say, life, liberty and the pursuit of others money to support me?
2007-10-11 12:36:13 · answer #5 · answered by El Guapo 4 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Freedom is something every American likes to talk about, but most actually do not want. In this way it is like Democracy.
Freedom, Equality and Democracy are typically mutually exclusive, unless everyone can actually vote on issues and always votes for equality and freedom...I'll bet you don't actually want freedom...I know Republicans don't want freedom, just some specific types of freedom. Democrats don't want equality, just some types of equality. Get it?
2007-10-11 12:35:08 · answer #6 · answered by yakrafter 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
GW Bush has done more than other President in U.S. history to take away people's freedoms!
Short of FDR when all of the Japanese Americans were thrown in detention camps during WWII!
That time was usually referred to as one of the darkest human rights violations committed against U.S. citizens ever.
Bush decided that this happening was a jumping off point!
2007-10-11 12:42:45 · answer #7 · answered by Kelly B 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Freedom without equality means that some people are more free than others.
2007-10-11 12:34:43 · answer #8 · answered by ck4829 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Dems care about individual peoples' freedom (i.e., freedom to marry whomever you love, freedom to determine if and when you will have children.)
Repubs care about corporations' freedom (i.e., freedom to pay starvation wages and offer no health insurance, freedom to outsource all the jobs to Third World countries, freedom to buy politicians for millions of dollars, freedom to lie to consumers.)
Dems care about equality between everybody, regardless of their race, gender, religion, national origin, class, sexual orientation, etc.
Repubs care about equality between wealthy white Christian conservative males, period.
2007-10-11 12:38:00 · answer #9 · answered by catrionn 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Probably because you can't gurantee everyone's freedom until they're equal in the eyes of the law. Just a thought.
2007-10-11 12:33:01 · answer #10 · answered by Gravedigger 3 · 4⤊ 3⤋
The more Leftist Dem's care only about equality in terms of doling out rewards, and not in regards to the work it took to earn those rewards.
The Marxist saying, "From each as he can, to each as he needs" is chillingly similar to Hollywood having Spock say, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
Basically, nowhere in the above is there a relationship between work and reward. If John works and earns $10 while Paul sits on his butt, they each get $5.
It's total garbage and America will not put up with it. You watch as the real debates occur after the nominations are set, and Hillary starts to spout her Marxist/authoritarian crap.
2007-10-11 12:35:46 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 6⤋