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rainy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 01:35 PM Original message |
If government shouldn't regulate businesses it shouldn't regulate people's lives. |
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get the red out (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
1. Women should have reproductive rights.... |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
2. I'm all for less individual regulation |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
3. But women aren't people, so uteri should be completely regulated. |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
4. I'd be happy if they all were pro-choice and pro-gay marriage. No, they believe keeping |
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Trillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
5. Facetious? Hardly. |
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Dank Nugs (157 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
6. Governments that govern least, govern best. -- Thomas Jefferson |
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jdlh8894 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 02:02 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Nail-Meet Hammer! n/t |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 02:12 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. The 'individual liberty' we had before SS meant the #1 cause of death |
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Better Today (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 02:26 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Yep, we need government to govern for the overall benefit and |
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jdlh8894 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 02:29 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Few bones to pick |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 02:38 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. In order to "live off the land" you must first have some land to live off. |
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jdlh8894 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 02:57 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. If you check those stats |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:06 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. So, it wasn't really a problem? |
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jdlh8894 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:27 PM Response to Reply #15 |
23. Not what I am saying, |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:33 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. And those without families? |
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ieoeja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:35 PM Response to Reply #23 |
29. "No way to transport goods to the cities"?!? |
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jdlh8894 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:38 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Links Please? n/t |
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jdlh8894 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:39 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. Links Please? n/t |
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ieoeja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 04:07 PM Response to Reply #32 |
38. Links! |
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rainy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 04:33 PM Response to Reply #23 |
39. In a money system that can NOT function at 100% employment how can you |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:10 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. And starving citizens is OK if they are urbanites? |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:13 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Well, after all, they were probably... |
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ieoeja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:29 PM Response to Reply #19 |
25. You're probably right. But rural people think White city folk are evil too. |
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Dank Nugs (157 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:32 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. That's because they have no basis for comparison |
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ieoeja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:38 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. I grew up on a family farm. Have lived in Chicago the second half of my life. |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 02:35 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. You may have joined the wrong site. Your views seem to fit more with the Libertarians. |
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Dank Nugs (157 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:19 PM Response to Reply #11 |
20. I agree with the Democratic Party on a lot of social issues |
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rainy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 04:38 PM Response to Reply #20 |
40. Again, if there are not enough jobs for all the people how do you expect them |
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Hansel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 06:33 PM Response to Reply #20 |
42. Good luck with that. No one is self-reliant. |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:35 PM Response to Reply #11 |
28. I am for govt regulations of business myself, but I think a line should be drawn somewhere |
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Dank Nugs (157 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:51 PM Response to Reply #28 |
37. The Drug War, for example. |
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catzies (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:48 PM Response to Reply #11 |
36. ...and judging by username & sig line, "A libertarian is really a Republican who smokes pot." |
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tech9413 (294 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:06 PM Response to Reply #6 |
14. Unfortunately, Jefferson lived in a different world |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:08 PM Response to Reply #6 |
16. Without governement regulation you'd never know what you're putting |
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Dank Nugs (157 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:22 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. Sometimes, government intervention is necessary |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:21 PM Response to Reply #6 |
21. The New Deal is a good thing here at DU. |
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Dank Nugs (157 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:29 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. I never argued that it was not. |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:41 PM Response to Reply #24 |
34. The New Deal regulated business and financial institutions. |
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libodem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
18. Agreed |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
33. It shouldn't regulate our lives because it has no such authority other than strictly expressed |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 03:42 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. +1000 nt |
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justabob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 05:28 PM Response to Reply #33 |
41. thank you for that |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-21-10 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
43. Except that true libertarians believe all of that |
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