Comments on: Conservative or Liberal: Pick Your Poison

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:22:15 +0000

Nice article Mr. Baldwin.

What amazes me about this website is that generally the comment section is not full of hatred for one another due to disagreement.

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By: Terry R McDonald

Terry R McDonald — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:47:08 +0000

A pie in the sky treatise again pretending us all ignorant to antique meanings of terms. I had thought that recently enough the argument of conservative philosophy was between the Republican Party and Conservatives as much as between the "modern" liberals and the "modern" conservatives. Word games are fun in a closed intellectual social setting but do they have a place here?? I sincerely hope not!

By: Thruthefog

Thruthefog — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:35:58 +0000

Things to do!
1. States nulify ALL unconstitutional laws, mandates, directives, of course all those levying taxes, and keep the funds in state.
2. Continue the states sovereignty actions until all states have notified all parties of their sovereignty.
3. Proceed to implement the enforcement of all state laws to insure freedom to all citizens.

By: drawlr

drawlr — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:16:06 +0000

"… And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for [another] till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automotons of misery . . . . And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." – Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816, ME 15:39

By: drawlr

drawlr — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:15:16 +0000

"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." – Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39

By: drawlr

drawlr — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:15:16 +0000

By: will

will — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:16:09 +0000

Really good article. Puts what i believe into words far better than i could.

By: Tom Bolt

Tom Bolt — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:01:51 +0000

Excellent! Hit the nail on the head. I'm definitely a Freedomist!

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:01:36 +0000

"You think Obama has caused all of our problems?"
Straw man. I don't know anyone who claims Obama has caused all of our problems. The criticism is that he has made them much, much worse.

"By chance, to those who now criticize Obama’s enormous federal spending, did you criticize G.W. Bush for his 4 Trillion dollar debt increase, setting a federal spending record at that time?"
Yes.

The good news is that more people are paying attention now than ever before.