[Vision2020] Yes, I'm proud to be a liberal

[Sunil]

You're creating a false equivalence. Just because a state is large doesn't mean it thinks it has the right to spy on it's citizens.

As for policing the world, if we are doing any 'policing,' it's to impose our will and serve the interests of those who benefit from our foreign policy.

Sunil
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 07:57:00 -0700
From: paul.rumelhart at gmail.com
To: thansen at moscow.com
CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Yes, I'm proud to be a liberal

I was thinking more generally of welfare (medicaid, medicare, social security, unemployment, etc).  They are extremely useful programs when needed, they are often abused, and they require a large federal government to sustain.  I wouldn't be so down on the idea of a large state if it didn't think that it had the right to spy on it's citizens and assassinate people without due process and if it didn't think it had to police the world.


Paul


On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

Paul Rumelhart argues:
"Being a statist is what I have a problem with.  Basically making the state too powerful and people too dependent upon it."

Do you mean state-expanded Medicaid?   Public schools?  Increased minimum wage?
Details please.

Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)http://www.MoscowCares.com
  Tom HansenMoscow, Idaho

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If you want to be like the folks on the hill."
- John Lennon
  
On Jul 31, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Paul Rumelhart <paul.rumelhart at gmail.com> wrote:


Being a statist is what I have a problem with.  Basically making the state too powerful and people too dependent upon it.


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