Comments on: Should We Be “Like 1900″? Probably Not.

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By: Anthony Tantillo

Anthony Tantillo — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 06:16:00 +0000

Luckily, if a US History class doesn’t teach about the Articles of Confederation, they know very little about American History and probably shouldn’t teach or talk about it. :D

By: Anthony Tantillo

Anthony Tantillo — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 06:15:00 +0000

I agree with you. I’m just upset that the author doesn’t even bother to look up Ron Paul or take his writing seriously in the slightest of amounts.

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By: John Hensley

John Hensley — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:30:00 +0000

Surprisingly enough, there are things you don’t learn by taking one US history class or one US political science class. Targeted research is useful if you want to directly address the subject at hand, instead of regurgitating abstract talking points like some people do.

By: Knative07

Knative07 — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:24:00 +0000

Also, Cuba does really well with natural disasters, and that’s because of government intervention.

By: Knative07

Knative07 — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:23:00 +0000

Just prerusing the wikipedia article on the massive disasters that have struck the US, the civic organizations DID not respond well to the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, which killed thousands of people in Florida.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:36:00 +0000

By delegating rights to the government, citizens are absolved of the responsibilities associated with those rights. That creates accountability, a feature that has been underused in American government lately…

By: Yrro Simyarin

Yrro Simyarin — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:21:00 +0000

There is an interesting question of philosophy that comes out of that last point – are we abdicating responsibility for those common concerns to government, or simply paying someone to do full time actions which remain the responsibility of the entire citizenry?

By: Yrro Simyarin

Yrro Simyarin — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:49:00 +0000

Of course, the federal government created by those same people bears no resemblance to the one we have today. Federal power then extended only to international and military affairs, and to inter-state issues. It’s not that the Federal should be subordinate to the state in its areas of influence, it’s that those areas of influence have grown to include… well, everything.

By: LS

LS — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:52:00 +0000

Problem being, the Articles of Confederation were such a complete and utter disaster that the same people who wrote them (in several cases) got together just a couple years later and replaced them with something that WOULD work. IOW, we’ve been there, done that, trashed the t-shirt.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:23:00 +0000

There were taxes in 1900; disposable income has increased since then. You have more money now, after taxes, then before.

The real flaw, now that I see the issue again, is that we have already taken action to provide for disaster relief. One of the points of government is to take a common concern (road maintenance, planning for and executing disaster recovery) and make it the responsibility of a specific individual to maintain that concern.

By: Anthony Tantillo

Anthony Tantillo — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:22:00 +0000

Actually, it’s not “hard to understand what Rep. Paul means by his call for more control by the States” if you have ever taken a US History or US Political science class.

What Ron Paul has a hard on for is the Articles of Confederation. And before you go “RAH RAH RAH THE SOUTH IS RACIST” that has nothing to do with the Civil War.

Right now their are precedents of how governments. Federal -> State -> Local. Ron Paul would like it to be State -> Local -> Federal, with the Fed being at the bottom of the totem pole. Pretty common thought process for American Libertarians.

But glad that you wasted what I assume an entire hour writing this piece of garbage.

By: Yrro Simyarin

Yrro Simyarin — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:08:00 +0000

Why don’t Democrats just voluntary make a charitable donation to Uncle Sam instead of voting to raise taxes?

Because once we make something the purview of government, we are spending our money on taxes to receive that service. This significantly reduces both the available funds and attention to alternative solutions to the same problem.

If I have $100 to spend, I might just spend $25 on disaster relief. But if I’ve already spent $50 of that on a government whose duties (we’ve decided) included disaster relief, I’m going to feel much less like spending more.