A Slanted View of Political Philosophies: Or is it?

August 14, 2010

Political Philosophies
Left (Liberal)
Liberals claim to embrace freedom of choice in personal matters, but support significant government control of the economy so that they can become independently wealthy and important. They support a government-funded safety net to “help the disadvantaged,” which they quickly plunder. Liberals advocate strict regulation of business, which they like [...]

Step One Discussion

September 2, 2009

Step One: [We] Admitted we were powerless over politics – mostly with regard, but not limited to, stressing over daily news media accounts and opinion.
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We twelve-steppers have resolved to simply get out of the game. Oh, we’ll be good citizens and refrain from causing trouble, mostly, but don’t ask us to agree with big government nanny-state [...]

It Depends on Your Perspective

August 28, 2009

This test says I’m a libertarian. But I can see how some people are liberals, others are conservatives, etc.
I don’t hate them. I am curious about someone’s thinking when they want to punish the wealthy with high taxes. Don’t they understand what will happen after that?
When taxes go up, everything goes up. Then, the lower [...]