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**UMATURLIN** · 11-12-2005, 06:14 PM

Neocons like to call their enemies liberals as if it was a bad thing. Lets take a look at what liberals have done for the country and what conservatives have done and then someone tell me what anyone can be proud to be a conservative.

Liberals:

-Ended segregation
-Won for women and African-Americans the right to vote
-Created Social Security, Medicare, the Voting Rights Act and the Clean Water Act.

What did conservatives do? They opposed every single one of those things. I think there should be a national Liberal day where everyone takes a moment to remember what Liberals have achieved despite being fought at every juncture by the conservatives. If it wasn't for liberals, we'd all be living in the stone age like Iran or Afghanistan for crying out loud.

You fail to see the other side of the coin. Liberals have raised taxes to levels of insanity, and they have created all those stupid "consumer protection" laws designed to beat down any business that makes a product which a moron could use to hurt himself. Liberals worship price controls, nationalization, redistribution of wealth, and other impractical economic crusades. On economic issues, liberals are utopian socialist crackpots.

The fundamental principle of economic liberalism is that "businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity." If that is not an inversion of reality, I don't know what is.

11-12-2005, 06:14 PM	#7
UMATURLIN Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 446 Senior Member	Neocons like to call their enemies liberals as if it was a bad thing. Lets take a look at what liberals have done for the country and what conservatives have done and then someone tell me what anyone can be proud to be a conservative. Liberals: -Ended segregation -Won for women and African-Americans the right to vote -Created Social Security, Medicare, the Voting Rights Act and the Clean Water Act. What did conservatives do? They opposed every single one of those things. I think there should be a national Liberal day where everyone takes a moment to remember what Liberals have achieved despite being fought at every juncture by the conservatives. If it wasn't for liberals, we'd all be living in the stone age like Iran or Afghanistan for crying out loud. You fail to see the other side of the coin. Liberals have raised taxes to levels of insanity, and they have created all those stupid "consumer protection" laws designed to beat down any business that makes a product which a moron could use to hurt himself. Liberals worship price controls, nationalization, redistribution of wealth, and other impractical economic crusades. On economic issues, liberals are utopian socialist crackpots. The fundamental principle of economic liberalism is that "businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity." If that is not an inversion of reality, I don't know what is.
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