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

[Paul Rumelhart]

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 <http://www.moscowcares.com/>
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "There's room at the top they are telling you still.
> But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
> 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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