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What is the opposition to Obama’s reforms?

By kalka

A colleague living in Europe recently asked me why there are such “vehement” oppositions from some to Obama’s reforms. My colleague then went on to give me a lecture about the responsibility of government to provide for its citizens, the responsibility of those who are fortunate to those who are less fortunate. After listening to his version of the liberal worldview, I told him yes he was right and just in being concerned about those who as he stated cannot provide for themselves and their families. I believe too that we all should have that concern, and I believe most people do. The question is what is the best way to go about it?

I believe helping people to provide as much for themselves as they can, not excessive government handouts and interference will create a healthy and sound population. A healthy sense of self and esteem comes from personal achievement and productivity, which in turn will create a people who are most able to contribute to the greater societal good. Government caretaking and excessive charity sometimes end up maintaining the very thing that they are attempting to eliminate, i.e. inequalities, social classes. There is no room for a people being coddled and enabled to move up anywhere–there will always be a class of caretakers and class being cared for.

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Yaron
December 20th, 2009 at 12:45 pm

Indeed I hate those … “it’s the responsibility of government to provide for its citizens”, “the responsibility of the fortunate to take care of the less fortunate” blah blah blah… arguments.

The problem with people who make them is that they are incapable of looking one step ahead at what happens when liberal (socialist/communist really) solutions are then deployed.

Does Europe have people with inadequate health care? Yes!
Does Europe have poverty? Yes!
Does Europe have high unemployment? Yes!

And on top of that, to achieve their “great” non-solutions they’ve created a much diminished standard of living for themselves, and would all be speaking Russian due to inadequate military spending if it weren’t for U.S. protection.

William Palumbo
December 21st, 2009 at 10:05 am

By a long lure of planned grass a society of bisons
may be decoyed to captivity in the Valley of Security.

In moments of uneasiness its bulls may be soothed by
the voices of the herders saying: “You are free at any
time to go back to the plains. Remember the grass
there? It was poor and many of you were hungry.”

There is no going back, because, first, these gentle
herders are rough with the few who try to start a
stampede, and secondly, tame grass is sweet poison.
From the eating of it the way of life on the plains is
soon forgotten. To many whose stomachs were never
so full before, even the memory of it is harrowing. If
one asks, “But will the herders always be good to us?”
another answers, “Nature was sometimes cruel.”

-Ex America, by Garet Garrett (1938?)