Reply #29: We're still moving in the direction FDR pushed us in.

[txaslftist]

I don't understand why you are complaining, then. FDR was all for getting out into the world and "leading" it with guns and bombs. What do you think our embargo of Japan was, if not an aggressive act of war designed to goad them into kicking off the real thing? If FDR can tell a farmer that he can't have a vegetable garden, I don't see why you are complaining when the government sells our industry off to the Chinese in a deliberate series of wrecking ball trade agreements.

FDR was a big believer in the wisdom and power of government to make things better for everyone. He set in motion an increase in government power that would have made Alexander Hamilton proud. This despite the fact that he had two very good examples of nations where that kind of power had been turned to evil purposes and turned against citizens.

So if you like FDR, you ought to be a fan of leviathan (how's that for an Ayn Rand reference?); since he was it's champion. If you don't like the things that a gigantic government requires, like a surrender of your freedom and property rights, you shouldn't ought to be a big fan of gigantic government at all.

That's the great fallacy of this concept. "I have great faith in our country and our people..."

Really? Do you really?

Because it seems like if you did, you'd have faith in our ability to take care of ourselves without a gigantic bureacracy in DC telling us how to live and taxing us at 40% of our incomes.

Here's a secret for you. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The solution for little guys like us (I assume you are a little guy like me) is take as much power from our "leaders"(masters, bosses, chiefs, whatever term you like) as we possibly can. This seems a healthier solution than just praying that we'll get new or better masters.