Is more government the answer to a peaceful/unified America?

Question

(1) Do you see more government regulation in the private business sector as a blessing or a curse?

(2) Would more government regulation in one's personal life, such as diet, smoking, sexual activities & education bring on a more "structured" problem free society?

(3) Are your "personal" rights more important to you than your societal "obligations" set forth for you by our elected officials. If so, why???

Answer 1

let us go back to our founding fathers they recognized that government was a necessary evil

this evil was necessary for what the only thing that it is meant to be is to protect from all enemies forgien and abroad

their job is not benevolence or any thing else

those lib's don't read their history books

wait they rewrote them

Answer 2

1) Curse

2) No, it wouldn't.  It would limit the freedoms and rights of the people.  It's their life, they live the way they want it to be lived.  Whether it's slowly killing themselves or living a nice life with family and friends.  

3) Elected officials suck, my rights, my life, my decisions.  It's not anyone's job to "take care" of me because I'm apparently unable to take care of myself.

A lifestyle out of an Orwellian nightmare is no way a person should live.

Answer 3

Ha Ha!  I like the previous answer, the libs don't read history books, they rewrite them.  That's why our country is so screwed up, our children are not learning their own history.

1) curse

2)no

3)We are standing on the precipice, and are about to lose our freedoms with Barack Obama in the White House.  We are rushing like the lemmings to destruction.

Answer 4

(1) Seeing as how private business does NOT police itself - no matter how many times Rush Limbaugh et al repeats that it does, then I have to anser "Yes I do".

(2) I've not heard anyone seriously propose this.  Other than (see above) some private businesses and insurance companies.  To whom are you referring specifically?

(3) Expand on this just a little bit please.

Answer 5

On balance, no.  On some specifics, yes.

1) We need proper OVERSIGHT of business--that does not mean more regulation--it means proper policing to insure unethical businesses are reined in.  A good reason to vote Democrat: the GOP simply quacks "free market" when we see things like poisonous toys being sold to our children.

2)No. Which is another very good reason to vote Democrat. It's the GOP that is calling for forcing people to buy health insurance, for taking control of women's personal health decisions, for

forcing schools to indoctrinate students with religious doctrines like creationism.

3) You're d**n right my rights are more important than so-called "societal obligations.   A third reason to bote Democrat. Read the Declaration of Independence. ""To protect these rights, governments are instituted among the people." That is the only purpose of government. We are NOT obligated to support the government or submit to a "Decider." We have absolutely no obligation to submit to re searches, military drafts, or any of the rest of the GOP agenda of dictatorship.

Answer 6

Wow, I imagine virtually all republicans feel pretty much the same on these issues, so I guess my questions would be

"why did you write and pass the Patriot act?"

"why did you write and pass the FISA bill?"

and lastly

"WHY THE **** DIDN'T YOU GUYS NOMINATE PAUL, THE ONLY CANDIDATE STILL STANDING UP FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES!?"

Answer 7

1.  I see it as a curse. If the government were a business, it would be out of business.  Caveat Emptor I say.

2.  It would be more structured..like a prison. But not what I would want as a way of life.

3. Personal rights all the way.

And to Rupert..beware what you say about lemmings. Someone will flag you as being abusive. They cry like little school kids on this site.