tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503958.post331877765991203818..comments2023-03-25T09:12:38.039-05:00Comments on Bad Commands and Filenames: SQLFunkateerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17237309391300543602noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503958.post-77790390579312190912008-01-29T12:20:00.000-06:002008-01-29T12:20:00.000-06:00Is it our responsibility as Americans to delve int...Is it our responsibility as Americans to delve into politics? Should everyone be caught up on info from all fronts? All agendas? Pro-life? Pro-healthcare? Pro-Social Security? As voting Americans, should we be educated on who we even are supposed to vote for? The party's history? Voting records? Shoe size average?<BR/><BR/>Half the people don't care, the other half care too much. Meaning that "the caring" overly assert themselves and their opinions above the "less learned". This makes "the caring" feel more "responsible" as Americans, giving themselves the fuel needed to make the "less learned" feel like a pile of doodoo because they are too busy trying to work 2 or 3 jobs to bring home the bread for the kids while their deadbeat significant other is wasting their time wasting space.<BR/><BR/>I, on the other hand, just don't have the gumption to dive into a worldwide arguement in which there are no winners.<BR/><BR/>(This comment is in no way trying to say anything abusive or condemning to anyone that may know the Unstable Blogger... besides..he's unstable.)The Unabashed Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15524722189237777302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503958.post-9838161035119032682008-01-29T11:32:00.000-06:002008-01-29T11:32:00.000-06:00Oh blast, Blogger ate my last reply!Here's the Cli...Oh blast, Blogger ate my last reply!<BR/><BR/>Here's the Cliff Notes version:<BR/><BR/>1. Two coins of the same side, or one side of two coins, or whatever...I think we agree.<BR/><BR/>2. Modern pols focus wrongly on what government can do for people because it buys the Fool voting bloc. Free health care, free money, etc. <BR/><BR/>3. Kennedy seemed to be asking people to not focus on that...don't ask what govt can provide, ask how you can help your country.<BR/><BR/>4. I'm a 10th amendment nutter, so I'm all for a limited fedgov in the style of the original design.<BR/><BR/>5. C is for Constitution, and that's good enough for me.SQLFunkateerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17237309391300543602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503958.post-11397300024347185542008-01-29T11:11:00.000-06:002008-01-29T11:11:00.000-06:00**Also when I say "You may claim..." I am not spea...**Also when I say "You may claim..." I am not speaking to you directly but to the general public. (Do they read your blog much??)Percussivityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02567902722009628447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6503958.post-30261633469715082692008-01-29T11:09:00.000-06:002008-01-29T11:09:00.000-06:00Ok while I understand your analysis of Kennedy's q...Ok while I understand your analysis of Kennedy's quote and how it seems reversed by today's politicians... but let me suggest that the original quote was inherently flawed to begin with, not withstanding the patriotic aspect of serving the country. Not to put additional words into JFK's mouth but I interpret his words to mean "Ask not what your government can do for you but what you can do for your government."<BR/><BR/>Here is my problem with that sentiment. A Democratic Republic should serve its people and not the other way around. Now you may claim that free healthcare, medicaid, welfare, etc etc ARE sevices to the people, but I disagree VERY much with that claim. Government handouts create dependencies and THAT is not in service to the people but enslavement of the people. Once the master becomes dependent on the servant, he is no longer truly the master.<BR/><BR/>Government should provide protection and should create a structure that enables a citizen to succeed through hard work. When a government goes much further than that it begins the process of becoming a "nanny state"... which is what we have today. Yes we should in one sense serve the country in the same sense a master provides for a servant, but the government was designed to be for OUR benefit and not that WE should be for the government's benefit.Percussivityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02567902722009628447noreply@blogger.com