It’s time to quell excessive partisanship in politics
read more recent story comments Reader comments| bob searcy Thursday, July 19, 2012: 8:38 am More from bob searcy  | you guys all freak me out. no govt regulation of business and industry ( think bank deregulation ) , and a holy book for a constitution. i think you just described afghanistan. a turkish govt official recently complimented americas seperation of church and state. he said if his govt proclaimed anything that could be construed as secular , they would have hordes of frothing , largely uneducated people protesting in the streets with pitchforks. ron i used to think prolife too till i grew up a bit and realized that it was ignorant to push my idea of morality onto other people. lastly i agree with the author. the voting process is a living drag. we have ironclad ways of proving ones identity online and thats how voting should be done. there would be no time constraints and we could do a little research on issues while we sit and split a ticket. both parties are about laughable right now. obama seems obsessed with gay acceptance and the repubs are determined to drive abortion into the back alleys where women are sure to die from botched practices. neither party is doing anything about the rapid decline of middle class wages and living standards. now buy a limestone sidewalk from me fore i starve to death.. |
| ronschoolcraft Thursday, July 19, 2012: 11:37 am More from ronschoolcraft | So, Bob, if I'm pushing my morality onto others by being against abortion, which is murder, then let's not push any morality at all. Why stop at abortion? Why not allow women to kill their babies up to age six months, or a year, or 10 years? After all, at that point we know more about whether they will be a contributor to society or just an obese video gamer. Why don't we just euthanize people once they reach the age of 70, since they're not as productive anymore and we don't want to waste resources keeping them alive? Why do we even call killing another person murder? It is nothing more than survival of the fittest -- the grown up, enlightened idea behind the evolutionary hoax. Your "enlightened" position is logically absurd. |
| ronschoolcraft Thursday, July 19, 2012: 11:39 am More from ronschoolcraft |
I agree wholeheartedly, but I don't think we can survive another four years of Obama. |
| Danny Stewart Thursday, July 19, 2012: 1:18 pm More from Danny Stewart | Nobody, You contradict yourself by saying you want smaller government, and yet, you are a supporter of Obamacare. |
| booger Thursday, July 19, 2012: 2:34 pm More from booger | You win! Have a great day! |
| jdigger Thursday, July 19, 2012: 3:48 pm More from jdigger | two words ( Term limits ) |
| nobodyimportant Thursday, July 19, 2012: 11:14 pm More from nobodyimportant | Danny, it is no contridiction. We may differ on what to spend money. Bigger defense, with bigger big business contracts is one way to spend money. Somehow, that isn't called bigger government. Providing health care is another. It just depends where you think it is best to spend money. Taking care of your own or chasing bad guys abroad. In the name of "defense", we have played the world's policeman. Look what it got us in Iraq and Afghanistan. Soon, we'll do the same in Syria. Its patriotic to flex American military might. It's big government to at least make an attempt to do something about a failed health care system that is producing poor results at outrageous costs. |
| Danny Stewart Friday, July 20, 2012: 8:56 am More from Danny Stewart | Ron Sorry but I got ya beat. I got a negative 7. |
| ronschoolcraft Friday, July 20, 2012: 9:02 am More from ronschoolcraft |
Here is a big part of our problem. The fact that you see spending on defense and spending on Obama care as equal began the question," Have you ever even read the constitution?" One of the specifically enumerated powers of the federal government is to provide for the national defense. Spending on defense is, by definition, constitutional. Spending on healthcare is not. It's not that I don't want any government as has been suggested. I want constitutional government. That document was written to protect us from despotism. |
| ronschoolcraft Friday, July 20, 2012: 9:12 am More from ronschoolcraft | That's supposed to say,"begs the question". Auto correct got me. |
| Danny Stewart Friday, July 20, 2012: 9:13 am More from Danny Stewart | Nobody, It is a contradiction. You're trying to compare apples to oranges. First, defense was written into the Constitution, health care wasn't. Second, the 2nd Amendment does not require everyone to buy a gun. Third, spending money in the defense of this country is only 20% of the budget and has no bearing on the deficit Fourth, Obamacare requires everyone to buy insurance. Not saying people shouldn't have it, , just that the fed should not be allowed to require it. Fifth, we're not paying for everyone to have a gun. Sixth, we're not paying outrageous new taxes for defense. Lastly, defense doesn't come with massive new regulations on everyone. |
| jimenicholls2 Friday, July 20, 2012: 12:39 pm More from jimenicholls2 | Obama/Romney...more accurately referred to as "Obamney"...two puppets controlled by the same puppet master...both of them can boast that Goldman Sachs is their biggest donor. Romney was pro-abortion and pro-gun control, his people help draft obama care...now he's not...hmmm. Is he really the "lesser of two evils"? To me he looks like the same wolf with a different sheeps clothes. |
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