Comments on: Limits on Democratic Government

By: Mister Guy

Mister Guy — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:08:07 +0000

Well, considering that, according to the Census Bureau, the implementation of the Great Society programs in the mid to late 1960s caused the amount of poverty to be roughly cut in half…I’d say that they did a pretty good job.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I....._to_05.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.....by_Age.png

You can even see these charts being used over at the Right-wing Hoover Institution of all places. Nothing seems to have had as big an impact on poverty since the 1960s.

By: Chanman

Chanman — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:28:49 +0000

jd,

Wasn’t LBJ’s Great Society – brought to us by your beloved big government – supposed to effect that “dramatic reduction in poverty” that you mention? A lot of good that did, eh?

By: JD Ryan

JD Ryan — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:23:34 +0000

the basic needs of individuals who are down on their luck or otherwise in a bad way – I think those needs are best met by private charities.

And the Lord literally created a woman from a rib, too. On what evidence do you base your conclusion? The dramatic reduction in poverty we haven’t seen?

By: N. P. West

N. P. West — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:07:38 +0000

The fatal flaw in the argument for economic collectivization is that despite wishful thinking it just doesn’t work and never has. To think that taking private property for the betterment of the community will make that community more egalitarian is a fallacy that is proved by Soviet Communism. And while I am all in favor of relying on the precendent of law as set forth by voters, elected officials, and judges not all voters, elected officials and judges have right reason and a will defend the permanent things, such as private property. Just look at Act 60.