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Ah, politics (reprise)
Aug. 29th, 2008 09:52 amSo, Sen. Obama gave his big acceptance speech last night. Which I missed as I was playing in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
forvrin's Pools RPG instead (and a much better us of my time, I might add).
Sen. Obama's speech includes this gem:
"Ours is a promise that says government cannot solve all our problems, but what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves . . ."
That 'which we cannot do for ourselves' is, apparently, everything as he then goes on about how his government will provide: education, jobs, science, technology, energy (no foreign oil use in ten years?!), health care, pensions, personal responsibility (?!), reducing unwanted pregnancies, and it will "defeat the threats of the 21st century: terrorism and nuclear proliferation; poverty and genocide; climate change and disease."
So, which problems is your government not going to solve for us, Sen. Obama? What will the citizens of the US be allowed to do for themselves? Should not it be most of the things you are shouldering as the Government Man's Burden? This is the land of the free, let us be free to find our own solutions at the private and local level. Get the Federal Government out of our way and see what we can do.
forvrin's Pools RPG instead (and a much better us of my time, I might add).Sen. Obama's speech includes this gem:
"Ours is a promise that says government cannot solve all our problems, but what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves . . ."
That 'which we cannot do for ourselves' is, apparently, everything as he then goes on about how his government will provide: education, jobs, science, technology, energy (no foreign oil use in ten years?!), health care, pensions, personal responsibility (?!), reducing unwanted pregnancies, and it will "defeat the threats of the 21st century: terrorism and nuclear proliferation; poverty and genocide; climate change and disease."
So, which problems is your government not going to solve for us, Sen. Obama? What will the citizens of the US be allowed to do for themselves? Should not it be most of the things you are shouldering as the Government Man's Burden? This is the land of the free, let us be free to find our own solutions at the private and local level. Get the Federal Government out of our way and see what we can do.