Wkmac....we got it, you make valid arguments exposing the hypocracy of the current 2 party juggernauts. But it is my belief not one philosophical entity can stand alone in the world we live in today with such an enormous populas. Not even the self centered, Individualism philosophy can enter a phone booth as Clark Kent and exit as Superman.
JMHO, But I don't buy arguing that the welfare of society is best served when every individual seeks his or her own advantage without reguard to any overreaching safety-net, or scheme of goodness or justice. When individuals are left to their own devices, their system may posess self adjusting quality that ensures their maximum satisfaction, but at what expense of society are you willing to degrade and endanger. Having said that, it has become obvisously painful that turning to our Big brother Gov't as public watchdog sentinals has become a futile effort as well. As much promise as the prophet Obama wants change, is it becoming apparent they're not really in control, just puppets on a string coerced by the great corperation...Let's also be fair, this Adm did not start with a clean slate, there comes a responsibility to cleaning up the mess your predessor starts, even if it includes spending on "emergency mearsures" and extending unpopular policies. Question is will these spenditures and unpopular policies cease if and when we turn the corner....Only time will tell, and time is not on their side...
http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v5n1/homepage.html
"One way of summing up the difficulty Americans have in understanding the fundamental roots of their problems is to say that they still have a Lockean political culture, emphasizing individual freedom and the pursuit of individual affluence (the American dream) in a society with a most un-Lockean economy and government. We have the illusion that we can control our fate because individual economic opportunity is indeed considerable, especially if one starts with middle class advantages; and our political life is formally free. Yet powerful forces affecting the lives of all of us are not operating under the norm of democratic consent. In particular, the private governments of the great corporations make decisions on the basis of their own advantage, not of the public good. The federal government has enormously increased its power, especially in the form of the military industrial complex, in ways that are almost invulnerable to citizen knowledge, much less control, on the grounds of national defense. The private rewards and the formal freedoms have obscured from us how much we have lost in genuine democratic control of the society we live in."
Tie, says your Liberal slip is showing.....How further from the truth that is. I think it's time for more "barking dog" videos for him...lol