Liberalism as defined by wiki:
From the Latin liberalis, "of freedom" is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights.Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but most liberals support such fundamental ideas as constitutions, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights, free trade, secular society, and the market economy. These ideas are often accepted even among political groups that do not openly profess a liberal ideological orientation. Liberalism encompasses several intellectual trends and traditions, but the dominant variants are classical liberalism, which became popular in the 18th century, and social liberalism, which became popular in the 20th century.
When I read the definition above, I think of concepts that are usually associated with the founding of America such as laissez-faire and separation of church and state, possibly a close definition of modern-day libertarianism
. But for this discussion I'll limit myself to modern liberalism or post-1930's-FDR-statistism. The concept that most people think of when it comes to liberalism is actually, social liberalism or modern liberalism. The current US Democratic Party
and the Korean DLP and Minjudang are considered modern liberals or leftists.John Stossel
recently wrote an article that is much more eloquent: ...By contrast, libertarians want government to leave people alone—in both the economic and personal spheres. Leave us free to pursue our hopes and dreams, as long as we don't hurt anybody else.
Ironically, that used to be called "liberal," which has the same root as "liberty." Several hundred years ago, liberalism was a reaction against the stifling rules imposed by aristocracy and established religion.
I wish I could call myself "liberal" now. But the word has been turned on its head. It now means health police, high taxes, speech codes, and so forth.
So I can't call myself a "liberal." I'm stuck with "libertarian." If you have a better word, please let me know....
A typical reaction to libertarianism
is, "What about the poor?" The poor aren't helped by the government. It doesn't help them become self-reliant but dependent upon the welfare. Libertarianism
would get licensing and regulations out of the way so the poor can help themselves. Have people looked around Korea? There are all sorts of pojang makcha's and truck-based vendors and sidewalk sellers. Can you imagine if someone tried to do that in the states? The police would hassle these people.Another point is referencing the Constitution
. Liberals like to focus on the general welfare clause and expand the government to do good things for everyone. Libertarians
tend to strictly interpret the Constitution
because the intent of the Constitution
was to restrict the government to specific duties. All of this beauracracy is rooted in FDR's unconstitutional
expansions, and when the government grows it takes from our pockets and erodes the liberties and rights that were fought for 200 years ago.
is doing. The more we empower 
to do for us, the more 
we give up. I mean, really, do I have to talk about the 
.
was a type of infomercial that was put in between Saturday morning 
for us children back in the 70's and 80's. I don't know if they continue this awesome practice or if they've changed the infomercials into 
brainwash. I'm just that far out of touch. So for your viewing pleasure I give you the following...
work. There's a lot of 
and 
, 
, 
, and all sorts of 
. Of course, this is the kind of thing that pisses off most people, and from listening to my German brother-in-law, you'd think this sort of thing ONLY happens in America and 3rd word countries. When I listen to him talk about the 
, it sounds like they have improved on Britain's parliamentary system added a few American and Soviet tweaks and came out with a rainbow strudel!
) received equal air-time on television and radio. Wow, talk about a game changer in the states!
to adjust the bill and make deals. And various 
were overlooked or attempted to be bypassed. All very shady, coming from an administration that advertised itself for its desire for 
. This behavior is nothing better than the previous administration. Let's hear it from Bill again, this time revamped for the year '10...
folks are finally mobilizing and are going to do something. 
is a great disappointment to a lot of those folks, so I can only hope that we will find a new leader (not Palin) to take back the government.
to do much, except perhaps to sit on my couch and write on the blog. Hey, at least it's productive, no? I woke up around 6 this morning, and decided I'd clean the 
today. It's been a little while since I did that, and I don't want the wife to do that kind of cleaning. She's carrying my second 
and I don't want to take any chances. So I watered everything up, 
the important bits and double 
the parts where skin has to touch. You figure it out. After a good cleaning that's when I felt this sickness come on. It can't be attributed to 
the bathroom, I must have caught something it the past couple days. Maybe it was the 
from yesterday..very possible.
, drinking water in order to flush this 
I have. I hope things get better by tomorrow morning because it will suck working while feeling like 
.What's that? Why don't I stay home? To hell with that. I'd gotten sick from other people at work and I'm not one to hold back when I can 
something like this. Besides, I'd rather spend my days off doing something I like rather than lying around being half-productive. 
, 
, 
, flush the dust out of my system.
