Comments for E5150.com http://www.e5150.com Joe Bayer Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:20:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on All About Your Junk by Rob Rasner http://www.e5150.com/2011/01/junk/#comment-1881 Rob Rasner Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:20:29 +0000 http://www.e5150.com/?p=1233#comment-1881 <strong>Rob Rasner Suggests It's An Incredible Posting Congratulations...</strong> Excellent post, reckoned I would like to back-link to it... fyi did one read regarding Middle East has now got much more problerms also :(... Rob Rasner Suggests It’s An Incredible Posting Congratulations…

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]]> Comment on State Budgets by Joe Bayer http://www.e5150.com/2011/02/state-budgets/#comment-78 Joe Bayer Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:46:15 +0000 http://www.e5150.com/?p=1279#comment-78 Absolutely, I am all in favor of the Fair Tax, which would eliminate all tax breaks, loopholes, subsidies and corporate welfare. Absolutely, I am all in favor of the Fair Tax, which would eliminate all tax breaks, loopholes, subsidies and corporate welfare.

]]> Comment on State Budgets by Dancar http://www.e5150.com/2011/02/state-budgets/#comment-76 Dancar Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:43:46 +0000 http://www.e5150.com/?p=1279#comment-76 Can we ask that wall street bankers and very wealthy people who just had their tax breaks extended also come back to coach? Can we ask that wall street bankers and very wealthy people who just had their tax breaks extended also come back to coach?

]]> Comment on Perpetual Victimhood by Joe Bayer http://www.e5150.com/2011/01/perpetual-victimhood/#comment-67 Joe Bayer Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:25:41 +0000 http://www.e5150.com/?p=1237#comment-67 Your assertion that the Libertarian/Tea Party viewpoint that government can do no right, is absurd. There is a very important role for government. We institute government to secure our God given Rights. The government gets its power from the People, those powers are limited and specific. The Tea Party movement has been created and is growing because the government has grossly overstepped its authority. Your assertion that the Libertarian/Tea Party viewpoint that government can do no right, is absurd. There is a very important role for government. We institute government to secure our God given Rights. The government gets its power from the People, those powers are limited and specific. The Tea Party movement has been created and is growing because the government has grossly overstepped its authority.

]]> Comment on Perpetual Victimhood by Dancar http://www.e5150.com/2011/01/perpetual-victimhood/#comment-66 Dancar Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:57:13 +0000 http://www.e5150.com/?p=1237#comment-66 George Carlin expresses the extreme left point of view that corporations can do no right. Ironically this is from a performance that was produced and broadcast by some of the same "evil corporations" he is talking about, and they paid Carlin handsomely for it. The counterpart to this argument - equally flawed - is the Libertarian/Tea Party viewpoint that government can do no right. I feel free market should be left to do things it does better, and governments should be able to do the things they do better, among those being regulating private companies when necessary. Yes, we have the choice (in most cases) which private businesses to spend our money at. Governments are also accountable, but through our votes. You can't fire the government, but you can vote the bums out. We don't always get to choose which business to spend our money on. Most people have employer-provided health insurance, so they have no choice which company to choose. When I lived in California and Enron was manipulating the energy market to fleece Californians, we could not simply go to another energy company. And while we do have choices on the more retail level, like restaurants, I'd prefer not to inspect each one before eating, so I'm glad there is government regulation to enforce health standards. If I choose to not go back to a restaurant, it shouldn't be because I got hepatitis there. The USA most Americans would want is one that exercises the proper balance between private business interests and government. George Carlin expresses the extreme left point of view that corporations can do no right. Ironically this is from a performance that was produced and broadcast by some of the same “evil corporations” he is talking about, and they paid Carlin handsomely for it.

The counterpart to this argument – equally flawed – is the Libertarian/Tea Party viewpoint that government can do no right. I feel free market should be left to do things it does better, and governments should be able to do the things they do better, among those being regulating private companies when necessary.

Yes, we have the choice (in most cases) which private businesses to spend our money at. Governments are also accountable, but through our votes. You can’t fire the government, but you can vote the bums out. We don’t always get to choose which business to spend our money on. Most people have employer-provided health insurance, so they have no choice which company to choose. When I lived in California and Enron was manipulating the energy market to fleece Californians, we could not simply go to another energy company.

And while we do have choices on the more retail level, like restaurants, I’d prefer not to inspect each one before eating, so I’m glad there is government regulation to enforce health standards. If I choose to not go back to a restaurant, it shouldn’t be because I got hepatitis there.

The USA most Americans would want is one that exercises the proper balance between private business interests and government.

]]> Comment on God or Government by Joe Bayer http://www.e5150.com/2010/10/god-or-government/#comment-58 Joe Bayer Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:25:13 +0000 http://www.e5150.com/?p=1083#comment-58 I think that you are missing the point of my post, my goal isn't so much trying to convince everyone that our Rights come from God, it is more about pointing out the main difference between those on the left and those on the right of the economic political spectrum and to remind those on the left that this country was founded for those on the right. This is why our Constitution is so different from the constitutions of other countries, ours does not give any Rights to the people, but instead gives certain, and very limited, powers to the federal government in order to protect the Rights that God has given us. I think that you are missing the point of my post, my goal isn’t so much trying to convince everyone that our Rights come from God, it is more about pointing out the main difference between those on the left and those on the right of the economic political spectrum and to remind those on the left that this country was founded for those on the right. This is why our Constitution is so different from the constitutions of other countries, ours does not give any Rights to the people, but instead gives certain, and very limited, powers to the federal government in order to protect the Rights that God has given us.

]]> Comment on God or Government by Dancar http://www.e5150.com/2010/10/god-or-government/#comment-57 Dancar Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:16:42 +0000 http://www.e5150.com/?p=1083#comment-57 I don't follow your argument. Anyone can see can see the daytime cloudless sky and our language defines the color as "blue." But "self-evidence" is subjective. Growing up in the United States, it may feel self evident, but not of you grew up where these rights did not exist they are self evident. People growing up in the South felt it was "self-evident" that Africans should be subservient to white people. Muslims may feel it is self evident that the Koran is the true word of god. You must have objective way of determining something (like what can be seen in the sky) to say something is really self evident. Most Christians consider the Bible to be the word of God, but the Bible does say we have the rights referred to in the Constitution. The Declaration of Independence is not part of the Bible, and therefore not the authority of what God does or does not do. To say the that it is self-evident that Rights come from God is circular reasoning. I don’t follow your argument. Anyone can see can see the daytime cloudless sky and our language defines the color as “blue.” But “self-evidence” is subjective. Growing up in the United States, it may feel self evident, but not of you grew up where these rights did not exist they are self evident. People growing up in the South felt it was “self-evident” that Africans should be subservient to white people. Muslims may feel it is self evident that the Koran is the true word of god. You must have objective way of determining something (like what can be seen in the sky) to say something is really self evident.

Most Christians consider the Bible to be the word of God, but the Bible does say we have the rights referred to in the Constitution. The Declaration of Independence is not part of the Bible, and therefore not the authority of what God does or does not do. To say the that it is self-evident that Rights come from God is circular reasoning.

]]> Comment on Property Rights by Dancar http://www.e5150.com/2010/12/property-rights/#comment-56 Dancar Mon, 03 Jan 2011 00:03:46 +0000 http://www.e5150.com/?p=1213#comment-56 While the brutal land distribution in China during the 1950s and 60s may be an example of this, recent proposals to allow income tax on high earners to go back to what they were under Clinton and GHWB are hardly that. While the brutal land distribution in China during the 1950s and 60s may be an example of this, recent proposals to allow income tax on high earners to go back to what they were under Clinton and GHWB are hardly that.

]]> Comment on Death Panels Are Required Under Obamacare by Dancar http://www.e5150.com/2010/12/death-panels-required-obamacare/#comment-55 Dancar Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:58:18 +0000 http://www.e5150.com/?p=1224#comment-55 So if your neighbor were to be laid off and lost their health insurance, and then needed an organ transplant, would you cash in your retirement savings to pay his medical bills? Or would you and anyone else who said "sorry, I can't help you" be the Death Panel? I understand your point that not everyone can have any treatment they want at any time, but wouldn't be more honest to title your post "Death Panels Are Required Under The Laws Of Economics?" So if your neighbor were to be laid off and lost their health insurance, and then needed an organ transplant, would you cash in your retirement savings to pay his medical bills? Or would you and anyone else who said “sorry, I can’t help you” be the Death Panel?

I understand your point that not everyone can have any treatment they want at any time, but wouldn’t be more honest to title your post “Death Panels Are Required Under The Laws Of Economics?”

]]> Comment on God or Government by Joe Bayer http://www.e5150.com/2010/10/god-or-government/#comment-54 Joe Bayer Sat, 01 Jan 2011 03:27:43 +0000 http://www.e5150.com/?p=1083#comment-54 In response to your question: "So is there anything to back up the statement that Rights come from God other than that is served the political interests of the Founding Fathers...?" Answer: We hold these truths to be self evident. If we were to debate the color of the sky, and you were to ask me to "prove" it to you, I would not have to because it is self evident. In response to your question:

“So is there anything to back up the statement that Rights come from God other than that is served the political interests of the Founding Fathers…?”

Answer:

We hold these truths to be self evident.

If we were to debate the color of the sky, and you were to ask me to “prove” it to you, I would not have to because it is self evident.

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