Question about what Obama just said.

[SciFiBoy]

akuma587 said:

SciFiBoy said:

akuma587 said:

SciFiBoy said:
so, Mafoo wants to go back in time 250 years and get slaves to do everything the working class do now, for awful treatment and they all die before 40, he dosent care about them as there somehow inferior though?

Sounds about right.

 

so, that discredits him completley yes? how can anyone defend thoose views?

I've seen people defend stranger views than that.  Mafoo thinks that the government should play as little a role as possible in people's lives, even if some rights get trampled in the process.  He just thinks that a lot more rights are worth trampling than some of us do as he values the government staying in its own little corner more than some of us do.

I think everyone agrees with the principle that government should play a little a role as possible in people's lives, but everyone disagrees on how little of a role is as little of a role as possible.  I and many of you think that healthcare is part of what the government should be responsible for, but we are against the government telling people what religion to believe in.

So I don't think anyone disagrees with the principle that the government should play as small of a role as possible in people's lives.  But none of us agree on where to draw that line.

 

 

surely no-one can defend slavery though? he essentially wants to treat the working classes as such