Romney doesn't care about 47% of americans

[Mr Khan]

badgenome said:

Mr Khan said:

Romania's as fucked up as it is because Caucescu decided to ban all birth control in an effort to get a bigger labor force. It didn't help things.

Also, i can't believe anyone's suggesting that needy children should be tossed off of welfare to prevent the births of more needy children. That's just heartless.

Because welfare is the only way to take care of the needy. You really need to read Bastiat.

"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain."

I can think of a lot of reasons why Romania's fucked up. A long dead dictator banning birth control isn't in the top 10.

Whoever that is is doing a bad job of being clever.

The understanding, here, is that society is capable of being just as oppressive as the state is, and so the state needs to work to stamp out societal oppression, without itself being unduly oppressive.