Welcome to the Age of Welfare Politics and the ever growing Nanny State.
Welcome to the Age of the Progressive Liberals; the new “Aristocracy” in Power.
It cracks me up how Progressives seem today more than ever preoccupied with the concept of “fairness.” My observation is that they always seem to think they know what is best for everyone else. They are, in my opinion, usually self-righteous busy-bodies whose views are often well-intentioned but misguided and almost always devoid of any critical analysis, such as consideration of unintended consequences.
The Eighteenth Amendment is a good example of this; it curbed public drunkenness, but gave us speakeasies, bootleggers and Al Capone.
Other Progressive brainstorms gave us the Sixteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution resulting in federal income tax. The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote and removed the only true representation that the sovereign states had at the federal level. If a Senator was beholden to the state legislators who had selected him or her to serve, they would be less likely to support a federal program which appropriated the resources of their state. After the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment, the members of the U.S. Senate became a de facto House of Lords; counselors to the imperial Presidency and answerable to none..........http://goo.gl/yq4Dq
Welcome to the Age of the Progressive Liberals; the new “Aristocracy” in Power.
It cracks me up how Progressives seem today more than ever preoccupied with the concept of “fairness.” My observation is that they always seem to think they know what is best for everyone else. They are, in my opinion, usually self-righteous busy-bodies whose views are often well-intentioned but misguided and almost always devoid of any critical analysis, such as consideration of unintended consequences.
The Eighteenth Amendment is a good example of this; it curbed public drunkenness, but gave us speakeasies, bootleggers and Al Capone.
Other Progressive brainstorms gave us the Sixteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution resulting in federal income tax. The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote and removed the only true representation that the sovereign states had at the federal level. If a Senator was beholden to the state legislators who had selected him or her to serve, they would be less likely to support a federal program which appropriated the resources of their state. After the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment, the members of the U.S. Senate became a de facto House of Lords; counselors to the imperial Presidency and answerable to none..........http://goo.gl/yq4Dq
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