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Re: Government is good?

MaikU — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:56:18 GMT

Is it a poe website? It must be.

Re: Government is good?

Anarcho — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:03:18 GMT

Also, it's alot easier to just leave a church which "requires members who can afford it to contribute" then up and leave the State. Where am i going to go, a State that robs me of less of my money. Yipee. If i don't like donating to a church, i don't go to church, that doesn't stop me from worshipping whatever it is I worship. Stop paying the State however....

Re: Government is good?

vaguelyhumanoid — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:39:20 GMT

Nico, I never claimed that most professors aren't pro-government. I just was expressing that it's fucking scary that these kind of views are academically sanctioned.

Re: Government is good?

Michael J Green — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:20:13 GMT

Yeah, will churches hunt a person down if they didn't put a $20 bill in the collection plate?

Hey, churches need that $20 to maintain their predator drones.

Re: Government is good?

Nico — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:20:05 GMT

Fuck, man. To think this guy's a professor... we're in deep shit.

If you think most college (especially poli-sci) professors aren't at least as pro-government as this guy... you are fooling yourself. IMO.

Re: Government is good?

Eric080 — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:13:25 GMT

"In fact, we should feel good about all the good our tax dollars are doing – just as we feel good about the all the good our religious donations do. Of course it could be argued that there is a big difference here – that giving money to churches is voluntary and we are required to pay taxes. But in practice, many religious organizations require members who can afford it to contribute regularly – payments that are really more like mandatory dues than purely voluntary donations. In any case, the point is that contributing toward an organization that is promoting the public good should not be seen as a bad thing."

Yeah, will churches hunt a person down if they didn't put a $20 bill in the collection plate?

Re: Government is good?

vaguelyhumanoid — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:04:59 GMT

They also seem to think that anti-statism is right-wing and that Reagan, Tea Partiers etc. are anti-statist. Worst of all: it's "A web project of Douglas J. Amy, Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College".

Fuck, man. To think this guy's a professor... we're in deep shit.

Re: Government is good?

jay — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:36:01 GMT

The "Big Government Is Not Your Enemy" graphic on the right-hand side gave me chills, literally.

Re: Government is good?

Autolykos — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:32:46 GMT

I went to that site years ago and e-mailed the author a rather serious question (I can't remember what it was, though). Needless to say, he never replied -- which seems to speak volumes about his intellectual honesty.

Re: Government is good?

Evilsceptic — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:10:42 GMT

Crazy keynsian fascists.

Re: Government is good?

AdrianHealey — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:51:36 GMT

It's one big 'the seen and the unseen', denying the law of unintended consequence and attributing wrong causal connections.

Government is good?

Anarcho — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:47:52 GMT

At least according to this site it is. http://www.governmentisgood.com I admit i didn't read all the wealth of information on the website because my sides were hurting too much from all my laughter but I thought some of you might enjoy.