Originally Posted by
OCDshaver
I'll go one more round with you and then I have to get back to work. You call them sick, I call them criminal. The implied difference is in who is the victim. In your version, this woman is a victim. In my world, she is a criminal. Big difference there.
You talk about our prisons and how full they are. Keep in mind there is another liberal policy behind that. The last statistic I saw on it had 30% of the prison population belonging to illegal aliens. But I agree with one statement you make in that our policies have failed and resulted in more of the same. But the policies that I see that have failed began with the Roosevelt and the New Deal, further followed up by Johnson and the Great Society. None of it has worked, none of has changed a thing. We pump billions of dollars into social programs AND prisons, the problem persists. Why? Because as you say, these individuals can't think for themselves. And why? Because we are constantly being told that we are victims, not criminals. Because after being arrested several hundred times you can still walk free. Because the gov't encourages you to get on food stamps, tells you it will give you retirement, educate you (yeah, right), cloth you, feed you, and give you medical attention. When they have coddled you to the point to where you can think for yourself, like a child, you probably are no longer able to think clearly. In the end, you can debate these specifics forever. But ask yourself if as a society, politically, socially, are we more liberal today than 75 years ago or more conservative? And what direction are we headed with all of these debated issues and problems? Are we conquering them or are the conquering us? Take another lesson from your former professor. He's on to something.