Monday, April 14, 2008

 

Five questions

Some questions from the quiz, and my answers. Discuss.

1.
Books that contain dangerous ideas should be banned from public school libraries

or

Public school libraries should be allowed to carry any books they want -- AGREE STRONGLY, "they" being the school librarians and local school boards working together and not giving undue attention to voiced ignorance.



2.
Government is almost always wasteful and inefficient

or

Government often does a better job than people give it credit for -- AGREE, on core duties especially. I think states, especially, will rue the day they privatized so much of their sovereignty; I'm thinking here of privatized prisons mainly. And the nation, already, should rue the privatization of *its* sovereignty to private contractors in the the war in Iraq. Accountabilty to the people goes to hell in a privatized handcart.



3.
Immigrants today strengthen our country because of their hard work and talents -- AGREE, but mainly because the assertions in the other question -- "they take our jobs, housing and health care" -- are false.

or

Immigrants today are a burden on our country because they take our jobs, housing and health care



4.
Religion is a very important part of my life -- AGREE

or

Religion is not that important to me



5.
The government should do more to help needy Americans, even if it means going deeper into debt -- AGREE, but mainly because the other question -- "can't afford to do much more" -- is ludicrous. If we can afford guns in Iraq supposedly for the national defense without, then we can afford butter at home for the national defense within.

or

The government today can't afford to do much more to help the needy


Sigh. It's gonna be slow around here with both GKS and DrLoboJo sidelined. I think they butted heads so hard they butted each other plumb out of the blogosphere.

--ER

Comments:
Big-O shock, I came up as Liberal. I suppose that's because "socialist" didn't seem to be an option ... :P
 
Hoo hoo. SP brushed up against communism in his sermon about commonism Sunday. Whoa.

... Of course he did! :-)
 
I understand what your tack on no. 4, but semantically speaking, I don't want religion, I want genuine faith.

Interesting quiz. Especially your responses... not a whole lot to disagree with.
 
On No. 4: I know, me, too. But I thought it best to sidestep that, since the difference in the two is, at once, a huge gap in theory but a nothing in the practice of most everyday people.

There's a blog there in itself:

I have faith. And, I am religious. But I don't have a pious bone in my body. Go figure. :-)
 
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