Originally Posted by cmac2012

In what way is that different from imposing such things as unprovoked war, open pit mines, SDI, etc. on people who don't share that particular vision?

Or how about deeming it fine and dandy that HMO tycoons like Frist and family become filthy rich employing doctors often trained at publicly funded universities and who make a fraction of what the execs make? And further setting such things up so that HMOs become a de facto tool of big corps, Who get a much better deal on care than the individual citizen?

The actions in Iraq that you champion, to use your words, "inflict their vision of social improvement on people who don't share their vision."

You are not looking at or presenting the full picture. And, one of the big "social improvement" experiments in our nation's history -- the GI Bill -- benefited you, and it sprang from damn liberals, your lengthy rational on why it is perfectly good and proper that it does benefit you notwithstanding.

I could mention that the 40 hour week most all of us think is the way to go might never have come into being without noisy protests by pinko labor unions years back. Damn them and their "inflict(ing) their vision of social improvement" on the rest of us!