Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Politics: Tradition and Vision | Newt Gingrich | EP 301" video.

  1. Dr. Gingrich is a very creative man. His subordinates used to say (good-naturedly, as far as I can tell) that they needed an enormous steamer trunk, labelled "Newt's Ideas". They also needed a shoebox, labelled "Newt's Good Ideas." It would be interesting to know whether, objectively speaking, Newt is one of those rare animals that is both high in creativity and high in conservatism.
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  2. "Freedom leads to responsibility and work" Freedom is the ability to choose the load that you want to pick up - because you're going to have a better time figuring out what that load is, than the government will.
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  3. "Lincoln would be opposed to everyone living in a position of dependency" Lincoln goes farther - in one of his early letters, he wrote that he believed that Americans were too individualistic to be employees their whole lives, preferring instead to "hang out their shingle" as independent contractors.
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  4. "Adults are only parents at the approval of their children" Our Family Law system enforces this -- children easily play their parents off of one another. Any woman filing for no-fault divorce (or man, for that matter, but that happens far less frequently) is committing child abuse.
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  5. "There isn't any freedom without rules" There are rules to swimming, and only someone who knows those rules (and obeys them) is actually free to move around in the water.
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