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Originally Posted by hankhavelock
Less and less conservative? Tell that to your lovers in the current administration... they are as nastily conservative and anti-progress as anyone ever...
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Yeah less conservative. How else would you explain that $700 billion bailout package? OMFG! There have been many other acts of big government before, but that one takes the cake.
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Originally Posted by hankhavelock
and trust me, there's NOTHING socialist about your democrats in that country of yours.
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There are varying degrees of socialism, and no doubt you can be more socialist. But the democrats are trying to protect social security (obviously a socialist program) even though there's no way it can possibly last without dumping a shitload of money into it. They want to tax the rich more than their fair share. No brainer on that one. And they have also initiated programs to provide loans to those who frankly are not able to repay them. Which is why we may be forced to do the $700 billion bailout. Hillary Clinton's health care proposal was socialized medicine, and thankfully never passed. And Obama's quote "If I am sitting pretty, and you got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can't, what's the big deal to say I'm going to pay a little more? That's neighborlyness." Of course, there's nothing wrong with tipping your waitress, but what he's really talking about is forcing this type of income redistribution and making it law.
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Originally Posted by hankhavelock
Of course I believe in wealth redistribution, are you kidding? What do you want? Jungle law? A laisse-faire system? Screw the poor! Screw the midgets! Screw the ladyboys... screw democracy? You are a true right-winger.
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That's all fine and noble until you see what it creates, which is laziness. You have people who start thinking, why bother trying to get a good job when all those suckers who worked their way into riches will just have to give me their money anyway? The rich start to think, what's the point in working harder? You see that a lot here where people have bullshit jobs and pop out baby after baby for the child tax credit. Now you've got a growing portion of the population who was raised thinking that laziness pays off. Capitalism does work fairly. It rewards those who work hard and strengthens the economy. Anybody, except for those who are truly mentally or physically disabled, can improve themselves and make a buck in this country. And for the mentally or physically disabled, yeah, help them out. But that does not include the 36 million blacks and 11 million illegal aliens in this country, at least not ALL of them. Go on and call me racist, but I would say someone who says blacks are not able to work as hard as the rest of the population is a racist. And yes there should be anti-discrimination laws, but not reverse discrimination laws like affirmative action. Racism is a bad thing, but what people outside this country do not realize is that anti-racism is often taken to an extreme here as well. This results in people being given jobs they are not qualified for, up to and including president of the united states. How many times have you heard people say it's about time we have a black man as president, without noting Obama is the least qualified presidential candidate in 100 years. Poor people in a strong economy are much better off than poor people in a weak economy.
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Originally Posted by hankhavelock
Honey bunny, wake up, please! I realize you love George Bush and his policies - you probably think that he made your country a lot better (I'm sure you couldn't care less about the rest of the world, as a true American republican).
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Like everyone else, you assume because I don't like the BS the democrats spew that I am a George Bush disciple. Actually I can't wait for him to leave before he does more damage. He's done a few good things, the rest I'm adamantly opposed to. Unfortunately McCain seems to be quite similar in many areas. But like Bush, he's not as bad as the democrats would be.
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Originally Posted by hankhavelock
If you could only broaden your mind set a bit and look beyond the romantic dream of the New Patriotism as defined by your current administration... if you could only travel abroad and find out how America currently appears from outside, well then maybe you could see my point.
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I would love to travel to other countries, and I should honestly make a real point to do that. I'm quite aware that few like the way this country is run. But what I am not clear on is how that hurts other countries? Please enlighten me?
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Originally Posted by hankhavelock
But this is exactly why the election of the American president is too important a task to leave solely to Americans :-)
Kisses!
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HA! Never
