Re: A Day in the Life of a Republican... down2basics: Feeling better now dragon boy? Exactly what is this arguement trying to accomplish other than entertaining the masses? We have already had this discussion.....NEXT?
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Re: A Day in the Life of a Republican... Beren: At this point in my life, I've been around long enough to not be terribly impressed with either side. I was raised by liberal parents, but I became a pretty staunch conservative in my 20's. Now, in my 30's, I consider myself only weakly conservative. I hate to sound like a "peace, love, and harmony" kind of guy, but I really do think we need both sides. I do want my government to protect me to a certain degree, but there's a point where I start feeling like it's out of control. It's like I'm paying half my income for the privilege of having an overbearing and suffocating mother look after me. Can I have my money back?
Not that this is entirely the fault of liberals, either. Never mind Iraq; I do think that reasonable people can agree to disagree on whether we should be there, and I don't want to argue about it right now. But why oh why, for God's sake, do we still have over 75,000 troops in Germany? Are we really still worried about the Nazis coming back to power? Heck, we have fewer than 20,000 in Afghanistan.
Liberals have done plenty of things that I appreciate, but that doesn't mean I'm moved to vote for them. It's all about power for them as much as it is for the conservatives. The strategy is to take from the few and give to the many, for the simple reason that the many have more votes than the few. Sometimes this has good results, and sometimes it doesn't.
Beren
Re: A Day in the Life of a Republican... Phyxius: Joe has to pay his federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided to subsidize college education so that universities, freed from competitive pressure, no longer had to keep tuition costs down.
Well, actually elitism was what the Pell Grants and Stafford Loans were enacted to combat. Unless, of course, you think only the rich should go to college? Hmmmmmm?
Joe had the GPA and SAT scores to get into Harvard, but he had to settle for a community college because racial quotas kept him out while admitting inner city students who couldn't read or write, but had mastered multiple techniques of fitting a condom in high school sex-ed.
Actually, it didn't matter what his SAT score was, or what color his skin is, because, as a staunch Republican who does not believe in government handouts, Joe did not avail himself of his Financial Aid options. And since his father was a technician at a nuclear power plant earning less than $75,000 per year, he didn't have a hope in hell of paying the $38,000 in tuition and fees at Harvard.
Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. He has to practice defensive driving because some America-hating liberal had alcoholism classified as a legally-protected disease and disability.
No, he has to practice defensive driving because liberal-hating conservatives shot down a proposal to force ignition inhibiting breathalyzers be installed on a DUI offender's vehicle after the first offense. Besides, what self-respecting small-government, anti- big brother conservative would allow his freedom to be curtailed simply because he had a little too much to drink? ::)
He arrives at his boyhood home. The countryside used to be a quiet, leisurely, pristine place to live until the Federal highway system and force bussing overran the bucolic countryside with suburban sprawl as urbanites fled the cities.
Yeah, right. Again - you can thank a REPUBLICAN for the Federal highway system. And are you really suggesting that reintroducing SEGREGATION is the answer to suburban sprawl? :o
Re: A Day in the Life of a Republican... down2basics: Ya know - the more you tout your loving liberals - the more it sounds like a communist existence rather than a democracy. I mean - doesn't socialist republics and communist nations make all the decisions for their people? That way no one has to accept responsibility for their actions - it's all the GOVERNMENT's fault? Is that where we are headed?
Chugging Pantene?
ignition inhibiting breathalyzers?
bureaucracy of middlemen and women?
What exactly then is the solution to an ever increasing problem of bureaucracy and liberals giving it all away and conservatives taking it all away?
Either way - IT'S GONE!
Re: A Day in the Life of a Republican... frontier74: [quote author=Beren link=topic=22567.msg210471#msg210471 date=1134414863">
But why oh why, for God's sake, do we still have over 75,000 troops in Germany? Are we really still worried about the Nazis coming back to power? Heck, we have fewer than 20,000 in Afghanistan.
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I think that much of the newly found peaceful coexistence in Europe is due, in large part, to the American Military presence. The U.S. military gives the host countries peace of mind, as well as economic advantages. It provides us with a base of operations and allows us to mobilize much quicker in certain parts of the world.
Ok, I’ll stop hijacking the thread now.
On topic: In my view, both extremes are full of crap, but often necessary to drive change. Luckily, most policy may be envisioned in extremes, but then moves toward the center when implemented.
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