Thanks, Garfield226. I just wish I’d scrolled down and read your post before I clicked on it at work (luckily I had the foresight to turn down the volume).
Even better, a warning in the OP would have been great.
Well, I know it was a rant, and a rhetorical question, and that the OP wasn’t expecting a real answer. But here’s mine.
1.) Lesser of two evils.
2.) Hoping to see ANWR open.
3.) Hoping to avoid the inevitable “people can’t possibly take care of themselves, they need the government to take care of them, therefore we will take from the rich and give to the poor etc etc” mentality of the Democrats
And this even though with the republicans in power, my particular industry suffers insofar as contracts.
I take issue with “3”. Few Democrats actually believe what you claim they believe… it is more that working people use THEIR government to protect themselves from the ruthless rich than they think of government as some parental entity to care FOR them. It’s better than the duplicity of claiming you want small government while continuing to grow it, and having a government that is less and less accountable to the people and less and less likely to do things FOR them rather than TO them.
What skutir said plus the fact that if this is what the Democrats have been trying to do, they have failed beyond their wildest nightmares since the reality of the situation is our society has seen an explosion in the after-tax income of the rich (increasing by 200% in real terms between 1979 and 2000) while the after-tax income of those near the median has increased only modestly (15% in real terms between 1979 and 2000) and the poor have done even worse. See here for the Congressional Budget Office data and here site for an analysis of that data by the liberal think-tank Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.
If you think that it is perfectly healthy that our society should be structured so that all of the gains we make go to a select few…and that in fact the problem is that ithe gains have been too equitably distributed over the the period from 1979 to 2000, then George Bush is indeed your man.) As the satirical website “BillionairesForBushOrGore.com” used to say, “…Because inequality isn’t increasing fast enough…”
I’m still having trouble figuring out how George Bush is responsible for the OPs school funding. Isn’t that a local decision? And didn’t Bush pump huge amounts of dollars into the Department of Education?
I didn’t vote for Bush the last time, and I sure as hell won’t this time, but that doesn’t make the OPs rant any less stupid.
But not, so far, in this country, which, whether this has been by accident or design, is really what most people in the US seem to be concerned about.
There has never, to my knowledge, been a major domestic terror attack that was carried out by someone who had entered the country clandestinely via Mexico. It isn’t necessary. The 9/11 hijackers apparently entered the US legally, though controlled entry points, and were here for years. So what was your point again?
Point made, but just asking here, do you really believe that every job gained or lost is the personal responsibility of the President?
He’s a Republican, for cryin’ out loud. It’s what they do. It’s not like he’s wildly out of line with the tenets of his party. How’d all the other Republican Presidents get elected?
Since my understanding is that the majority of educational funding takes place at the local and state level, why is this all Bush’s fault?
Wildly overstated, as is the bulk of the OP’s rant.
Your are aware, aren’t you, that gasoline prices are not fixed by executive fiat, nor by any other branch of the government, for that matter?
Your choice. I’m certainly not asking you to join the Army on my account.
I disagree with you. Feel free to point out any false statements I’ve made here.
As stupid as this rant is, I have to admit that game is fun. Highly biased, but fun. I’m trying to decide who’s special attack I like more…Fatass He-Man’s or Voltron John Kerry’s.
This isn’t a rant, just an extended set-up for more thunder, lightning and brouhaha. It isn’t like we’re exactly lacking in any of that right now. Games, even topical ones, aren’t arguments.
Don’t think so.
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