‘Fiscal Conservative’ means more than that. It also means “spend no more money than you have to”, or “be frugal with the people’s money”.
Your definition allows a tax-and-spend politician to raise taxes wildly while blowing money on every harebrained scheme he can think of, then call himself a ‘fiscal conservative’. Hey, he’s paying for it, right?
Silly Dave, the point isn’t that I want to make the best use of MY resources, it’s that they are MY resources to make what use I want of in the first place. The state of Alaska has stolen that right from me. Or do you claim the theft doesn’t count because they’re doing better with MY oil than I could individually? The later sounds a lot like an argument in favor of a socialistic nanny state.
I was being somewhat facetious with BOTH parties engaging in spending sprees. Better I should have said, “If you believe this program, mandate, war, series of new regulations, etc… is really essential to the security and well-being of the USA; raise the required money”.
A fiscal conservative shouldn’t be afraid to spend money, or raise taxes; just have a justification for doing same. Balance the books; I have to and most states have to as well.
I nominate Rummy:
http://fallingsky.blogs.com/falling_sky/_eclecticism_2004_05_graphics_kung_fu_donald_rumsfeld.jpg
or Dubya:
http://www.lilith-ezine.com/articles/politics/images/Bush-Monkey.jpg
If there’s going to be a face for the repubs, why not a funny face.
Your oil resources are co-mingled with the rest of the Alaskans under the ground. Your argument fails in the real world.
If you like, take your Permanent Fund Dividend Check and invest in oil futures for your kids.
Guys, I’m an Alaskan. And the state certainly does use the oil revenue to fund social programs. And of course, Alaska has the highest per capita rate of Federal spending in the country. And well over 90% of the state is public land of one kind or another–national parks, state parks, national forests, state forests, wildlife refuges, native lands, national monuments, military bases, and on and on.
So the real world is socialist in this case.
Nice try of wiggling out of a dumb statement. If you only cared about the ability to make your own choices, then why did you say you wanted to sell 100 years from now when the oil would be worth much more? Seems clear that you thought that made some sort of economic sense to do so.
It’s called bait. You bit.
“Who is the face of the Republican party?” Joe the Plumber. Dumb guys suckered into shouting nonsense against their own best interests because lobbyists bought and paid for their representatives.
Sure. Why don’t you tell what exactly I bit on since all I did was point out an incorrect statement that you made. Better yet, you could just admit that you were wrong and move on.
Harry Reid, but you could never see his face because he was always ducking for cover and hiding under his desk. Pretty much the same as he’s still doing.
Well, this should come as no surprise.
Their Top 15?
It is telling that of the 18 names on that list, only one is currently holding elective office.
Is is also telling that so many are nothing but clowns: Limbaugh, Palin, Coulter, Malkin, Levin and Beck.
No Hannity? Another clown as well.
Nos. 5 and 6 (Steyn and Krauthammer) are even Canadians.
The key here is that the republican policies were redistributive. Tax breaks and tax loopholes to the rich resulted in the redistribution of the general wealth to a concentration at the top . It just goes up instead of across the board. The republican policies of Bush accomplished a huge concentration of wealth to the top.
Hey, that’s pretty brilliant yourself.
And I’d rather look at Hillary Clinton’s ass, despite her being on the north side of 60, than have to look at Rush Limbaugh from any angle.
Sean was tied w/Scalia, W. & Bobby Jindal (among others) for 16th place.
Strange that none of these people are involved in the Republican platform, goals and policies. They are just noisemakers. The real power is Cheney, Kristol, Pearle, Wolfowitz and other neocons who draft the policies in the background. Add Rupert Murdoch and a few in control of TV and radio and you have those who are the party. They hire the people on that list.