SmokeyMountains
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Well said Skip, being that I never looked at it that way....I feel better already.Perhaps his staunch support for the death penalty will be part of his future karma played out...
Well said Skip, being that I never looked at it that way....I feel better already.Perhaps his staunch support for the death penalty will be part of his future karma played out...
phillykid said:First off this republican vs democrat issue just isn't pertinant. They are the same freakin party. I would be in favor of a republican....a REAL republican. One who is for smaller federal government, more power to the states. Strong defense and tax cuts. Is Bush a republican? He wants to increase the size of federal government with homeland security office, also his no child left behind program (I thought education is a STATE issue not FEDERAL), also the change to medicare.
A real democrat is for tax hikes and social programs.
Basically the 2 parties are nolonger the separate entites neccessary to balance the country. Republicans are supposed to be supporters of less government control. They want those who are working to take home more of their paycheck and they don't want a bunch of taxes to pay for stuff like welfare and the poor. Democrats are supposed to spend the money, they are to the left, more socialist. Their idea is that we are responsible for one another, they take the taxes from those that make money to pay for programs to benefit the poor. We need both and have neither.
Before you all start lovin Kerry. He now talks all this crap about how the war was wrong, Bush is a liar ....then why did he vote for the war. He had his chance to voice his opinion with his vote, he had a chance to do something and didn't, and now , when it doesn't matter, when it's already done, now is when he talks. I may not like Bush (and I don't) but at least he has the balls to pick a path and follow it even if others disagree (this is both good and bad). We gave Saddam a million chances to come clean, he gave the UN inspectors the run around, what were we supposed to think? Were we supposed to give him a million more? He invaded Kuwait, we should have taken care of him there and ousted him. Bush senior didn't, why? Because the UN wouldn't allow him to.
As for corporations and the wealthy, I hear everyone talking about how they suck and evil greedy corporations. The top 1% pay for over 50% of the taxes in this country. Corporations like walmart wouldn't get that big if people didn't shop there. They shop there cause it's cheaper due to lower overhead. I'm sure there'd be just as many complaints if they were abolished and people had to pay 10 bucks for some Tide detergent. Corporations also provide the majority of jobs in the US. Those in the US making over 100,000 pay almost 45% of that in taxes, those in the middle class pay about 25%.
I don't like Bush, I don't like Kerry they are both tools. The patriot act is BS as are the Amber act and rave act. Oh yeah for those staunch democrats out there, during the 90's (clinton admin) we were bombing the living heck outta Iraq. Last count we had decimated over 500,000 including women and children. During the Columbine occurace we were bombing Kosovo killing mad people over there as well.
As you can see, i have no idea who to vote for lol. With Bush I'd get some idiot asshole who says some dumb crap and does dumb crap. With Kerry I'd get some idiot asshole who says dumb crap and then decides to do some other dumb crap. I'm in favor of REAL Republicans and REAL democrats doing their damn jobs.
Peace
PK