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   "Mike"  wrote in message   
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   > HEALTH CARE AND INSURANCE REFORM   
   >   
      
   > NATIONAL SECURITY...Trumps all other issues   
   >   
   > The only reason I'm voting for Bush. On this he has been spectacular.   
   > I will give credit where credit is due. He has pursued our enemies   
   > instead of waiting for Frances permission slip. He hasn't let fake   
   > anti-war protestor who would be pro-war if a democrat were in office   
   > deter him. He lets the Generals plan the Military Tactics and doesn't   
   > try to run the war like LBJ or Bill Clinton in Somalia. He's changed   
   > the world for the better in this reguard and will go down in the   
   > history books as one of America's greates president of all time on   
   > this issue.   
      
   I agree - national security is issue #1, issue #2 and issue #3.  And we can   
   never again trust a Democrat with it.  The only Democrat running who had a   
   clue about national security, Joe Lieberman, was soundly defeated by the   
   left, despite being on the far left on social issues himself.   
      
   > Republicans and Democrats both suck!   
      
   I can only agree somewhat.  Most Democrats suck.  All too many Republicans -   
   the liberal ones, of course - suck too.  But the system ruins even the best   
   intentioned conservatives.  The left has so ginned the system that it is   
   virtually impossible to consistently vote conservative (small government)   
   principles and stay in office.  If you don't "bring home the bacon" when it   
   comes to federal spending, the voters will find someone who does.  And in   
   this way spending is inexorably ratcheted up.  (The economist Walter   
   Williams has written some good articles on this subject.)   
      
   Then there's progressive taxation, which allows those who pay no taxes to   
   impose more taxes on those who do for benefits that favor mostly the poor.   
   And last, and worst, there's Social Security and Medicare, whose   
   constituents vote in the greatest proportion of any group.  We all know (at   
   least those of us with I.Q.s in the triple digits) that these programs are   
   unsustainable and are going bankrupt.  We all know that these represent a   
   transfer of wealth from poor and middle class workers to the largely well   
   off elderly (talk about Robin Hood in reverse).  But nothing can ever be   
   done about them because the recipients are so powerful and because the   
   Democrats obstruct even the slightest reform, such as allowing current FICA   
   "contributors" (ha!) to put a measly 1 or 2% of their money into their very   
   own account.   
      
   And that was the fatal mistake - allowing people to vote themselves the   
   proceeds of other peoples' work.  The constitution was set up to prevent   
   that - at least on the federal level.  But left wing Democrats, largely   
   starting with FDR, destroyed those protections.   
      
   So here we are.  Can anything be done?  I'm not optimistic, largely because   
   the left controls the media and academia, and they have destroyed the old   
   American love of liberty and it's been replaced by love of security -   
   provided by a nanny state.  And all too many Americans are happy as pigs in   
   you know what - for now.  )On the other hand, only 1/3 of the people   
   supported the first American Revolution.)   
      
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