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I am a Canadian "Right Winger" an avid and greatful Fox News Enthusiast. Fair and balanced reporting at last. If you and your readers want all the things you describe why not move to Canada. Fewer democtrats in America would be a good thing for the security of our Canadian and US way of life. Leave the adults in charge of the world and move to Canada where you may be considered to the right of many Canadians. "The US far left" is the equivalent of the tail trying to wag the dog. It simply falls on it's own weight. This is a law of physics. It is not your fault. Dennis Miller evolved into a Republican. There is hope for the rest of you. Please join us? We are right!

posted by swooperman  12:08 PM   [+]

 

I could only stomach so much of that kind of misguided verbal self-delusional diatribe.

Thinking that a "main street" poll is even a hint of what the general population believes just goes to show how the speaker is willing to only take statistics that agree with his view and spout them as factual and impartial.

To imply that military family survivor benefits were somehow a liberal instigated idea is insane. Receiving "benefits" (just money) for the surviving family that should have been provided by the deceased soldier is not a "liberal" position; it's a basic moral one that both the left and right have no problem supporting.
Nearly your entire list of supposed "liberal" benefits (clean water, safe medicine, clean air, food standards, public education, and the FDIC ["FDIC Insurance" is reasonably redundant]) are also supported and required by the "conservatives" too. It's hard to live somewhere without such things because the workforce would be sick, weak, dumb, and poor and financial stability couldn't exist, even for the "people who unfairly hold a disproportionate amount of the wealth” (read: people who have generally taken a risk, over-worked themselves to get started, provided jobs to non-risk takers, actually make the money to pay the nearly all of the taxes in the US [personal, corporate, employee, SS], and have reaped the rewards of their risk taking / innovation / sweat equity)

Again, calling the interstate highway system a “liberal concept” is very deluded. The interstate highway system was a military invention to allow their equipment fast access around the US in time of war. If we were attacked on land by a foreign military force, just see how quickly the military would shut down the “liberal” interstate highway system for their exclusive use, as it was originally designed for.

Next thing you know, the “liberals” will claim the internet was one of their concepts for people to get access to information and communication. Of course, we all know (except probably for the incredibly deluded speaker and other liberals that really can’t claim many major positive accomplishments by the left) that the underlying technology and concepts of the internet was yet another invention of the military originally called the DARPANET.

Social Security is a liberal concept that they can claim success on implementing. Of course, it is one of the most ineffective, poorly run and deployed government controlled financial programs ever! The amount of money people receive is barely subsistence when it starts and becomes even less of a real living income stream over the years as inflation increases the cost of living faster than SS compensates for it. Plus, as more liberal politicians continue to discover other reasons to dip into SS rather than using it for its original purpose (only to provide retirement income to contributors after they reach retirement age), the moral upper ground in even this most sacred plank of the liberal platform is becoming so rotted that even they are starting to back away from it.

The liberals have a whole basketful of wonderful, pie-in-the-sky ideas that sound so warm and fuzzy but they don’t seem to understand what it would take to put any of them together in a coherent way that might actually work. Again, the difference between feeling it’s a good idea and knowing if it’s an idea that can work and what it takes to make it work.

As the saying goes, “If you’re not a liberal when you’re young, you have no heart. If you’re not conservative when you become an adult, you have no brain.” Which are you?

posted by Anonymous  1:56 PM   [+]

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