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I'm white & I've had the 18% added & I didn't have to immediately reach for a tampon.

Are there people who can't get free birth control?

Leave it to a liberal to begrudge hard working middle class people their pay that they earned. Waiters get paid on the honor system & some people have no honor.

I hate that.

Is that so unreasonable?

Who is waging war on the mothers?

My mom is a moderate who isn't very political & she said she didn't understand how anyone who heard that speech could vote for Obama. That's not been my experience

Kids deserve to have a dad.

Black, female, and conservative is a Republican's wet dream.

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We've been over this, Dave. Taking tax money from the wealthy and creating meaningless government jobs is no different from sending those people welfare checks. Every dollar the government spends is money taken out of the economy. And while some federal government programs do add value, the overwhelming majority of money that flows through government is essentially wasted. All of that money represents resources siphoned out of the economy. There's no way around it. Can you explain your theory about how taxing BUSINESS (I never said the rich; plus you guys advocate raising taxes on income, not wealth) creates jobs? (and by jobs I mean productive jobs that create value proportionate to their cost)

Let's be honest. Nobody's campaigning on what they'll do for the poor. They're all campaigning on what they'll do for the middle class. And the middle class gets better off when business is booming and jobs are plentiful. You're not going to get that from a government program.

Yeah, I didn't even think of that. God knows how much we waste with our absurd energy policies.

In short, resources will be more efficiently allocated, it will be easier and less costly to do business, competition will flourish both internally due to lack of protectionist (for big corporations) regulations, and competition will flourish internationally because the U.S. will become a more attractive place (less costly relative to alternatives) to do business. It will also force people to produce to recieve, and it will allow inefficient business to be driven out by it's more efficient competitors. This is a VERY brief explanation. To explain in full would take many many pages.

So as not to write a manifesto here I'll just give you the general points. First, I'd reform entitlement programs by weaning people off of ss, medicare, and the like. I'd strengthen work requirements for Federal welfare programs. Reduce and/or eliminate most corporate and farm subsidies (which also would be a weaning process) I'd lower corporate taxes to make the U.S. more competetive in a global economy (and they would be long-run cuts; none of this temporary Keynesian stimulus bull ****). I'd gut the regulatory agencies and put rational people in charge - people who understand the concept of cost-benefit analysis and aren't interested in building regulatory barriers to isolate big business from competition. That's just for starters. If I've got unchecked political power I'm also looking to eliminate the IRS (constitutional amendment against income tax) and work to implement something more along the lines of the fair tax. I would gradually privatize the student loan industry, and seriously consider weakening, if not outright abolishing, the Fed (I need to learn more about this before taking drastic action). I could go on, but that's plenty for you people to chew on for a while.

My problem with the Republicans is that they're not extreme enough (at least when it comes to economics). This accusation gets thrown around a lot but I never see it substantiated except for the occassional fringe retard like Akin. I'd love to hear, just once, someone tell me what is so extreme about the Republican platform. Basically, Republicans are Socialist Lite. They're so deathly afraid of pushing for real solutions because ever since Clinton won through triangulation they've thought trying to straddle the middle with a little conservatism sprinkled in will get them elected. When Bush passed his idiotic Medicare prescription bill so many Republicans touted the political genius of it (which backfired) which made me wonder, if our guy is going to do what they're guy wanted to do anyway, what's the value of having our guy win? Some issues I outright disagree with the party on are drug prohibition, farm subsidies, federal involvement in education (although they've backed off since the abortion known as No Child Left Behind - another politically genius move of Bush to let Ted Kennedy write an education bill and then hang the albatross around his own neck). Basically, when it comes to economics we've got 2 parties, one hard left and one soft left. There is no fiscally conservative or libertarian party. The accusations of extremism are laughable at most. The only extremists are the straw men morons like Warwow build up to tear down.

He got his basketball gene from his mom.

Speaking to that issue, some of these guys really are crazy. Some want to ban R-rated movies, porn, force people to sit idle on Sunday, etc. A lot of these guys are no different in principle than lefties in that both want to impose their will on others in areas that are none of their !@#$ing business. What gets me is when one person makes a comment, it's misconstrued, and it's then applied with a broad brush to every Republican. Akin is a good example - The guy says something stupid, everyone agrees it was stupid, but because they agree with him on other aspects of the issue it is assumed as fact that they necessarily agree with his every word. Birth control is a better example - Conservatives defend the Catholic church's right to abstain from providing birth control to employees and all of a sudden they're against birth control. But if I defend their stance, I'm said to defend an anti-birth control stance as opposed to defending a pro-choice stance.

These guys should write for The Onion.

Remind me never to snap you the ball.

She needs to be put back in her place. She was gettin uppity.

I'm actually not a huge Cantor guy. I'll vote for him but I didn't in 08. Funny seeing Santorum pitch Romney after basically saying he's no better than Obama.

Thanks, bub. Good lookin out. I sometimes watch cable news when I visit my parents but it's more frustrating than watching the Bills.

I don't get Fox News

- I didn't say we should do nothing. I said doing nothing would have been preferable to what's been done. - For the last 2 years the agencies have cranked out regulations undetered. So have executive orders. - For the last 2 years the effects of Obama's policies have rippled through the economy. - I assume you weren't decrying this kind of politics when Dems were filibustering W's judicial appointments. - You dodged my last question.