Posted on 01/18/2004 7:35:06 PM PST by Texas_Dawg
Destroying the Democrats by becoming them. Will the "other conservative issues" include Hillarycare? It's a short step further.
"are you going to be paying more money this year from your paycheck for this hike?"
Since the costs of the largest new entitlement since LBJ are not yet being incurred, I am not paying more money. Yet. However, spending is only funded through taxes or deficits. Either way, they get my money by reducing my paycheck or inflating the currency reducing the value of my assets. There is no government spending program that I do not pay for. So, this entitlement is precisely "more money...from your paycheck for this hike."
"Or are you paying the federal government increasingly less money under GWB?" If you are paying less, why do you care?
Dr: "Sorry Mr. Jones, we had to cut off your right leg to save you." Jones: "Thanks for saving my life, doc, but I had a brain tumor. Why'd you cut off the leg?"
I'm paying less temporarily. With massive new entitlements like this for me to fund, I will have to work several additional years before retiring. That theft of my life is not acceptable. Ever.
Now that I've answered your questions, please answer me one. What part of this program do you like: A $2,000,000,000,000.00 perpetual entitlement, shown to be disliked by its beneficiaries, that takes money from poor young working people and gives it to rich retired people?
The only argument I see from you so far is that we defeat Democrats by becoming liberal and selling out conservatism.
Do you hate Ronald Reagan too? His deficits were going to destroy us all as well, remember.
With massive new entitlements like this for me to fund, I will have to work several additional years before retiring. That theft of my life is not acceptable. Ever.
Huh? Sorry, this is not true.
What I like about the program is that it was a smart political move to keep GWB in office and continue to move the political spectrum to the right (as it has in the past 2 decades). Once things are more conservative, the spending can be cut (as it was with a Democrat President having to pass welfare reform after years of Democrats hating this idea).
It puts the "Blue States" in play and from an electoral college standpoint it is better to be at 49% nationwide than 90% in half the states and 12% in the other half (Al Gore's problem).
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