Posted on 11/23/2004 7:24:56 AM PST by alessandrofiaschi
Edited on 11/23/2004 7:38:52 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
It's a nightmare to read with all the random symbols and numbers.
Very good read. Thanks.
Good article. The Democrats are literally becoming the party of those who believe in two things: growth of government and zero growth in the rest of the country.
I have a request: next time post text rather than copying HTML and pasting it.
OK
Much better the second time my friend, and Welcome to FreeRepublic! Great article.
I'm not trying to ridicule anyone, but I see this a lot.
What happens is that you are copying with one browser and pasting borwser specific code into a generic forum. People with other browsers see the HTML code instead of the intended formatting.
The quick way around this is to paste the copied material into a text editor like Notepad, then copy to FR from that. You lose formatting, but you preserve the intended text.
One of President Bush's recent speeches said something like, "We are in a contest for the future."
And he's right.
Americans look for opportunity. In the early days of America much of the opportunity was in the West.
Now it looks like there are opportunities in the Middle East.
And Space.
I read it in the original. the Economist makes the point that the "red" states have more economic growth than the blue states, and the people who live there have a lot more children. Rather a different take than to say that the "red" states are all the former "slave" states [which itself is not really true].
It is interesting that the reflexivly counter-cultural weekly rag "San Francisco Guardian", in discussing the effect of "moral values" on the elections, made a point similar to that made in the Economist article: San Francisco, for all of its liberal "right thinking" attitudes, is pretty short on even the "forgiving" aspects of Christian morality [never mind the "responsibility" side of the coin]. The article suggested that San Franciscans, the bluest of the blue, hold all the right "progressive" attitudes, but refuse to couple those attitudes with actual works. Instead, they are opposed to allowing new lower and even middle income housing, and even housing for retirees and the elderly, so as to keep the "rif-raff" out.
The result is a stagnating city bent on maintaining the status quo, a dwindling number of new families, and a dwindling number of children. All in the interest of "progress", of course.
“There aren't many Tom Joads in the exurbs,” says Marshall Wittmann of the Democratic Leadership Council. “If you're fighting for anything, it's probably a parking space.”
Holy cow! A very funny line from liberal political hack! And it’s intentionally funny!
Wonders never cease.
(and kudos to whoever fixed the formatting)
Ayn Rand called it decades ago: liberals believe in the "right to stagnate."
To Democrats, the exurbs might as well be a foreign country inhabited by Homo Redneckus Republicani.
I guess that your voices are not being heard enough then...or maybe, you're not really on the Right side after all.
"In deep-blue cities such as San Francisco and Seattle you find more dogs than children."
I find that astounding.
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