[strategofr]

excellent.

[trubluolyguy]

I love this and intend to send it into my local newspaper editor, maybe they will print it on the opinion page.

[Bacon Man]

Great list and it gave me a new tag line!

[EdReform]

Ping

[shekkian]

Step 13: Buy a handgun and get a concealed carry permit.

[hardworking]

Based on my life experience, including living in Berkeley, I would suggest this adjustment to the steps:

1. Admit you are a liberal

2. Find a Conservative, sit down with him or her, and explain your position as a liberal with clear facts and support those facts with documentation you have researched

3. Immediately purchase a ticket to any of the following countries and pledge to stay there at least six months - Russia, Cuba, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, or Iran

4. Open a checking account and pledge to do the following: no longer accept any monetary assistance from parents, grandparents, strangers, trust funds, social services agencies or charitable organizations, and to not accept any other form of free compensation or assistance. Balance check book monthly.

5. Pledge to read the Wall Street Journal daily

6. Find and acquire a job with a small, privately owned business that is set up as a corporation, preferrably a family-owned business, and learn as much as you can about the operation of the business

7. Join a community committee to clean up parks, repair a children's playground or assist in a charitable soup kitchen and learn about 'government' of any group

8. Visit a farm that produces food and learn about the growing and marketing process of the products produced on that farm

9. Don't inhale, injest, swallow, sniff, chew etc any substance that is not a member of the three basic food groups

10. Enjoy a big plate of spaghetti, enchaladas, weinerschneitzel or any other robust 'ethnic' food that has been contributed to our culture by the immigrants who came to this country and REALLY made a difference through hard work

11. Read several well-written biographies of founders of the U.S., including but not limited to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton.

12. Take a long, hot bath, get a nice shave and haircut, clean and cut your fingernails and put on new clean underwear and clothing that was purchased by you with your earnings from number 6 above, not from your trust fund or other source of 'free' income, and then take a walk down a clean sidewalk in a nice part of any town in the U.S. of A.

Good luck on your recovery.

[fortunecookie]

Step 4: Take a college level economics class A Socialist is defined as someone who's never taken an economics class. Most Socialists have a hard time balancing their checkbooks, let alone explaining the simple concept of supply-and-demand.

This step is soooo important. So many who criticize Reagan's trickle down plan clearly lack any understanding of econ. After my first economics class, Reagans plan (he was in office then) seemed so obvious and simple.

[brooklyn dave]

Curtis I have to copy this It's hilarious

[Thrusher]

I would propose an addendum to Steps 4 and/or 7: Get a job that pays anything more than minimum wage. Sit down with your paycheck and a calculator. Compare your "gross" pay to your "net" pay. Admit to yourself that the "gross" pay is actually the amount of money you earn as a result of all the hard work you do, and the difference between that and your "net" pay is what the government takes from you to send to dictators and warlords in Africa and South America so that they can buy more guns to kill more of their own countrymen. And remember: there is no Social Security trust fund or lock-box... that money is going to build boondoggles in big cities so congressmen can get reelected.

[FreedomPoster]

That's a keeper bump.