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To: Seruzawa; melancholy; True Republican Patriot; michigander; Jeff Head
"When republicans stop bankrupting the nation with insane spending, I will be willing to entertain evidence that they have compassion for kids...or anybody"

Would you be willing to list all of the alledged "insane spending" you are referring you? I would very much like to look into this.

Thank you very much!

Nancee

258 posted on 11/13/2006 4:20:42 PM PST by Nancee ((Nancee Lynn Cheney))
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To: Nancee
There are two main areas of spending the Republicans need to address: the first is earmarks. They're ridiculous. Kill them. You can see a lot of this nonsense at FedSpending.org. Among other things, you'll find Holiday Inn gets subsidies to build hotels. America is supposed to be a free market, capitalist society - Holiday Inn can raise the damn money themselves.

The second area is entitlements. Medicare and Social Security need to be privatised as soon as possible - I suggest Social Security is going to have to be eased out slowly, an expensive process, but a necessary one. Expansion of the drug benefits did not help.

Regards, Ivan

260 posted on 11/13/2006 4:23:52 PM PST by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: Nancee; MadIvan

MadIvan is accurate as usual, but I'd like to note the following, which Seruzawa and so many others fail to grasp:

The spending on the part of the GOP is a violation of the party's principles. Libertarian Party support of abortion on demand is an expression of their principles, even though their reverence for the individual should put them on the side of protecting life.

The victims of the GOP spending got their revenge on Tuesday by voting them out of the majority. The victims of abortion will never get any chance for recompense in this world.

If I had a choice between raising someone's taxes and ripping their limbs off, I would raise their taxes. If I had a choice between having my own taxes raised and having my limbs tisted off, I would pay the tax.

Even if Republicans really were ideologically driven to spend and grow government, their views would not be remotely as repugnant as the idea that one can dismember a small child and call it a right.

A lack of fiscal responsibility is hardly equivalent to forty million dead kids thrown out in the trash, but the Libertines will tell you it is.


271 posted on 11/13/2006 10:22:47 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (Welcome swingers! Pull up a groove and get fabulous!)
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To: Nancee

Oh, please. The Fed govt spends almost one million dollars per year per citizen. That's insane.

You true believers are really easy marks.


284 posted on 11/14/2006 3:44:52 PM PST by Seruzawa (Marx's Das Kapital never could compete with the Sears catalog.)
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