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To: RockyMtnMan
LOL, I have to laugh. Folks you can’t do anything without money in this country.

Not anything close to true.

You are a hedonist. Your lifestyle is centered around pleasures and things.

I spent much of my life living out of two seabags and an alice pack. I am okay with a spartan life. I am not an anomaly among social conservatives.

Now, you may be focussed on trying to fight for money first and social issues as an after thought (that is what it is called when you don't do a thing until all your other goals are achieved) but what you lack the perspective and experience to understand is that social conservatives will intentionally vote for a third party if necccesary to support what we believe are the most important things, and we are quite willing to do that even if we and you lose all of our fancy possessions in the process.

There is a segment of the population you do not comprehend that likes nice things - but not more than unborn children or the right to determine what their kids are taught or who they may have as a room mate or what they are allowed to eat in a restaurant.

We need to have razor sharp focus on the main issues that will destroy this country. Our financial solvency is the number one issue. Social security, medicaid and all other out of control wasteful expenditures will bankrupt us. Then what? No one will care about anything but finding a way to support their families, that is a simple truth.

Victory at the ballot box has always been my plan B. I would like it, but I dont expect it. See living out of two seabags and an alice pack, or dying in combat. That was the way it wen't in the 1770s - through 1783 actually. Although I have done my time, God never guaranteed me a retirement, or a life of peace.

If you look around on veterans day, you will find that I am in no way unique, nor am I some paragon. I simply am representative of a very different value system and set of priorities than you have.

Comptomise is not an option.

281 posted on 11/14/2010 9:20:42 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.8)
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To: MrEdd

I respect your purist vision but politics is a game of chess not checkers. Cause and effect, NO coin means no power. Rome faced serious problems when it couldn’t fund it’s army.

The reality is without money the government shuts down, people go home and wait until congress approves a new budget. There are millions of people that make up our government. You cannot control a government of that size no matter how much you will it to. Politicians tell us what they want to happen, what actually happens is an entirely different matter.

You don’t know anything about me and should be careful mounting a personal attack on this forum.


291 posted on 11/14/2010 9:38:44 PM PST by RockyMtnMan
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