[general_re]

The ideological purists always complain that the pragmatic realists are selling out. Live with me in New York for a while - or Ontario, for that matter - and you soon come to appreciate the virtues of "better than nothing".... ;)

[habs4ever]

I lived under a "true" socialist government from 1991 to 1995.The real, Euro kind of traditional socialist apparatus, and it was a misery,so i know a little thing about what a socialist is and isn't.When the Paleo goes off tarring those to the left of them as socialists,but well to the right of Ralph Nader, well, I say gimme some of that socialism!!

[sauropod]

I used to live in New Yawk. Maryland is worse and i refuse to vote for the "Pubbies" as they are donkeys in elephant clothing here.