Posted on 11/16/2001 1:19:30 PM PST by Rebeckie
Thanks for the comparison, don't spend too much time over there, it will make you angry beyond proper function.
Call it the 'Mystery of Iniquity'.
You made some excellent points in your essay Rebeckie. Please take it easy on the personal slurs though, because that never helps raise the tone of the country. Someone as obviously thoughtful and intelligent as yourself is definitely capable of a much better response.
While all of the economic gain can not be attributed to Clinton. He certainly can accept part of the credit. He passed a tough economic package that dramatically reduced the deficit by cutting spending and increasing taxes. It was not popular but it worked. This package also allowed Greenspan to maintain lower interest rates He also pushed through the NAFTA and GATT agreements. Organized labor did not like these but they helped create a stronger economy.
The obvious point is that no other president, Democrat or Republican, ever achieved anything close to Clinton's economic success.
To Be A Liberal
To be a liberal, you have to believe the AIDS virus is spreading due to a lack of funding.
To be a liberal, you have to be against capital punishment but for abortion on demand--in short, you support protecting the guilty and killing the innocent.
To be a liberal, you have to believe that a public school system that can't teach 4th graders how to read is capable of teaching those same kids the subtleties of sex.
To be a liberal, you have to believe that trial lawyers are selfless heroes and doctors are overpaid, greedy, bad guys.
To be a liberal, you have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than nuclear weapons in the hands of the Red Chinese.
To be a liberal, you have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical, documented changes in the brilliance of the Sun, and more affected by yuppies driving SUVs.
To be a liberal, you have to believe that gender roles are artificial but being gay is natural.
To be a liberal, you have to believe that the biggest threat to this country are those who believe morals, ethics, and family values are essential.
To be a liberal, you have to believe that punishment for a crime should depend on motive. Killing a person because you dislike them is worse than killing them because you want their money.
To be a liberal, you have to believe that business creates oppression and government creates prosperity.
To be a liberal, you have to believe that killing a child in the womb should be legal, but breaking an eagle's egg should be criminal.
To be a liberal, you have to believe that good intentions are equal to actually accomplishing something.
To be a liberal, you have to believe that the government should provide for those who contribute the least and tax those who work hard and succeed.
To be a liberal, you have to believe that governmental laws and regulations are always the answer, never freedom and competition.
To be a liberal, you have to believe that art would not exist without federal funding.
To be a liberal, you have to believe the military, not corrupt politicians, start wars.
To be a liberal, you have to believe the NRA is bad, because of their support for certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good, because of their support for certain parts of the Constitution.
To be a liberal, you have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides aren't.
To be a liberal, you have to believe that minorities are not capable of making it without your help and conservatives are racists because they believe everyone given opportunity can be an equal.
To be a liberal, you have to believe that cigarettes pose more danger to our kids and our society than illegal drugs.
Liberalism presently holds sway because it aggregates all that is weak, broken and ugly into a wholly self-interested, political constitutency:
If you are lazy, it offers a handout.
If you are stupid, it dumbs down your competition.
If you are shallow, it offers false self-esteem.
If you are confused, it says that certainty is the REAL confusion.
If you are evil, it rewards the denial of guilt.
If you are a liar, it offers "relative" truth.
If you are a slave to sin, it calls your shackles "freedom".
If you are a coward, it offers security based on the sacrifice of others.
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