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03lightningrocks:

To answer your above post about the differences between liberals and conservatives:

Although the Republican mantra about personal responsibility is well-known,
it's a heck of a way to run an airline when corporate profits belong to the corporation
and its shareholders, but gargantuan losses are socialized to the taxpaying citizens of
the country to absorb.

Who is reponsible for the losses? It's not Joe Workerbee, but Joe has to pay for the
failed risks of the corporations. The companies keep the profits when times are good,
then the same companies expect to be bailed out by DC.

Who is reponsible for this shifting of corporate loss to the citizens? Bush, Jr. started
it at the end of his term, but Obama is continuing it.

It's unsettling to see billions in taxpayer dollars given away over a weekend to corporations
whose failed bets didn't work out, while getting anything substantive done in DC doesn't
happen.

SIA

"Giving the government power and money is like giving
teenage boys a quart of whiskey and the car keys."
P.J. O'rourke

It's a sad state of affairs that the government will always have the power
and our tax money. We the people never seem to agree with what the DC
folks are doing.

Just remember - it's not the left vs. the right. It's the state vs. you.

My 2 cents on Sarah Palin: I think she's an empty vessel without the strength
of core beliefs that 50% + 1 of the electoral college will elect, should she run in 2012.
If her supporters are so strongly behind her, she wouldn't have bailed on her governor-
ship in order to write the book in order to pay off her legal fees. The supporters would
have paid her legal fees as part of the campaign to groom her for the 2012 race.

SIA

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense,
common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

We would all like to have less government, less war, and the accompanying need for less taxes.

But neither Rep or Dem admininstrations show any tendency to move in these directions.

Ronald Reagan ran the deficits sky high but is admired as a Republican saint.

Bill Clinton was villified by the Reps but gave an honest attempt at attacking the deficit.

Obama's gambling that by running the deficits to the moon, he can avoid a depression and get
many people working again. I don't think you can borrow billions from Red China and create
wealth.

The Reps may well take the Presidency back in 2012 based on the public's fear of deficits.
But if they get back in, the deficits of past administrations will not be their problem, so they
will cut taxes, deregulate again, and let the corporate big boys drive our economy off the
cliff again, but in a diferent style than the Dems.

SIA