Is the current Republican Party the consummate result of the "Me

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Generation"?

Think about it.

Dems and liberals get blasted for using the concept of spreading the cost (over a large base) of helping social programs. Yes, the "redistribution of wealth" that scares Conservatives.

Like the insurance industry, Dems and Liberals try to spread the cost over a wide number of payers, trying to minimize the cost of preventative measures which, in the long run, probably save the country money.

If money goes into research on how to stop or slow the spread of disease, doesn't that money really prevent an unrealized cost of trying to fight a full-blown epidemic? (I shudder to think what would have happened to the US if diseases like Polio and others were left to "profit motive" in the early part of the 20th century, late part of the 19th).

That being said, the Repubs/Neocons of the past few decades have been to the tune of "cut my taxes - that will help the greater good!".

One thing that people fail to remember is the term "tax shelters". I remember that a lot of tax shelters were set up to avoid paying taxes. This involved, in many cases, SETTING UP A BUSINESS WHICH EMPLOYED PEOPLE! In some cases, sports teams were set up as a tax loss.

Most of the screaming from the Right (neo-right?) is that giving rich people more money will help out the poor. Remember, the refund of the AMT monies gathered since 1987 was supposed to help the "small businesses". Like Ford Motor company. Yes, how many jobs have they laid off since receiving about a billion dollars?

I consider myself left-leaning. Yet I have had the fortune of being able to afford to have work done on my house on two seperate occasions this past year, giving work to a small business. Although my views could be seen in a local paper in the Letters to the Editor, the small businessman I employed had no problem taking my money (and doing a fine job).

I would say that I probably have done more for the local economy that some of these bigger "tax-cut" recipients who probably had everything they needed before the market tanked.

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1. Repiglets are a seperate specie

I call them Homo Americanus Assininus.

The question is, should abortion be mandatory or just strongly encouraged? Of course the Repug gene must be found so that we can identify them in the womb. :evilgrin: