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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 01:08 PM
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Tax and spend Democrats.
This is a good article that will give you good ammo when the "Tax and Spend Liberals" label is spewed in our direction.

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/editorial/15533307.htm


At least Democrats tax, spend to help others
By David Gambrel
CONTRIBUTING COLUMNIST
Given that I am conservative when it comes to many social issues, I am sometimes asked why I am a Democrat.

While there are many Republican ideas I support and many good people in the GOP, I think Democrats are still the best hope for the average person in America. Contrast the stances of the two parties on many important issues, and I must be a Democrat.

A few years ago, at a family dinner, it was announced that a relative had received a grant from AmeriCorps, former President Bill Clinton's domestic version of the Peace Corps, which was started by another Democrat, John F. Kennedy. AmeriCorps puts college or graduate students to work in some type of community service, allowing them to earn money for school or to pay back qualified student loans.

When I first heard of the program, I thought back to my college days in the early 1980s when student benefits were slashed under a Republican administration. I was one of those casualties so I am very familiar with how supply-side economics "trickles down" to those on the bottom of the economic ladder.

more at link
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beyurslf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 02:23 PM
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1. Better than a "Borrow and Spend Even More Republican. "
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 02:35 PM
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2. At least when Dems spend we get something for our money.
What have we gotten from bush's spending?
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beyurslf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 10:51 PM
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8. I believe it is pushing 3000 service members dead now.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 11:40 PM
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9. I wonder if they did a study to determine at what
number the public would start saying its not worth it. Is it 3, 4, or 5 thousand dead? will it be 40 thousand maimed?

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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 02:40 PM
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3. I always stress: I AM NOT A "FISCAL CONSERVATIVE"
tax and spend?

You're God damned right.

Conservatives believe in helping the rich and only the rich, at the peril of the rest of society.

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justgamma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 03:18 PM
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4. "trickles down"
Loved Harkin's explaination of Pukes trickle down economics.

They believe that if a "sparrow needs more food, they would give the horse more oats"
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 03:59 PM
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6. Ha! That's close to bush's "War on Terror." Saudis attack us
and he attacks Iraq. al Qaeda threatens us, and he takes away our rights.

Fuck him, fuck his junta
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 03:20 PM
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5. The GOP Taxes & Gives Money To Their Corporate Cronies.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 05:49 PM
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7. they are not patriots, they are scum.
A patriot would never harm their own nation.
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