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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: TimF who wrote (39042)11/25/2009 8:32:14 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
What's "liberal" about actually PAYING for our wars?

Haven't we done that (as best we can, in real-time as much as possible) through TAXES and tax increases for every single big war in the entire history of our country (including Vietnam even! I remember the 10% income tax surcharge!) up until Bush *didn't do* that with these latest two wars?

Which, by-the-way, have NOW GONE ON for longer then WW II, or the Korean War, or even the long Vietnam War did... and now exceeds the cost (in real, inflation-adjusted Dollars) of the Vietnam War itself....

So WHAT EXACTLY is "Liberal" and what is "Conservative"???????

I say that actually PAYING (in as close to real-time as can be managed... the generation running the war actually paying for it instead of passing it's costs along to the yet-to-be-born kiddies) for the wars is what is Conservative.

And that sliding-the-costs-along-by-borrowing-it-all is what is "Liberal".
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