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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (1710)	2/11/2004 10:31:39 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Why would he a Republican president present a budget with a deficit of that magnitude. Is it the politics of the political season? You know full well. Both parties play the game. One hand picks your pocket and the other doles a small part of it back as pork to buy your vote. Bushes deficit budget proposals are utterly irresponsible and, at the same time, the Democrats yowling demands for their new found religion of fiscal austerity are likewise the epitome of hypocritical posturing and political gamesmanship. They both use the monstrosity that's called the "tax code" to reward friends and punish enemies. Political power is a particularly nasty drug, not a victimless crime, as it adversely affects everyone and not just the user (abuser). Whether it's Ashcroft's Orwellian Patriot Act, bedroom police and privacy abuses or the class warfare baiting, redistributionist, politically correct nanny government advocates of the loony left, the attributes they all share in common are power lust, the wish to extract as much of your money as they can get away with, and the desire to control and impose their version of "what's right" on the entire populace. And the sheep continue to line up to get sheared. Baaaahh...