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To: ManyMoose who wrote (64043)	5/7/2008 11:13:31 AM
From: KonKilo	Respond to of 542243

I don't know where I am on the political spectrum. On some issues, I would be center; others, between there and far right. I think there are a number of us in that same boat with you. I am about as socially liberal as they get, but am far more fiscally conservative than most conservatives. There is no party for me.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (64043)	5/7/2008 12:30:46 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 542243

Many Moose, re: "I don't know where I am on the political spectrum. On some issues, I would be center; others, between there and far right." C'mon now, surely there's one little teensey issue where you lean to the left? Maybe you support social security for the elderly, or maybe you think union people have the right to organize, or maybe you think the government has some obligation to feed the most destitute or guarantee the treatment of poor children with major medical issues...surely something??? But what's the point of labeling issues either right or left? Are you worried that if you accept one piece of alluring logic that's left leaning then the floodgates will open and you'll become a card carrying communist? And maybe the country will suddenly join the axis of evil? In all seriousness, I just don't see the point of labeling issues either right or left. Why not simply address the merits of each issue independently and see whether the cost benefit considerations support one side or the other. Many issues considered right make excellent sense to me and many considered left make excellent sense to me. Using universal health care as an example, what is the argument for not providing some measure of regular health care for the poorest among us? Should beautiful, hopeful, innocent children or their parents be dying in our country simply because their parents are economically unsuccessful? Is that a left versus right issue? And with respect to the rest of us who can afford health insurance or health care, what is the argument for not intervening in an expensive and inefficient health care delivery system to streamline the process, what is the argument for not reducing the huge inefficiencies of a system that sends millions of poor to emergency rooms at high costs and raising the price of care for all of us? The current system is totally out of sync, why not try something to change that system? All this branding and labeling of issues as left or right in a black or white sense is simply a ploy to get people to shut down critical thinking skills and accept dogma. We should be wiser than that. Ed