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To: tejek who wrote (482147)	5/19/2009 3:46:40 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573901

and everyone is trying to get in this country

To: tejek who wrote (482147)	5/19/2009 4:11:12 PM
From: TimF	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573901

The US military budget is the largest in the world. And has been most years, maybe even every year since the middle of WWII. That's not moving more to the right. Since the defense budget is a smaller part of GDP and a smaller part of government spending in the past it is rather the opposite. We are the only first world country without universal health care. Depends on how you define universal care, but ignoring the complexities and assuming arguendo that your statement is correct - Again it doesn't represent a move to the right. CAFE standards are the lowest in the West. I notice a trend here. You seem to be confusing "is less socialist/liberal/progressive" than Europe" with "has moved to the right". But really they are two entirely different concepts. There is a constant battle over environmental laws A battle isn't a move. that lead to rollbacks when Republican administrations take over. Finally you make a relevant argument. False, but at least its relevant. Such a rollback could arguably be considered a move to the right. The problem with your argument is that there is almost never such a rollback, and there has not been one in recent years. For example, compare year 7 of Clinton's presidency with year 7 of Bush's. Environmental regulations where more extensive and strict in the later. Or look to Eisenhower, or Nixon or Bush I and you'll see additional regulation and additional regulatory burden, both overall and specifically covering environmental issues. During the Reagan administration there where some specific rollbacks but overall there was still an increase in regulation during the whole eight years. We are behind in stem cell research. We are behind in the development of alternative fuel development. We have the weakest gun control laws among first world countries. True or not, they are completely irrelevant to the assertion that we have moved to the right. I'll do you a favor and make one true and relevant argument for you, since you failed to do so. Our gun control laws being less draconian than in other countries is irrelevant to the "moved to the right" issue, but overall our gun control laws have probably gotten a bit more liberal (in the sense of being less restrictive, not in the sense of more along the lines of what "progressive" Democrats want) in recent years. That could be considered a move to the right (at least in the US, in other countries with a history of authoritarian right wing gun control not so much).

To: tejek who wrote (482147)	5/25/2009 11:30:51 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573901

The USA is not perfect but it is better than anything else currently out there. If America did not have the largest military in the world to back American style capitalism you would be overrun by people like Kim Jong-il. Long live the USA... "When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed." AYN RAND