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Posted by Steve Guidry on 08/16/06 19:47
You've identified yourself quite well, Bill.
"Bill" <trash@christian-horizons.org> wrote in message
news:AZSdnS84qsbOyH7ZnZ2dnUVZ_sOdnZ2d@golden.net...
> If only that were true! One of the favorites myths in America is that
> conservatives prefer independent, pull yourself up by your bootstraps,
> rugged individualism, while liberals prefer redistribution and equality.
> The truth is, conservatives take their government hand-outs in the form of
> military defense contracts, broadcast bandwidth, tax breaks (like the one
> Exxon recently obtained for oil rights in the Gulf), deregulation (why the
> hell should the gun industry be immune to liability lawsuits for defective
> products, like every other company...)... or, in some cases, like the
> Savings and Loan scandal, in direct cash hand-outs, thank you. Suddenly,
> that $250 a month welfare mother sounds like a bargain, and at least she's
> not socking her wealth away overseas.
>
> Steve Guidry wrote:
>> Despite Buffet's position ( _IF_ he does in fact oppose this), this is
>> one of those issues where one's "position" is - - by and large - -
>> determined by his/her pocketbook : Those with the money want to keep it,
>> those without it want the government to sieze it.
>>
>> It's a clasic liberal/conservative argement : Those liberals without it
>> want to liberate the cash, those conservatives with it want to conserve
>> it.
>>
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