On Nov 3, 4:33*am, "jmcquown" > wrote:
> "Dan Abel" > wrote in message
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> > Cindy Hamilton > wrote:
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> >> On Nov 1, 8:21 pm, NOYDB <ljlameres at acd.net> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 09:33:04 -0700, (Michael
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> >> > America) wrote:
> >> > >get the democRATS out of there. they plan on taking over the ontrol of
> >> > >all food.
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> >> > Vote the straight libertarian ticket. A pox on both their
> >> > houses!!!!
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> >> I used to be a Libertarian. *Then I grew up and realized that
> >> most people are too dumb to pour **** out of a boot, and
> >> thus cannot act from enlightened self-interest.
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> > Not just stupid, but I think apathy is big, also. *Just this morning
> > someone was boasting about how they weren't going to vote, because they
> > had just moved to the state. *Just moved? *How many years ago? *Can't
> > pick up the local paper for a few minutes and see who they are
> > recommending (or look at their web site if they don't want to pay for
> > the paper)? *They better not start posting here about corrupt local
> > politicians!
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> > Dan Abel
> > Petaluma, California USA
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> If you want to talk about me, why not mention me by name? *I wasn't
> "boasting" about anything. *Picking up the local paper doesn't tell me
> anything. *Have you ever *read* the Beaufort Gazette? *Thirty pages about
> nothing! *And BTW, for two of those years I was rather busy dealing first
> with my father who had dementia and didn't even recognize me. *Second, my
> mother who, when he died was a complete mess (they were married 57 years)..
> She was ill herself, then she broke her hip and went down from there. *I was
> basically a housekeeper, doing all the shopping, cooking and cleaning.
> Paying medical bills and dealing with settling first his then her estates..
> I wasn't paying attention to local politics, except to know Governor Mark
> Sanford was screwing some chick in Argentina. *So I'm terribly sorry, Dan,
> but I don't *know* who the local politicians are. *I won't vote a straight
> ticket, Democratic or Republican, without having some sense of what they're
> representing. *It's not apathy. *It's wanting to make an informed choice.
> And I admit, I'm not informed. *So I didn't vote for anyone.

How could ANYONE not understand the positions of the Democratic and
Republican parties?
In general:

DEMS GOP

*pro-legal abortion *anti-legal abortion
*assume the poor need support *assume the poor are lazy
*believe in progressive taxation *believe in a flatter tax or
no income tax
at all
*allied with organized labor *hostile to organized labor
*believe in less privatization *believe in more
privatization
of government services of government services
*pro-social security, Medicare, *anti-social security,
Medicare,
Medicaid, childrens' health care Medicaid, childrens' health
care
*emphasize environmental *de-emphasize environmental
concerns concerns
*accused of being socialists *accused of being fascists
(a huge exaggeration) (a huge exaggeration)
*believe in more separation *believe in less separation
of church and state of church and state
*Keynesian economics *Classical economics


Is that enough? I tried being as objective in my language as
possible, to the point that I wrote something that I disagree with,
that being using the word "huge" for the Republicans as far as fascist
values. Republicans are more fascist than Democrats are Socialist.
It's not like any of this has changed in the past thirty years other
than to become more true. Have you been living under a rock that
entire time?
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> Jill

--Bryan