Quote from jem:
When I was referring to taxes - and smaller govt -- I was were referring to Washington...
I believe you leave out the important part.
In the last 20 years are so we have seen a suicide pact develop between govt employees and mostly democratic state and local candidates. We fund your campaigns and vote for you and you will give us far above market pay increases and insane retirement packages. If you current budget is maxed provide us with even larger benes in the future.
When you couple that program with giving out lots of welfare benes - sucking in deadbeats... you then have a need for more cops fireman teachers, doctors, nurses and social workers...
This death spiral was the blueprint for democrats in CA and other big states like new york... They figured out a way to get elected by destroying our country.
We think those pacts need to be modified to sustainable levels... intelligent govt workers should be in favor of a modification... because they risk it all if there is a total reset.
Quote from Ricter:
I think you are trying to redirect to another issue, (which with your assertion no one is going to disagree with), in order to appear that you've won some point (?) on the anti-tax measures that were in fact defeated across nearly the entire country just months ago.
But moving on to your point about that other issue, I also think you are too young to recall better times, when pensions and other benefits were plausible and promised for both the public and private sector. Probably all you've ever known is... nothing, so I can certainly understand why you begrudge the last of the unions and the last of the pensions. They must seem archaic, like dinosaurs, to you, obstacles on the way to evening us out with the Chinese and Indians.
But you should be content, really; as you never enjoyed the fruits of the old social contracts you have lost nothing.
Quote from Maverick74:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_...tml?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
"He has no fixed principles," Nader said, of Mr. Obama. "He's opportunistic -- he goes for expedience, like Clinton. Some call him temperamentally conflict-averse. If you want to be harsher, you say he has no principles and he's opportunistic."
"He's a con man," Nader continued. "I have no use for him."
Quote from Range Rover:
Obama is a moderate Republican.80 % of his policies are copied from Bush and Romney
Quote from denner:
More and more I'm convinced that you and your fellow Canucks have literally no comprehension of the private sector and the unfair advantages that the public sector has in relation to any small business owner or self-employed individual.