RE: There Will be Blood
November 22, 2010 at 10:47 pm
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2010 at 10:49 pm by DeistPaladin.)
Republicans were elected in 2010 on five major platform points:
1. Cut taxes
2. Reduce the deficit
3. Cut spending, except for defense, social security, medicare and anything else significant
4. Reduce government involvement
5. The government should do something to create jobs
Needless to say, 1 and 2 can't be done at the same time. 4 and 5 also conflict with each other (should the government do more or less?). And the conservative pipe dream that there's hundreds of billions of dollars of waste and liberal pork that can be cut is just that.
Not a good situation. The voters in this last election reminded me of a quote I once heard about how the worst are fired up with conviction.
God help us! ...oh right...
1. Cut taxes
2. Reduce the deficit
3. Cut spending, except for defense, social security, medicare and anything else significant
4. Reduce government involvement
5. The government should do something to create jobs
Needless to say, 1 and 2 can't be done at the same time. 4 and 5 also conflict with each other (should the government do more or less?). And the conservative pipe dream that there's hundreds of billions of dollars of waste and liberal pork that can be cut is just that.
Not a good situation. The voters in this last election reminded me of a quote I once heard about how the worst are fired up with conviction.
God help us! ...oh right...
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
