conservatives are angry with  bush supposed fixing of medicare. do they want the elderly to die?
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They think that the elderly should work until they drop. \n\nIt's the pull yourself up by your boostraps mentality. If you can't take care of yourself it's not their problem or the government's problem.
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I agree with your assesment! Those Republicans seem so old, and hagard looking.\n\nThe 1st step of Repiblican recovery is admitting you are one.
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Well poor dumb George can least have pappy Bush tell everyone how honest he is.  George Senior is either just as stupid or has Alzheimers, but truth is they are both war mongers and they both should have never been allowed to procreate.\n\nIf would have fixed George senior 60 some years ago we wouldn't have the scenario we have today.\n As far as Dick Cheney he pulls the strings, he also made a lot of blunders as the CEO of Haliburton.  And maybe you should check how nice of man Dick Cheney is as well as Jeb Bush.\n\nCheck this link:\n\nhttp://www.newamericancentury.org/\nalso check whos names are on the "Statement Of Principles" section.
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People against Bush are tired of the Neo-cons lying their way into power, eating the country from the inside out, and making what was once the gleaming gem nation of the world a third-world joke.\n\nWe are tired of watching our children's life blood and our nation's economic health being poured out in the name of bringing our style of freedom to a country who could care less whether or not they have it -- a country who will throw it away when we leave before the last plane lands back here.  We feel that while Sadam was a bad guy, he was not worth the life of a single US soldier, let alone 3000.\n\nWe are tired of the most powerful man in the world being someone who was never elected, who outed a covert CIA agent in a time of war and who is more worried about the profits of Haliburton than whether or not the United States will still stand in 50 years.  (Yeah, I know Shrub got some votes, I'm now talking about Karl Rove, the puppetmaster who has his hand up the dummy's back).\n\nWe are tired of an Austrailan who stands to make more money if America goes down (Rupert Murdoch) controlling the minds of the half of the population with an IQ below 100 with his Fox News liars.\n\nBush is the symptom of a horrible, disfiguring disease that this country has contracted.  In 100 years, assuming that people still have the intelligence to read, historians will wonder what the heck we were thinking electing a moron to the highest office in the land.\n\nOf course, I'm sugar coating my real opinion.
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I think the Republicans are going to make weekly bathing mandatory countrywide.\n\nPeople in San Fransisco and among communes are PISSED.
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Well if they're smart, I'm glad I'm not.  As to who's crying now, the whole country should be, with the mess we're in thanks to the Republicans.  The whole world hates us, we're paying higher prices for fuel than ever in history, we attacked a country for reasons based on lies, we failed to capture Bin Laden (how many of you are aware of the Bush family ties to the Bin Laden family?)our economy is shot to heck, poor people have lost many, many Medicaid benefits (did you know in Missouri Medicaid won't pay for canes for blind people?) we have an apparently insurmountable problem with illegal immigrants (Bush's solution is make them pay a fine of $2000, then take a test and if they pass, they stay) and we have the biggest deficit in the history of the country.  When Republicans took over, we had the largest SURPLUS in the history of the country.  Lord, am I glad I'm not smart like the Republicans.
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Social security was a bad fix for a problem a LONG time ago.  You can thank the new deal for this horrible system we have today.  Your social security that you pay for does not go into some big fund that grows until you retire, instead it is instantly used up to pay for current retirees.  This works as long as you have more working adults than retirees, a situation that might not always be the case. (Especially if we continue to let in illegals, and then give them amnesty, more people able to draw retirement who didn't pay into it, sounds fair to a liberal!)\n\nHow do we reform the system, there are a lot of ways!  But nothing will get done if every time it is even mentioned every single democrat without thinking yells "Stop taking money from the elderly!"  They will oppose any effort at reform in any social program, so I guess our only hope is to stop electing democrats.\n\nNotice I didn't say electing republicans was the answer either, try electing some independents who support your issues! The 2 party system is quite possibly the worst thing to happen to our beautiful democracy.
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Neither party believes in what they say they believe in.  Conservatives spend less yet Reagan and both Bushs ran huge deficits.  The Democrats aren't much better.  Jimmy Carter made George W. Bush look sane as far as many of his domestic and international policies and of course Middle Eastern terrorism against Americans started on Carter's.  The Rebublicans have moderates, liberals and believe it or not homosexuals, while the Democrats have moderates and conservatives including those that still back Bush on Iraq.\n\n\nHere is basically what the conservatives stand for (and you will see where this is going to go).\n1. They want more of a confederacy style government where states have more power and the federal government is weaker.  Just ignore the federal conservatives trying to outlaw abortion and gay marriages.  Those aren't real conservatives.\n2. They want the government to stay out of people's business as in things such as wiretaps, gay marriages, abortion ect.\n3. They want to tax less and spend less. Just ignore those deficits.\n4. They are pro police/punishment.  The death penalty is one of their platforms. Just ignore the extra 100,000 police that Clinton wanted, because the Republican party did.\n\n5.  They still have isolationist tendancies (they hate international treaties and the U.N.), so ignore that Democracy through force policy.
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See you can see they are still all pissed on here... they say the "facts are out there" about Iraq.. .and then they cite a bias blog that has no links to any real facts... \n\nThey say we have no plans... yet Clinton balanced the budget and was close to to making real progress on the debt (which they say was because of a Republican congress, but oh the democratic congress didn't have anything to do with the success in the 80s?)... \n\nnow they are getting close to doubling the debt and Iraq is in shambles and WE have no plans? \n\nIn short... they cite blogs, we site stats... then they get mad when we don't believe the blogs and then they won't talk about stats... \n\nThey think Rush is telling the truth, with no evidence... we like evidence and links... \n\nThey are mad because that's all they have left... it's all they can do... they try to encite fear with "they are dangerous to this country"... look back in history... sound familiar?\n\nmymadsky: Kerry had a VERY DETAILED PLATFORM that dealt with many of these issues... perhaps you should pay attention... I don't see Bush's plan anywhere.... who has the plan again?
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I agree with the answerer that said Medicare is screwed up. My dad has been on it for years. He can't do the paperwork. I guess all the ills in the World are the Dems fault. (Sarcasm alert) The Reps will get the pharmaceutical industry's full support. I'm not a fan of the Dems, but the US has to vote for someone better in '08. I'm thinking brother Jeb will run then. In 2000, after King Shrubby II was given the election, I predicted he'd win reelection and Jeb would run and win in '08 and get reelection in '12. I won't underestimate the stupidity of the American voter like I did in 2000. I thought they were smarter than to vote for a second Bush mistake. I'd bet money that Jeb will run and win. I certainly hope I'm wrong.
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The biggest problem is that it will take my family's, family's, family, to even get close to balancing the debt of this Administration since they wont contribute to America. Selfishness and greed are not the agendas of the Democrat party's politics. Clinton cleaned up their mess from Ronald Regan/George Bush seniors years, in 5 years with reserves. They are just mad and scared they will have to contribute. Well I say if they don't want to then they can leave America and live in Iraq. Americas Democrat soldiers are also tired of cleaning up the Neo_Con's messes.
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Not really. The fact is those who bash the liberals want the truth to be known. They are sick and tired of age-old, worn out ideas that cost us billions of dollars of tax money and then don't work!
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The hypocricy of the right wing knows no limitations.  They want the illegal immigrants out of the country but who is going to build their houses, cut their lawn, build new highways and roadways for them to use, wash their dishes, and countless other jobs that illegal immigrants do.\n\nAnd then they complain, bitch, and whine about the illegal immigrants getting social security.  I just wonder why they should care.  With government spending at an all time high under the Republican majority, social security is going to be gone in a few years anyway if things don't change.  So why should they care?  They're spending trillions and trillions on wars which will be the reason social security goes bankrupt.  If they were really so concerned about social security they need to be more upset at the government spending all of it's money.
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You know, every president has to live with the financial legacy of the president before him.  I am so sick of the "lets point fingers" game.  Hell, lets play, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.  \n\nI hate staunch Republicans that over educated with no real ideas of their own.  Yet, I hate democrats with an education that suffer from low self esteem.\n\nReally confusing actually....\n\nYou know what I want a comprehensive health care plan, independence from foreign oil, stem cell research, more funding towards education and the assholes in office to stop spending social security dollars.  They should act as if it really is for retirement instead of using this lame ass excuse like national debt to drain the retirement fund of America.  They are draining funds from hard working Americans that have been under the impression it would be there for them.\n\nWhy don't you people watch some PBS for a change or read a few books.  Our government is going to hell and we are voting for them.  Go figure?\n\nWe need radical changes and we need them now!!!!!\n\n\nThank you
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You obviously have no concept of conservatism.  Not only do conservatives not steal from the poor, they donate billions of dollars a year to charities to help the poor.\n\nConservatives don't like the social security system because it is broken.  Whereas a person can earn 4% interest in a savings account, social security is earnining less than 1% interest.  See the problem?  The people, especially the poor, are getting screwed in this deal.\n\nConservatism is a set of beliefs, a primary one of which is that you need to set up systems to allow people to help themselves.  If you just keep handing out money to the poor, they will always be poor.  You're not giving them the tools to get out of poverty.  So just keep handing out money and assuring generational poverty.  Liberalism is actually much, much crueler to the poor than is conservatism.\n\nI know hundreds of Republicans and conservatives (not always the same thing).  None of them are wealthy, many aren't religious, and not a single one of them is stealing from the poor or trying to harm the poor.\n\nAnd by way, insulting conservatives with all your little talking points and phrases doesn't help the poor climb out of poverty.  It just exposes your ignorance and irrational hatred.
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You are a darling.  I think that the government is trying to cut down on the population.  Bush and his cohorts only care about their own agenda, and watch out for the next war in Iran.  The senior's are not only losing their healthcare coverage, but they are being taxed twice on their incomes.  Once when they earn it, and again when they take it out of any of their personal retirement plans.  That's why a lot of seniors retire to the Bahamas.  So that the government can't get their hard earned money twice.
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This is one of the big issues that conservatives DO have with President Bush and the GOP Congress. Their lavish and unconstitutional spending. "No Child Left Behind" and the Mediscam prescription giveaway and the undisciplined earmarking are all issue that conservatives have with the GOP and Bush.\n\nSame with the Senate bill for clemency and amnest for illegals.\nSame with Congress' failure to make the tax cuts permanent.\nSame with Contress' failure to implement Bush's sensible Social Security reforms.\nEtc.\n\nThose are not the actions of conservatives.