Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Failures of the conservative movement.....

I know I'm preaching to the choir; but why are all these republicans so enamored with Fred Thompson?

Is it because he was or is an actor? Like their savior Ronnie?

Is it because he is or was a Southerner? Like Bill Clinton or George Bush tried to e?

Is it because they think he is a conservative or what they think is conservative?

Conservativism has failed miserably since the Reagan years and his tax cuts for the wealthy and devastation of the tax base. Our national infrastructure is collapsing due to the lack of funds allocated to rebuild bridges, schools, sewer systems, airports, interstates, city roads, etc., etc. and etc.

I hear lots of conservatives try to lean on the constitution and say that it did not provide for taxation nor for government agencies. The visionaries that created the grand documents that found and base our government had vision, yet they had no concept of computers, cell phones, road systems with 18 wheel trucks running the length and breadth of our nation, schools for the number of citizens we now have, sewers, water supply, trash pickup, recycling, even the combustion engines that we use every day to power our automobiles to get to and from work were only a bright dream when our country was founded.

So, don't give me this crap about taxes not being in the constitution. The Constitution of the United States of America is a living document. Made to adapt and change with the times as new inventions make our live easier and more difficult.

The next time a conservative republican tells you he doesn't want to pay taxes; tell him or her they can't drive on your highway, use your water system, have his garbage picked up, send his kids to school, buy a tag for his car, operate his business, call the police, call the fire department, call an ambulance, or flush his toilet.


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