Does anyone remember when "conservative" meant a small, financially solvent and socially inobtrusive government ?
Some conservative ideas I like:
-Legalize drugs.
Because it makes sense to do so. Legalizing drugs would lead to the largest, fastest drop in crime ever seen in America. The incentive for those crimes would be gone.
Billions of dollars would be saved as millions of non-violent drug offenders are released from the Correctional system. Some of that money could be used to treat addicts who want to be clean, some could be used to train and educate ex-inmates, perhaps in former prisons converted to voluntary rehab centers.
I don't use cocaine, heroin , speed, crack etc...but it's not because they are illegal or difficult to get. I just don't want those things .
Would you start using heroin if it were suddenly legal? Of course, there'd be restrictions to protect kids and such, but still...?
I wish adults who did want crack could buy it cheaply at a regulated store- that way, they wouldn't have to steal my car stereo.
- Gay Marriage/Union.
Here's what a real, patriotic Conservative American would say about Gay Marriage:
" Why are you asking me this? It's none of the Government's goddamned business what consenting adults do or who they marry- haven't you ever heard of separation of Church and State?... *sheesh*... plus, marriages are good for the economy. Now wouldja stop asking me stupid questions and give me a hand? I'm trying to rebuild New Orleans over here."
A real conservative knows that the government should stay out of your personal life, but that the government should be prepared to help it's citizens in times of overwhelming crisis- like Katrina.
- Make it here.We need to start learning how to make things again. A real conservative would eliminate government subsidizing of regressive energy and technologies and instead encourage research that would make long term economic sense...solar power may sound like a leftist Hippie idea, but the concept of a government encouraging you to take responsibilty for your own energy use by providing a tax incentive to install solar panels on your property is not a liberal idea. It's just a good idea and it's fiscally conservative- it's designed to save the gubbermint money over the long haul- the environmental aspects are just a bonus, although a real conservative is very aware that to conserve also extends to other things 'Hippies' enjoy, such as water , oxygen and animals.
Maybe we could even build 'Green' cars and export them. Imagine that- America exporting cars again! Let's invent something useful, benign and easy to mass produce -we could convert our land mine factories ( U.S. has not signed the Mine Ban Treaty) into plants that make solar powered refrigerators, windmill parts or something else that isn't land mines.
Right?
6 comments:
i agree..republicans keep saying dems want more government..bullshit..we want less government..we want them out of our womb, our bedroom, and our hospital rooms..fuckers
...don't forget out of our pockets.
i'm on board. i had my car stereo stolen, 3 feckin times. i also had my house emptied one fine sunday morning.
i don't think you can end the war on drugs until you find something new to declare war on.
Yes, I remember when I was taught in school that the conservitive people wanted the law/government to mind their own business. Hmm what happened?
Evangelicals ruin everything. I doubt there is a single true Christian amongst them.
Even I have read and understood Matthew, and I'm a heathen.
I argue this all the time with Republicans. I call them RiNOs (Republican in Name Only) and ask them how the separation of church and state is not a Republican ideal? The truth is the masses are ignorant and easily swayed by propaganda /sigh.
One of the initiatives in Washington state is to repeal our state estate tax. Each person is allotted a $2M tax free amount (so $4M for married couples) and everything above that is taxed in the 10-19% bracket and put into the state's education fund. Farms are exempt. This state estate tax is also written off the federal estate tax. This bill will help approximately 250 uber-rich families in this state financially. The $100M the state earns each year from this tax supports all our schools. The arguments I read supporting this just make me ill, and if our state citizens vote to approve this measure, I'm going to do a self-lobotomy so that I can be as blissfully ignorant.
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