Yeah but even right/left are very misleading. Consider: Both major party candidates have Illuminati written all over them. Both Skull & Bones (occult good-ole-boys secret club). If you peruse www.savethemales.ca (Dr. Makow's site) you get more authoritative and in-depth info on John and George. Either will be a disaster for this country as President - George probably a little less quickly than John. But a majority of Americans still buy into the "left" "right" fiction (no offense intended).
And the economy? Again no offense... but I just want to scream "catch up catch up catch up". Greenspan and the Fed (a PRIVATELY OWNED central bank, NOT A GOVT AGENCY) control the economy. Greenspan deliberately sank the economy in 1999-2000 with 8 interest rate hikes. He knows we are close to depression in this country, but is raising them again for "appearances" sake - to psych us dumbells out. The man's close to 90 - anybody else think it's waaay past time for him to goooooo???? Right before we ABOLISH THE FED??
For authoritative info on the Fed - check out Congressman Ron Paul's website (type Ron Paul in to Google and click on Rep. Paul's weekly column archives.)
If ordinary Americans don't wake up to the evil of the "Federal" (ha ha) Reserve and demand that it be abolished, this country is done economically within the next 4 years. Wake up America!
posted by Guest at 05:54 P.M. EST on Thu Sep 30, 2004 #
I see Makow also has a link to "www.paranoiamagazine.com" which has some good background on why we are in Iraq. Why the sons and daughters of the lower and middle class are being sacrificed on the altar of new world order ambition and evil. Whilst the sons and daughters of the elites are safe and warm at home with their moms and dads.
I wondered at the time of the Republican convention whether any other middle American was offended by the first lady excusing her daughters' foolishness by saying they were very "young". The men losing their lives or limbs - men whose lives will never be the same are also very young - younger than her daughters in many cases. This nation needs to begin to scrutinize this elite class and their careless lives much more closely. Is this really who we want in control of our government? And if they remain in control, do we actually any longer HAVE a government "of the people, by the people and for the people"?
Our children are dying and being maimed in a godforsaken land for no other reason than to enable the elites to control Iraq's oil. And evangelical Christians who support this need to open their Bibles and get on their knees.
posted by Guest at 09:52 A.M. EST on Sat Oct 02, 2004 #
Mine was: Economic Left/Right: -4.5; Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.92. Since my first political experience was working on the campaign of Eugene McCarthy in 1968, I guess that makes sense. My red dot is in the same place as Nelson Mandela's dot. However, I do not consider myself a Libertarian. I consider myself a social liberal, but a fiscal conservative. I support social and gender equality, yet I am also a strong believer in capitalism.
I think that people who are satisfied with their society, in moral and economic terms, gravitate more to the "left" or towards a sense of personal satisfaction. On the other hand, people who are hungry and physically threatened become vulnerable to "right" wing extremism and fiscal protectionism, if not outright facism.
We're pretty fortunate in the US today. We are not occupied by a foreign nation (although we occupy a foreign country). And while our middle class is shrinking, most Americans are far from starving. However, the policies of our current administration continue to polarize Americans. Our current leaders in Washington are allowing the most wealthy Americans and large corporations to reap windfall tax benefits, while the shrinking middle class and the working poor bear a higher tax burden.
Finally, with Federal cutbacks stressing state budgets, and with states losing tax revenue due to the recession, Americans on fixed incomes (retirees, the disabled) are forced to bear a higher burden with increased property taxes. This may give voters something to think about in terms of supporting Republicans, who contnue to make rich Americans more wealthy. Funny thing is, those rich Americans and big corporations keep getting more and more tax breaks. Actually, it isn't very funny, is it?
I keep wondering why it's popular to be a "conservative" today. Conservatives support big business and tax breaks for the rich, at the expense of poor and working-class people. They would deny a woman control over her own reproduction, are against affirmative action and social equality, prefer religion in public schools and have no particular angst over our environmental pollution. Many of them believe that the USA is a "Christian" country (I guess that means Jews, Muslims, Budhists, etc. are second-class citizens). Many of them believe "my country-right or wrong." After all, Bush said that if he had the decision to do over again, knowing what he does now (WMD), he would still invade Iraq.
The sad fact is that very few Americans actually vote. In fact, those who vote the least (poor people and minorities) have lost the most to our "compassionate" conservatives. If just some of them would bother to vote, our political landscape would move over to the left, where people care more about each other, where the rich actually pay more in taxes, where women can control their own reproductive decisions, where global corporations are actually accountable for their pollution and where the government doesn't have the right to spy upon Americans simply because of their political leanings.
posted by Chaz at 10:13 P.M. EST on Mon Oct 04, 2004 #
Syndicate ToledoTalk
