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On 08-04-07, ROSS SAUER said to ROSS CASSELL:


RS>ROSS CASSELL said to ROSS SAUER...


RC> RS> Maybe if all those $$$ for Bush's fiasco in Iraq were diverted
RC> RS> to repairing bridges, public works like sewers and steam pipes,
RC> RS> those big  fat tax cuts to the filthy rich was stopped, and all
RC> RS> the $$$ that go to pork like Ted Stevens' "bridge to nowhere"
RC> RS> was ended also, it would be a good start.


RC>Shouda, couda, wouda..


RC>But hey, I aint rich and I got a tax cut..


RS>How much?




Confession of a Recovering Democrat


By Burt Prelutsky
Monday, August 6, 2007


I grew up in a home in which Franklin Roosevelt was regarded as a saint. Is
it any wonder that it took me so many years before I finally saw the light?

As a rule, I don't approve of people who lay their own shortcomings at the
feet of their parents, but when I realize that for no other reason than the
way I was raised that I actually voted for Jimmy Carter, it's awfully
tempting to blame my folks.


But whoever is at fault, it is certainly high time to acknowledge how much
harm was done to this country during FDR's administrations, and how much spin
left-wing historians have put on his record . For instance, he has often been
credited with keeping America from going Communist during the Great
Depression.


But you might say the same about the leaders of Germany, Italy and Spain.


The fact is, Roosevelt simply introduced an American form of Communism, one
the country was willing to swallow. There were no gulags or show trials;
instead, there was an alphabet soup of new federal departments and
bureaucracies, whose sole purpose was to diminish the power of the states and
its citizens. FDR tried and pretty much succeeded in turning the federal
government into a grotesque, power-crazy, creature that was all mouth and no
brain. Compared to Roosevelt, Dr. Frankenstein was small potatoes.


Roosevelt can't even be credited with leading the country out of the Great
Depression. If anything, as others, including Amity Shlaes in her terrific
book, `The Forgotten Man', have pointed out, his economic policies
undoubtedly prolonged the nation's agony. In a move that would have delighted
such knuckleheads as John Edwards and George Soros, FDR kept increasing taxes
during the 1930s. Only an old time lefty or a modern-day Democrat would ever
imagine that the solution to a financial malaise would be to increase the tax
burden on businesses and individuals. It took World War II, not Roosevelt's
left-wing machinations, to get America back on its feet.


That's one of the reasons why when Michael Savage contends that liberalism is
a mental disorder, I am in complete agreement. Liberals simply refuse to
learn from their mistakes. Even though a lower tax rate inevitably leads to a
sounder economy, to this day Democrats continue to insist that taxes should
be raised. A child of eight could figure out that lower taxes allows
businesses to expand and to pay higher salaries to more workers, thus leading
to more taxes being paid.


But, then, most eight-year-olds aren't liberals.


Another lesson that the Left refuses to learn is that when dealing with
fascism, communism or Islamic fanaticism, so-called diplomacy never works.

Inevitably, liberals turn to a toothless organization such as the League of
Nations or the U.N. to settle things peacefully, ignoring the fact that 70
years of history prove that they have never settled anything, whether the
trouble was in Ethiopia, China, Iraq or Darfur. Inevitably, the guys in
striped pants have to step aside and let the soldiers do what must be done.


While I have your attention, will someone please tell me who the ignoramus
was who came up with the notion of dual-citizenship? I'm betting that some
liberal knucklehead was behind it. How on earth can anyone simultaneously be
a citizen of the United States and of some other place? It sure sounds a lot
like bigamy.


Finally, I had a bad night recently. I couldn't get to sleep at all once it
occurred to me that liberals could literally get away with murder. All they'd
have to do is to plead insanity.


W. Burt Prelutsky is an accomplished, well-rounded writer and author of
Conservatives Are from Mars (Liberals Are from San Francisco): 101 Reasons
I'm Happy I Left the Left.

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