The difference between Republicans and Democrats . . .

[jhetley]

. . . lies mainly in which rights they think we can get along just fine without. 

The other side of the coin, counterpoint to all the unconstitutional excesses of the Bush Debacle:  Gun shops experiencing an uptick in sales, in the face of a bad economy.

http://www.bangornews.com/detail/92892.html

" . . . shall not be infringed."

Comments

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, "tax and spend". Well, y'know something -- I'm a helluva lot more comfortable with people who understand that the money has to come from somewhere than I am with the Republican "borrow and spend and cut taxes for the top 2%" pattern. Your great-grandchildren are still going to be paying off the debt this Administration has run up... and that was after Clinton left us with a budget SURPLUS. I don't have a lot of patience with "tax and spend" whining right now.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

If you think I'm defending the current administration's fiscal shenanigans, you're dead wrong.

But, we're over 60. We've saved and lived within our means, as have our parents and grandparents, both sides. And I greatly suspect that we will be targets for "means tests" on both Social Security and Medicare, for increased "Fat Cat" capital-gains taxation on non-existent* gains, negative real interest rates on savings, and other measures to punish us for being frugal when half this country was borrowing money to buy big-screen TVs and new cars. And buying houses they couldn't afford.

*One classic -- we own some non-residential property, purchased 30 years ago, which is probably worth three to four times what we paid for it -- in current dollars. In purchasing power, inflation has eaten that difference. Yet we would be paying capital "gains" tax on the whole increase.

[trilca.livejournal.com]

I'm jumping in on this one because it *always* gripes me. Mr Clinton did NOT leave us with a massive windfall. Reaganomics did, and Mr Clinton reaped the rewards from that hugely unpopular budget plan. Just as President Bush 'benefitted' from Mr Clinton's budget plan, as Barack Obama will 'benefit' from President Bush's and on down the line. The budget plans which a sitting President put into place are generally felt a couple of terms later.