The point is not the deficit, it's who has control of the money supply and with that determines whether your deficit is 'healthy' or 'unhealthy'.

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I wasn't sure what I heard in regards to the 1 million electric cars. 2015 is in about 4 years from, I don't think 1 mill. is going to happen by than, IMO.
Religions are indeed one the biggest problems humanity has to deal with. People can't accept that they exist because tyey exist. Period. I am all for taxing them.
Here is a matter of scale though:
The more powerful any institution appears throughout society, the less it is been taxed.

Intesting analogy, ain't it?

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Except that the former President modified his behavior--he stopped being a drunk.

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Which was the premise of my response, that it is convenient to label from past events, but not always accurate. Fiscal conservatives have been known to spend like "drunken Democrats" . . .

Which is why while I would vote for a Republican who IS a fiscal conservative, I cannot find one. What I have is a choice between a Demopublican and a Republicrat. After all, we have known for the longest time that Mom & Dad won't win the popularity contest as much as Grandpa and Grandma because M&D tell you that you have to do this, that or the other. G&G tells you that you can do whatever you want.

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Strange..I never would have pictured you as being a conservative.

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I watched Ryan's response and I kept waiting for him to respond. All he did was repeat a bunch of talking points and I thought he passed up a great opportunity to poke holes in Obama's logic. Since he didn't I figured he couldn't.

Then I watched Bachman's response and was distracted by her thousand yard stare routine. Then I figured out she was reading off of cue-cards. Her response was so weird that I could see why the Republicans did not want her to give it.

I though Obama's speech was OK, but it was about 61 minutes too long. He could have just said "We have a lot of work to do in these areas." Listed the areas, and said Goodnight Everybody!

Oscar Wilde once made a speech and here it is: "I have been rich and I have been poor. Rich is better. Thank you." It covered all the important points he had come to talk about, so it was a good speech. Obama could have had a speech that was just that quick.

The three rules of speechmaking: Be Funny, Be Brief and Be Gone.

Brevity is important.

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Fiscally, I tend to be more conservative.

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