It has often been said, if you don’t stand for something you will fall for everything. I stand with the republicans on many issues, and with the dems on some. I seem to fall under the category of liberatarian. which essentially means get out of my daily life, take care of my old folks, teach my kids how to flippin read, protect our borders and let me have my money back. I worked for it, you didn’t.

The USA, my birthplace and home for these 30 years (in my opinion) is one of the best in the world. We are given incredible freedoms paid for with the lives of the amazing men and women of our armed forces. But, we have also become a nation of very small, bitter people. The incessant frivilous lawsuits, the companies that trade paper debts and call and harass people known to be in financial straits. The PT Barnum philosophy of “a sucker born every minute”, “caveat emptor” and all that.. (for those that don’t read latin, that means buyer beware.)

Many of our freedoms are in danger because The Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independance are treated like any other contract, merely a peice of paper with signatures that is open for renegotiation at any given time. If you are in doubt about the most sacred of the ammendments (the first) take a look at today’s yahoo news.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090417/ap_on_re_us/perry_secession

My governor was actually told by the Texas house democrats that he should “disavow” his comments.

In short the government has gotten to the point that it’s no longer about doing what is right for the people, it’s doing what can be done to make the other party lose seats/power/money. This past election wasn’t about choosing who should lead us, but how the donkeys could beat the elephants. While i’m on a rant.. I totally support people’s right to identify with their cultural heritage. I my self, am french-canadian-american indian-scott-irish-german-american.. where’s my bloody ethnic holiday? BUT, To me every time you use a hyphen to describe what sort of american you are, you are driving a wedge between you and the rest of america. Forget my description above. I’m AMERICAN and proud to be that. That is one thing all of us no matter if you are of irish protestant, or irish catholic descent, when you are in the USA, you are an AMERICAN as well.

I call this “I told you so” politics.

The reason Tony Blair got elected so emphatically is that he didn’t devote his whole campaign on telling Britain why the Conservatives shouldn’t be in power but more why he should be in power.

As I said, All he did was cry and whinge, he didn’t give any opinions as to what to do now or steps to take in the future, as well scripted his speech was, it was completely worthless.

I’m all for constructive critcism and I will listen with great attention when someone speaks with an opinion on how to do things, how to fix, change, do things better in the future. But I will laugh just as Gordon Brown did, when someone speaks like a 5 year old and says “I told you so.”

Of course if you would like, we of the British Empire will happily receive the contrite 13 colonies back: so long as you bring the oil (not sure about Texas; California and Florida can come). After all, perhaps represntation is actually over-rated… We will teach your politicians how to articualte meanigfully and you can teach us how to build a world-dominating economy. Fair swap?

of course, some might disagree about what we get from government. i tend to have the most qualms with how our system of farm subsidies works (doesn’t help farmers, gives lots of cash to large businesses, contributes to world poverty by driving food prices way down so people can’t afford to grow them), other people have other problems, and thus their own ways of reducing spending, which is really the issue if you ask me, not taxes. talking about taxes being too high without talking about what the money is spent on is like talking about a car being too expensive without discussing what kind of car it is.

Considering that American taxes are low these days, your first wish is a given. You’re second wish, not so much.