Important Stuff -- Or Not: What's not to love about Big Government?

Monday, February 22, 2010

What's not to love about Big Government?

I was just bated on Facebook to provide the Republican defense to this opinion piece by Paul Krugman at the NY TIMES that BIG GOVERNMENT is just the cost of staying afloat in this day and age! Conservatives should just stop fighting it and Republicans are just lying to us about trying to shrink government anyway. Anyone got a short response I can steal. It's a busy Monday.

7 comments:

Trader Rick said...: How about "republicans may be scum, but at least they're not commie scum like you and your democrat pals, you bloviated loser."

What does "bated" mean?; 5:07 PM
Tonto said...: Thanks Trader Rick. "Bated" means taunt or insult me into it.; 5:11 PM
Mark said...: Responding to any Liberal comment is like pushing a rope. Uphill.

Refer to LR's list of truths about Liberals, and ignore it.; 9:48 AM
Janelle said...: Liberals have double standards, otherwise, they would have no standards.; 1:14 PM
Uncle Walt said...: Actually you were "baited"; 4:38 PM
Uncle Walt said...: No surprise here, I agree with Paul Krugman.

It has been a Republican/Conservative mantra since Reagan to cut taxes and complain about spending. The last time there was a Republican administration and a Republican Congress, they (you guessed it) cut taxes AND RAISED spending.

Now we have a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress and what are they doing. Proposing to raise taxes on the weathiest and proposing to PAY FOR THEIR PROGRAMS. George Bush and the Republicans pushed through Medicare Part D but made no attempt to pay for it. Barack Obama is trying to reform health care and the bills in front of congress do not increase our debt.

Democrats are reinstating something Bush and Republicans let expire, a concept called Pay as you Go. Soemthing that helped during the Clinton years (remember those horrible years where we raised taxes AND created 20 million new jobs) to actually balance the budget.

Its funny to hear conservatives/Republicans talk about fiscal discipline since they have consistently refused to exercise any.

It would be nice if Republicans would stop lying.

I am not holding my breath.; 4:48 PM
Lone Ranger said...: Liberalism is dead. The movement has been hijacked by some kind of capitalist-hating, Christian-hating, Jew-hating, conservative-hating family-hating, freedom-hating mutant movement that I can't begin to describe. I just use "liberal" as a matter of convenience.

As for Republican lies, yeah, democrats NEVER lie.

I believe Immutable Truths About Liberals #17 applies here.; 11:06 PM

Talking Points

I don't use talking points, I create them.

1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.