http://www.ontheissues.org/2004/Dick_Cheney_Budget_+_Economy.htm

A “freeper” is a conservative activist. I ran away fast from the conservative movement in 2001 when it was clear it was becoming a warmongering, bigoted and anti-intellectual movement.

So let me get this straight: If something is partisan and voted through by Republicans only, it’s good. If something is bipartisan, even if it is initiated by Republicans, it’s bad. And to be blamed on the Democrats.

Blaming one side or the other because they were in charge at the moment “the shit hit the fan” tells us little except the author of those lines hasn’t the first clue how capitalism works.

Congress holds the purse strings.

The Democrats have been in control of Congress for over two and a half years. When did the shit hit the fan. After the Democrats took control of the purse strings. While we are in the truth game – The deficit last year was in the high 400’s. While some of the 2008 bailout money was Bush’s, Obama voted for it. Bush also gave the money to the Auto companies, but only after Obama said he wanted the money paid out.

What is a freeper, and when did you switch?

What is a feeper, and when did you switch?

It wasn’t always an anti-intellectual movement. Sure, we pandered to that sort of crowd to get their votes (as all parties do) but I didn’t think the party and movement would get hijacked in the way that it did.

“I hold that a corporation does ill if it seeks profit in restricting production and then by extorting high prices from the community by reason of the scarcity of the product; through adulterating, lyingly advertising, or over-driving the help; or replacing men workers with children; or by rebates; or in any illegal or improper manner driving competitors out of its way; or seeking to achieve monopoly by illegal or unethical treatment of its competitors, or in any shape or way offending against the moral law either in connection with the public or with its employees or with its rivals. Any corporation which seeks its profit in such fashion is acting badly. It is, in fact, a conspiracy against the public welfare which the Government should use all its powers to suppress.

“If, on the other hand, a corporation seeks profit solely by increasing its products through eliminating waste, improving its processes, utilizing its by-products, installing better machines, raising wages in the effort to secure more efficient help, introducing the principle of cooperation and mutual benefit, dealing fairly with labor unions, setting its face against the underpayment of women and the employment of children; in a word, treating the public fairly and its rivals fairly: then such a corporation is behaving well. It is an instrumentality of civilization operating to promote abundance by cheapening the cost of living so as to improve conditions everywhere throughout the whole community.”

I have been hoping for years to read a proper study of the two Presidents Roosevelt in terms of their similarities, preferably leading to a synthesis of their thought as applicable in the present age. If anyone knows of such a work, then do please let me know.

Yes, and we know how the Dummycrats inhabit the sane end of the spectrum – you know, troofers, terror apologists and President-Urkel sycophants (`Yes we can!’). By the way, the whole `birther’ business was started by a Hillary Clinton blogger.

I was going to say, `Pot met kettle’, but the Dummies are the only insane ones – not that you’d people would know from the BBC.