I am a conservative, and I know what these words mean: "You think healthcare is expensive now, just wait till it's FREE!"<br><br>Back to my navel...<br><br>jp<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 23:45, Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net">gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Frankly, these bumper stickers all sound like they were written by<br>
liberals.<br>
<br>
No facts. No logic.<br>
<br>
For the last 40 years at least, nobody who called themselves a liberal,<br>
and nobody who called themselves a conservative, has had the slightest<br>
idea what either of these words mean. Now if these two bands of<br>
loud-mouthed, self-centered, navel-contemplating idiots could go off in a<br>
corner somewhere and rip each other to shreds, the rest of us could get<br>
on with life, work, putting our country back together again, maybe even<br>
ENJOYING life for what it is, rather than debating what is or isn't<br>
missing.<br>
<br>
I note with pleasure that the date for "change" that the author "can<br>
believe in" is Jan 20, 2013. I too expect Obama to serve for eight years.<br>
<br>
I will add a more respectful note on the last sticker, which is a genuine<br>
quote from a genuine, sincere, and utterly misguided conservative,<br>
Margaret Thatcher. What she misses out on is that capitalism, as we know<br>
it today, also spends a great deal of other people's money. Consider, for<br>
example, the Savings and Loan scam of the 1980s, and the derivative<br>
scandals which have nearly crippled our economy and raised unemployment<br>
to 10% or so, as the collateral damage to making a few people very rich<br>
on our money. When she broke up the modestly "socialized" economy of<br>
Great Britain, she did it much the way the economy of the USSR was broken<br>
up under Yeltsin. A small number of well-placed insiders (in the USSR<br>
these were called communists, and they were very good at becoming<br>
rapacious capitalists, given the chance), took over government assets,<br>
and then treated them as private property. One of the enterprising souls<br>
(in Britain) leveraged some national railway assets bought at fire sale<br>
prices into a multi-continental enterprise, that has now bought<br>
Greyhound, and also bought the company I drive for, but I haven't noticed<br>
that anything has changed where the rubber meets the road.<br>
<br>
Siarlys<br>
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