WebsterMark wrote on 11/10/12 at 08:46:48:1) No conservative wants to drill every square inch. We acknowledge reality. Anwar is an enormous land area. Why in the world could we not set up a drilling operation? It will have zero effect. There are oil drills near me yet I never see them.
America so some soccer Mom can drive her SUV to the grocery store? Who are you to decide what vehicle someone drives? Maybe the SUV mom likes the safety issues? Maybe the fact she can carry 7 kids with her is valuable to her? Who are you to say otherwise? Would you be in favor of saying no one can own a motorcycle if they also owe a car since one or the other is a waste?
2) Who said conservatives do not support alternative energy measures? I support alternative energy measures. I used to work at a company whose business that was. We just say it is a slowly emerging technology that is going to require time to develop. We are against forcing this on the market when it cannot stand on its own and requires large government subsidies to survive. Yea, it would be great to get oil dependency, but oil is the single most efficient energy source. Until that changes, it is what it is.
3) If Obama’s tax increase goes thru, in 10 years, it will reduce the deficit 7.5%, that’s all and that’s assuming everything else stays static. Nothing stays static. Also, it WILL cause a job loss, that’s an absolute certainty. I have a buddy who is one of those small business’s who file as individuals and he will absolutely lay off 1 or 2 people if the tax goes thru so you cannot say this will have no effect. No one should get a tax increase, we do not have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem.
4) I have no problem with birth control, I take advantage of birth control…. !!, but I’m not going to pay for it and I don’t think we should force the catholic religion to pay for abortion pills. Sandra Fluke can buy her own, I shouldn’t have to pay for it.
5) As one President wisely said, there are violent men in the world who only understand violence. If the middle east were are only concern, I’d agree with you, but they are not. The world is a far, far better and safer place with the US as the dominant super power. Who would you prefer assume our role (because someone will)... China?
6) I’d love for healthcare to be individual expense like auto insurance and other insurance. Why employers and government is involved in this is beyond me. National healthcare does not work, it is misperception that it does. It only works because the level of care continues to go down.
This list could go on and on, I live conservative, I think progressive, and I try to understand how a party who stood for common sense has turned to shortsighted, narrow minded, radical thought patterns...
Now, I’ve given you common sense reasons why I believe what I do. So, explain to me why I’m wrong.
1. No impact, no effect? Really, tell that to the property owners who have lost their water wells to fracking, tell that to those same property owners who see traffic going back and forth to well sites increase twenty fold, tell that to those who worry about the billions of gallons of water being wasted to produce natural gas, then most of all tell that to our childrens, children, who's fresh/clean water has dissapeared for our selfish actions... Look at sattelite views of natural gas areas, then tell me it has had NO impact...
2. All conservative look at is shortsighted narrow views, proven by your comments.. Many alternative energy outfits are still very much alive, they have lowered cost of solar, wind and geothermal, and if they had the same resources big oil has they could be producing over 70% of our energy needs by now.. Again all so-called conservatives see are failures and strike political agenda against any energy form that competes with their main contributer, big oil... That same soccer Mom can find a more energy efficient vehicle, and actually make a sacrifice for the future of those seven kids.. Show them how to conserve, valuble lessons..
3. No, we do have a revenue problem! Bushes tax cuts are the main culprit here, they were designed to boost the economy, they provided the opposite effect... Yea your buddy needs to quit playing politics and start looking for tax writeoffs, like MORE employees! Tax rates in the fifties were at 75-90% on the wealthy, and they overcame, in fact the WHOLE nation prospered, people invested in their businesses, instead of pocketing the cash and whining!
4. Your not paying for it, insurance is, and if a archaic religion cannot pull itself into the 21st century, it needs to be yanked into reality!! But they are not being forced into anything anymore... More political recourse by tax exempt religions, who maybe should lose their tax exmpt status..
5. The civilized world should assume the role, not one nation. We spend 48 times the rest of the world on our military.. And we sacrifice our youth every twenty years or so to the NEW war.. Need to change from occupying force, to quick reaction force.. We have enough weaponry to destroy the world at a push of a button, not enough, paranoid much?
6. Insurance= Legalized extortion.. National healthcare does work, and has for many years in other industralized nations! Your information is flawed, proven flawed, and fed to you by big insurance and Reagan lovers..
I could go on and on...
If you think past your nose you will see a light, now pull hard, hear the pop?
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