Originally posted by zeeblebotMaybe we'll learn that the democrat "tax and spend" thing actually has merirts and that money shouldn't be wasted, but to get anything done, you need to have money for it. We need more tax income in this country, and it really needs to come from the rich. The democrats should go back to trying to represent the poor, common man and workers to contrast the rich the republicans represent. No more candidates like Kerry. I find it absurd how many non rich people vote republican just to get themselves screwed over. Not that the democrats are much better lately. They need to stand up for what they believe instead of just making half compromises on platforms and looking like they don't really stand for anything and are a bunch of pointless liars like Kerry came off as.
Maybe we'll learn not to trust Democrats with state and local emergency planning.
Originally posted by sasquatch672Wow. recc'ed!
Here's the thing. If a single good thing can come out of Katrina, maybe it's this. Maybe Americans can learn to be forward-looking, learn to value investment in infrastructure. Maybe Americans can realize that a little bit of government - the little bit that provides mass evacuation capabilities, the little bit that provides for disaster relief, th ...[text shortened]... k about the world we're leaving to our children and our childrens' children.
Just hoping.
I really don't see any evidence less than 25 years old to make me think that the Democratic party is 'tax and spend.'
I do see a lot of evidence that the Republican party has become 'borrow and spend and borrow and spend and borrow and spend.' Maybe Bush was sleeping through the economics class that went over the futility of Ponzi schemes.
