[noonereal]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Tax cuts, tax cuts, sheesh, our infrastructure is in the toilet to the point that locals tend to call DC Baghdad on the Ptomac. We have let these capitalist geneii destroy our manufacturing base. We are engaged in a war of stupidity, not necessity - Afghanistan is the world's leading heroin producer for God's sake. And all I get from the right is "we must be self reliant". I have news for y'all, the only person in this country that I have absolute reliance upon is my wife. No one else has even given me the sweat off their balls and I have never asked for anything. Do I like paying taxes? Hell no, but I also don't like living in what is rapidly becoming a third world country. Roads dont maintain themselves, neither do bridges (although I have never understood the way we build them,has no one ever heard of pre-stressed concrete?). Power failures are a normal occurance here and the price of electricity is exhorbitant, why? Because we left it all up to private industry who were more interested in raking off the profits than maintaining the plant. People complain about letting the government run things, then show me one good example of where private industry did a good job? I do believe they could even screw up the Lord's Prayer.

yet another excellent post