Only a leftist imbecile would accuse conservatives of being communists! Here's a primer for you idiot, conservatives support limited government with maximum freedoms for the citizen.
Leftist collectivists (like you) believe the State should have the power and the individual should be subjugated to the power of that State.
Got it?
Oh, thats right! Conservatives in Russia support limited government with maximum freedoms for the citizen. Conservatives in Russia espouse all the virtues of Americana; they warmly embrace the US Constitution, can recite the Declaration of Independence by heart. They love capitalism and the 'invisible hand'
You're delusional Conservatives in Russia long for the days of the Soviet Union. Conservatives in America long for the days of limited Constitutional government. The two don't equateÂ…. I hate keeping this stupid ass thread going. It should be in the conspriacy room with the rest of the nut job threads
The last 30 years has been the conservative era. How much did Republicans limit government? Oh, that right, they GREW government. But they didn't want to PAY for it.
Where did our debt come from? When did massive debt become part of the American economy?
Reagan switched the federal government from what he critically called, a “tax and spend” policy, to a “borrow and spend” policy, where the government continued its heavy spending, but used borrowed money instead of tax revenue to pay the bills. The results were catastrophic. Although it had taken the United States more than 200 years to accumulate the first $1 trillion of national debt, it took only five years under Reagan to add the second one trillion dollars to the debt. By the end of the 12 years of the Reagan-Bush administrations, the national debt had quadrupled to $4 trillion!
daveman accuses me of wanting to implement European policies in America. The TRUTH is Russia is the model conservatives want to turn America into.
Conservative Russia
People simply do not realize that Russia is a deeply conservative country.
Fiscal policy is buttressed on a low, flat rate of income tax (13%), and there is virtually no social safety net, with spending on unemployment security, medical provision, disability aid, infrastructure, the environment, and urban regeneration far lower, in both absolute terms and as a percentage of GDP, than its G8 contemporaries.
Similarly, military spending is high in comparison — and growing — medical care is available free in theory, but requires private insurance or additional cash payment in practice, and businesses are in reality pretty un-regulated.
If that doesnÂ’t sound to you like a set of policies Newt Gingrich or William F Buckley would support, then you donÂ’t know your dyed in the wool conservatives from your woolly jumper wearing liberals.
After 80 years of Marxist indoctrination, young ladies in Russia often reject feminism, men ooze with unrepentant machismo, and the population appears to generally support a penal code that could have been based on DostoyevskyÂ’s work.
Many cities and regions across Russia have passed "anti-gay" laws that ban gay parades and gay propaganda. St.Petersburg's recently proposed legislation
"Under the proposed legislation, promoting homosexuality will be punishable by fines ranging from 5,000 rubles ($168) for individuals to 500,000 rubles ($16,800) for legal entities. This is almost 10 times more than in the first version of the law."
Mothers petition St. Petersburg to drop anti-gay legislation — RT
Russia and Belarus are the only countries in Europe to still use the death penalty (ban expired 2011). Russia forces sex offenders to have chemical castration.
"From now on people found guilty of sex crimes against children under the age of 14 will face chemical castration, while repeat offenders face a life sentence."
Russia introduces chemical castration for pedophiles — RT
A few months ago, Russia passed strict new anti-abortion laws.
"President Dmitri A. Medvedev has signed into law the first steps intended to restrict abortion since the collapse of communism. The new law made mandatory a waiting period of two to seven days before an abortion can be performed, to allow the woman to "reconsider her decision"
Russia Restricts Abortions As Population Dips