I'm conservative on most issues, but when it comes to women's right to choose, I'm with them. However I do not think the government should pay for anything whatsoever with that issue. I also couldn't care less if gay people marry eachother, and I don't think the government should pay for their weddings either.
Our economy is in serious trouble. Lots of people seem to think this is just a faze of capitalism, the rise and falls. I disagree, we are on the brink, or coming toward the brink of a serious downturn towards a possible collapse. The fiscal decisions we make in the next 5 years will have a tremendous impact on our future. The government must be smaller, spend less, and hopefully be less invasive if we are going to continue to be a superpower.
Thanks for your post, USMCSergeant, fiscal decisions are an ongoing responsibility of the citizens' representatives. It would be wiser if we looked to see what is causing the society to crumble before charismatics who have trained themselves to say what people want to hear and then try to make the impossible come true. So while I agree the government must be smaller, and spend less, it has to focus on security until terrorism threats are abolished completely.
The occupiers aren't growing up, they're going to get more and more out of hand, and Obama encouraged them to disrupt this society last year when they started, because a disrupted society is in his favor, and his favor is not the favor of the majority of Americans, and in the long run is not in favor of any minority, either.
Someone has to be the adult, and the occupiers have set down their gauntlet of misbehavior as their generation's offerings.
By sluffing off, not taking the summer classes they would have taken to graduate college sooner, they're taking an easy paycheck from community organizers who have tapped into George Soros' deep pockets, not to mention from the U. S. Treasury in the form of welfare checks and food stamps. With no worries, they're just that; they're not worried.
This "don't worry be happy" approach is great on a Saturday night, but 100% of the time? That's putting a lot of pressure on a private work force that is growing smaller and smaller as government work grows and grows, which demands that this small sector of workers supports everybody who doesn't want to work or wants a government job because they can puss around all day squawking "racism" if anybody suggests they earn their keep.
I'm not sure what all the answers will be, but one thing is certain, as the founders instructed: with no moral principles (religion), there can be no freedom.
Freedom depends on people doing well in life and supporting institutions that make America strong--religion and moral training; educational excellence; stamina and physical strength; but most of all, loyalty to each other in family group, community, state, and national levels. The arts were a dream postponed by earnest founders who lost life, limb, property, and loved ones to war with an English king who took their money but gave them no representation whatever in his court.
The occupiers have reached an apex in thoughtlessness and misuse of other people, expecting somebody else to feed them, somebody else to tend to their injuries and illnesses, somebody else to clean up after them, and somebody else tolerating them while they busy themselves being intolerant of the very people who support the government financially--taxpayers, who are already overburdened by politicians who think nothing of spending another trillion dollars hither, thither, and yon.
