I think this would be better worded as "radical right wing political groups" because the average conservative was pissed that they gave us a bad name. But good post I agree.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Conservative PedoCat . . . ?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Okay, so people, don't be idiots this time, and vote for Ron Paul.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Or Herman Cain.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

or that woman

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Bachmann is an idiot who embarrasses intelligent women everywhere.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Bachmann is an idiot who embarrasses Christians everywhere. I'm ashamed to say many of my evangelical friends and relatives support her...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't know of anybody who supports her.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Herman Cain's tax plan is highly regressive. The reason we don't tax items such as food is so people with lower income will be able to afford them too. If we slap a 9 percent tax on food, the poor people will be impacted the most, because they spend a greater percentage of their paycheck on food than people with higher salaries. It's a great plan if you're rich though, but most of us aren't.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Even those at the poverty line have much more than people in other countries. Everyone needs to sacrifice at least a little to get out of this recession.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The people who are poor should NOT have to sacrifice anything. They weren't the ones who got us into this crisis.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

And the rich are?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Everyone's a little at fault, but least of all the poor people. It's not fair to put a greater burden on them than on everyone else.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The burden is the same, it's just a little harder to bear.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's not actually the same burden. Imagine Household A that makes 100 grand a year. They spend 5000 a year on groceries (that's low to average). That's 5% of their paycheck. Now imagine household B that makes 20 grand a year, and they spend the same amount on groceries. That's 25% of their paycheck. Now imagine that the price goes up on groceries by 9%, so they now cost 5450, a .45% increase for Household A, but a 3.25% increase for Household B, who probably is struggling to make ends meet as it is. How on earth is this fair? It's a lot harder to bear.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If you're in America, that is. Many other places would have much lower net income.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Other places have nothing to do with it, what the hell is wrong with you? People want to elect Herman Cain to run THIS country, and if he gets nominated or even wins, that would be tragic for people with low income levels, and that percentage of the population is growing daily. And by the way, I come from a low income family, and if they raise the price of groceries by 9%, we won't be able to pay our rent. To take this out on the poor while corporations and banks rake in billions (they got the bailouts, let's not forget, and that didn't make life better for anyone else) and so to try to fix the economy by taxing the poor is the epitome of stupidity. Frankly, I find it disgusting. And no, I'm not whining, and I'm not for handouts or anything, I'm using common sense. And I suggest you do to.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

World economy and population has everything to do with us.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

How so? How can you use the world economy and population to justify such a burden on our working class? You know, you can't just throw arbitrary statements out like that, you need to support them with evidence.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I agree. To many politicians, the economy is everything. But some thongs are more important than money. Economics is a social construction; hunger is not.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

We definitely aren't helping the economy by keeping everything we have for ourselves. A small pool of resources dedicated to many causes will be much less useful in solving problems than a larger pool of resources dedicated to a more focused cause. Granted, federal government currently sucks with spending their money (a high school class was able to solve a large portion of the debt problem in about 50 minutes just be rewriting Congress's budget). That doesn't mean that government is the whole problem. We need reforms on all levels. As for world population/economy- The entirety of our resources comes from the world. Other countries have demand, too. It's not like we're the only ones that need resources. One might say our situation is caused by the huge consumption of resources compared to other countries. I quote from a new textbook on biology "When the total area of ecologically productive land on Earth is divided by the global population, we each have a share of about 2.1 gha..." The ecological footprint of the United States is about 9.4 gha (and we only have about 5 gha per person). Earth's population has doubled in the last 50 years and the trend is continuing, so we can...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

...expect the figure of 2.1 to drop (unless Earth gets bigger or we manage to start self sufficient colonies; neither is likely to happen). What I'm saying is that we have an awfully massive resource intake compared to production and we expect it to stay that way when all logic says it cannot.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

He is a terrorist, you liberal idiot.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

A rich black man in America is hardly a terrorist.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What does being rich and black have to do with being a terrorist? Also, he's not American. He's Kenyan.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

He was born in America. He is an American citizen. Besides, how many terrorists are from Kenya?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

inb4 troll reference

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It doesn't matter how many terrorists there are in Kenya. They found terrorists in Australia, which isn't considered to be a terrorist country. Also, why didn't Obama show his birth certificate?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

He did..

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That was a forgery. You voted for an illegal immigrant terrorist communist Nazi forger. I hope you're happy.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You troll too hard. Try to be more subtle next time.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Got me.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Actually, a lot of Republicans did vote for Obama. I happen to know quite a few. My dad himself almost did until he found out what he was.

by Anonymous 3 years ago