I honestly think there are more Republicans, or at least people of a more conservative persuassion out there than anyone is willing to let on. I believe the perception that America is being overrun by Michael Moore and his crusaders of moral destruction is blown out of proportion. I mean who really wants to write or read news about employed, educated, responsible citizens? I'm not making the generalization that all employed, educated, and responsible citizens are registered righties but I'd like to point out that those in less fortunate situations tend to value the social welfare a big fat democratic budget would provide. Such individuals possess a peculiar sense of entitlement that would guarentee them a lifestyle that most have to work hard for while those citizens that do work to enrich their communities and country pay for it.

I payed attention in school, I still have the note books to prove it. The fundamental idea of wealth redistribution reeks of socialism. As the left approaches the high dive of the political continuum they won't look back, not with someone like John Kerry in charge anyway. The free market will be no more and our lives have the potential to undoubtedly change. You can go ahead and preach to me about the flourishing social democracies of Sweden, Norway, etc but I'll bring you an argument complete with answers you won't like. Our nordic friends enjoy a culture, population, and even economy that is infintiley more homogenous than the United States was the day the May Flower landed. The simple diversity that is America requires a much different kind of government which will inevitably break down into classes, brackets, and other discriminatory units the fuzzy liberals oppose.

I agree that equality of oppurtunity is essential to the further development of our country and I believe that anyone willing and able to utilize that oppurtunity can and will. Without the immigration of people posessing ingenuity, resourcefulness, and the desire to surpass their own potential the U.S. would not be the world power that it is. I sincerley oppose the idea that just because you can claim citizenship then along with your basic rights (including that of oppurtunity) you should recieve benefits that you never really earned. Thoughts of an expansion of the already bloated welfare program make me cringe. I worked in the employment industry for two years in the single state whose welfare program is most generous. Daily I would encounter individuals complaining that "shoot I need a job today, my welfare expires tomorrow". I just had to ask then "Well buddy, what the hell were you doing the last six months while you were living off my tax dollars." Aside from buying plasma TV's for their governent subsidized housing and new rims for their Caddy I think they were doing absoluetly nothing.
Last time I checked the Bill of Rights I didn't see luxury items like chromed out cars and expensive electronics listed as a basic freedom. Then again "crazy" people like George W. want to amend the good old constitution to protect morality, so I guess I could have missed the "Pimp My Life" amendment. Maybe I'm jaded, bitter, and all those other bad words liberal people call young people that are conservative. Really though, I would prefer to think that I've come to the realization that liberalism just doesn't make much sense a little bit quicker than most. I know I'm not alone and either are those people that booed the crazy singer lady of stage in Las Vegas.