At 02:18 PM 7/25/01 +0200 J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>>And the beauty of it all Kristin - is that *you* get to spend how *your*
>>money is spent, instead of letting President Bush, Trent Lott, Tom
>>Daschele, Dennis Hastert, and the rest of us here in Washington decide how
>>your money should be spent.
>>
>>That Kristin, is called freedom, and its Republican, and I do hope you
>>enjoy it.
>
>What makes spending your own money something Republican? This implies that
>the Democrats think people shouldn't be allowed to spend their own money.
Its a bit more nuanced than that. (And for Kristin's benefit, I did not
equate being a Republican with freedom.)
Spending your own money, by definition is freedom. Whenever someone
forcibly takes your money from you and spends it, that is, by definition, a
restriction on freedom.
The Republicans are unequivocally the Party of greater economic freedom.
We want individuals to choose how to spend a greater portion of our GDP and
we want governments to choose how to spend a much smaller portion of our GDP.
If Kristin (or anyone else) thinks that she can somehow "get back" at
Republicans by exercising the greater economic freedom won for her by
Republicans, then she really just doesn't understand the first thing about
being a Republican.
>Kristin, do you consider Bush and other Republicans "good friends"?
Perhaps not..... but we consider her to be a friend of ours.
JDG
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