Beneath The Outer Shell

this post has been edited thanks to a comment from CD, who pointed out some corrections regarding specific time frames. just remember, i personally don't blame any single person for the oil disaster.


this has gotten just plain silly. finger pointing, name calling, ignorance ridden George Bush remarks in the year 2010. i'm tired of it, NOT because Obama is the biggest threat to US capitalism and our basic civilization, but simply because it's past the time frame of when it actually makes sense.

for example, Nancy Pelosi had the nerve to blame George Bush for the oil disaster. do i need to remind you that his term ended at end of 2008? do i need to remind you that Obama has had 18 months years to examine, focus, predict, and stop the oil disaster from ever happening? think about this. if this did happen while Bush was president, every single living organism on the planet would be blaming him. but now, in 2010, everyone wants to blame BP, or...thanks to Nancy Pelosi, George Bush. Obama gets off crystal clean free! he doesn't take any responsibility, plays golf for 5 hours, goes on vacation, and diddles around wondering what BP is gonna do. now on Twitter, all i see are people talking about boycotting BP and everything related. yeah! that's the spirit! you guys show em who's boss! that will fix em AND the problem! i'm part of something profound! i'm so lucky because God really loves me...and dammit...I really love me too.

Geeesuzz

if that's not enough...just today good ole, "i'm really in touch with reality and the everyday person", Paul McCartney says, "And in fact, after the last eight years, it's great to have a president who knows what a library is".

damn. i can't believe it. that man is SO right! geesh, i never thought about George Bush being stupid! in fact, i think McCartney is the first one to ever point that out to the world! give the man a Nobel Peace Prize for being so damn brilliant!

forget about the fact that "the last eight years" would actually span from 2002-2010...making Obama president for the last 18 months.

see what i mean? people are still recycling jokes from their closet a full 18 months after the expiration date. if you wanna make fun of Bush, go ahead...but your ignorance shows through when you express your hatred in such a silly, redundant, and unoriginal fashion. what do you expect though. Paul McCartney has been worthless and looking for fame ever since "They" broke up. i feel sorry for the rotten ham, and i feel sorry for those that still can't get over the fact that Bush isn't president and Barack Hussein Obama is.

i think i would have a hard time dealing with that too.

btw...you heard about Al Gore and his wife splitting up didn't you? yep...you got it...it was because of Global Warming...and THAT was because of George Bush.

(this blog was written in response to some discussions on smashingpumpkins.com , where there are young "fans" being brainwashed daily by the left winged agenda of the site and the memebers).

you wanna talk about the Keating Five? ok, here is what they don't tell you...the other four members were DEMONcRATS! plus, McCain was cleared of any wrong doing. so what's the problem?

you really wanna go there with such a weak point? fine, Obama sat in twice a month, according to his interview with Bill O'Reilly with church service with the Rev Jeramiah Wright...which is over 500 times in 20 years, unless you do liberal math...and we are expected to believe him when he says he didn't know anything about how racist and anti-American Wright was? LMAO! are you kidding me??

ok...this is it...i'm gonna go here...yep...i'm going here NOW. Obama is a MUSLIM...why? because he was born a MUSLIM, attended a MUSLIM school, had a father who was MUSLIM, has a MUSLIM name...and if you ask any Muslim...they will tell ALL you, "once a Muslim, always a Muslim". he only changed his affiliation to be involved with politics in America. why do you think Kenya, a Muslim country, wants him to win so badly? it's just common sense and sheer naivety to ignore these facts.

and with the "current economic crisis", it was the Demoncrats who refused to see that Freddie and Fannie were going to cause trouble TWO FULL TEARS AGO! don't make me pull out the CSPAN video from youtube. it's a fact.

and then, when the bailout shit sandwich was passed and ingested by us...the DEMONcRATS were all happy and celebrating as if they were the ones who passed it, yet when it didn't pass the first time...they blamed the Republicans for it not passing, even though they have the overwhelming majority in the the lowest approval rated congress in American history. double standard or just plain stupidity and ignorance? i think both.

i can't wait until The Messiah wins in November, so we will see how a tax and spend liberal will run the economy into the ground. small business will have to lay off workers because of the extra taxes, and small business will eventually fail due to these taxes.

i can see the bumper stickers already..."don't blame me...i voted McCain"

you just wanna be a part of a movement to elect the first black man as president...regardless of the fact that he doesn't know his left from his right. plus, he is from Chicago...and since Billy is from Chicago...you are dumb enough to follow him to the grave. it's so sad to see people not use their mind and to waste it on following others rather than doing your own research and just listening to left winged nuts on this site spout their total BS on a daily basis. it's simply...un...believable.

and you people here...you ignorant children who want to vote for The Messiah...don't tell me it has anything to do with who Billy and Linda Strawberry is voting for, because i don't believe you. you guys blindly follow your "God" as you have called him on this site many times you would vote for a turtle if Billy or Linda said they were. that's called being a sheep...i call it being an IDIOT. hell, we see you blindly defending ANYTHING and EVERYTHING on his page, anything he says, and everything that he represents...even down to who he is voting for.

so, go ahead and put a Muslim in charge of America and see when the next Terrorist attack will happen and see who blames who. the Islamic Extremists WANT Obama to be the president because he is weak. go ahead...give them what they want.

personally...i can't wait! the new war on your candidate will start on November 4th and it will be GREAT.

get a clue. use your own mind to make your choices.

btw...Linda Strawberry is a NOBODY...she wouldn't even be "known" to you at ALL if it weren't for Billy (that's a FACT)...and now she has all of you brainwashed into thinking she has some real talent. it's amazing. you guys worship her or anyone Billy associates with. if Billy worshiped Mr. Hanky from South Park...you would too. get a clue!

go ahead...vote along the lines of intelligent Hollywood idiots like 'Moron' Freeman, Matt Damon, Ben A-Fleck, Susan Sarandon, and Tim Robbins. what a bunch of whinny drug addicted and out of touch with reality has beens. ohh, is that wrong of me to say? bite me.

get a clue...these people are liberal because they can afford to be liberal. if you're like me or any average citizen, you can't afford to be liberal with anymore of your money. are you tired of paying nearly 40% of your income to taxes? well, you better start to enjoy that number rising when The Messiah wins. this "tax cut" from The Messiah...is only a "tax credit"...which is clearly different than a "tax cut" (but they don't tell you that) unless you are rich (like Corgan and Strawberry, and she's only rich because of Corgan), you shouldn't be voting for people who wanna raise taxes on everything you have and will make...unless you are rich, you shouldn't be voting for people who want to increase the size of the govt (national health care, more govt programs, and now bailing out anyone who can't pay their bills). maybe you should be...if you have money you just wanna throw away.

here are some FACTS about some other countries that have worse taxes than us...and we are headed here if we vote liberal and give the GOVT more control over our lives. the source is OECD, 2005 Data from this site:
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Taxes/P148855.asp

here is how taxes in other countries break down:

if you are single...with no kids:

Germany: 51.8% of your income is taken from you

France: 50.1% of your income is taken from you

Hungary: 50.5% of your income is taken from you

Sweden: 47.9% of your income is taken from you

and check this one out...

Belgium: 55.4% of your income is taken from you

these stats only go down if you are married with kids

do you want to continue to increase our taxes to the point of coming close to the taxes these countries impose? i sure as hell don't! but the liberals DO! it's always been a fact in the history of the DEMONcRATS. liberal = liberal with YOUR money!

see...our taxes go up with liberals and they go down with conservatives. the idea with conservatives is, the more money YOU have, the more YOU will spend. well, the same idea goes with the govt and liberals...and this is why they want you to be dependent on them! don't you get it? the more the govt controls our lives, the less control we have in our own lives and the more powerful the govt gets.

it's common sense people! wake up! this is not "pop culture presidency" to be "fun"...this is SERIOUS!

see...

smaller govt = happier people because WE make the choices. bigger govt = socialism, and eventually...communism, which is when the GOVT takes away your rights to makes all of our choices for us. do the research!

WAKE UP!

you think i'm kidding? let's talk again in 20-30 years, ok?

this blog is dedicated to individuals who think of themselves as too smart to be biased...who think of themselves as being objective...who think of themselves as being part of a "movement" because you are following The Messiah to be president because you think it's his time and you're life will not have any purposeful meaning until you become part of a "movement" that will elect the first black American as president. his lack of experience in anything meaningful doesn't matter, but the VP's experience on the other side does. this blog is dedicated to you...the IDIOT.

you use sources like:

"political ticker"...which is CNN based blogs. CNN is notorious for being biased for left winged nuts. look it up online and see the stats and the discussions from the sources you use. if you honestly think that CNN is not liberal...YOU are an IDIOT. go and look now...see my point? no, you didn't go look because your mind is already made up and you, are in fact...an IDIOT. how many times have you personally gone from one station to the next to see how coverage about a breaking political story on one news channel is different than the coverage on the other networks? it's like night and day when you add Fox News to the mix. but, then after Fox, try and switch to CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and NBS...you'll get the same left winged bias. yet, you think there IS no media bias, except that of a conservative bias. see, you haven't attempted to see the differences in media bias because you continue to use left winged agenda websites as your main sources. you, in essence, are nothing BUT an IDIOT!

and you use:

"talking points memo" (TPM)...once again a left winged agenda website by a notorious left winged nut known as Josh Marshall. good God, look at their front page any day of the week and tell me whether that is a fair and balanced view of politics. and you have the nerve to use that as a "source" for your "information". see, you are an IDIOT!

you tell me you do your own research on the internet and don't watch news...but you admitted to watching The View and thought that Rosie was worthwhile. Rosie is an IDIOT...and so are YOU!

YOU are an IDIOT simply because you cannot look at things objectively like you say you do all the time. look at the websites you use as your sources. you're an IDIOT!

do i go around claiming to be "objective" like you do all the time? no...ya know why? because i'm NOT an IDIOT and i KNOW there is no such thing as looking at anything "objectively" in this world. it's simply...impossible. if you don't understand this, it proves my point once again...YOU are an IDIOT!

yes...you know who you are...you THE IDIOT. and the sad thing is that you have a family and supposedly care about them, yet you think you look at issues objectively?

un...believable.

you are an IDIOT. and the funny thing is...you all look the same. you look angry, pissed off, older than you really are, and you're faces looks like that of deranged alcoholics. ALL of you look this way. face wrinkled from your husband beating you followed by 3 liters of Smirnoff every day = YOU and what you believe in...add that to being a blind liberal who claps their hands at every chance they get because of some recent media bias that was shat out, and you get what??? an IDIOT!

ya know what? as an IDIOT, you are right on one thing...there IS a conservative bias with MOST of talk radio...but you wanna know WHY?? the ONLY reason for that is because the nuts on your liberal half-assed attmept at so-called radio, called "Air America" (al franken, janeane garofalo, alan colmes, etc) were boring, self hating, America hating IDIOTS that no one wanted to listen to because it was like listening to a homeless bum on the street rant on and on about how their life sucks because of the evil doers in America (known as rich, white, racist, Republican men). THAT is why your little "Air America" radio station is FAILING...ya see...NO ONE likes listening to people on the radio who have no self esteem and no clue about what it's like to live outside of America or in a 3rd world (as i personally have). and ya add that with a minuscule intelligence level and a severe derangement syndrome due to Hollywood, fame, drugs, and alcohol...and you get a steaming pile 20 feet tall and 30 feet wide...or in their case...just former LISTENERS who constantly wish they were dead.

ohh, is that wrong of me to say that? is this just "uncalled for"? am i "hurting you're precious little feelings?" ohh, you don't like the attacks coming your way...as in YOUR way personally? well, welcome to the world of politics...IDIOT. i guess you forgot about all of the negative attacks that came from the one...the only...The Messiah for the past year, IDIOT!. you forgot about the negative attacks coming from you and your friends over the past 8 years, IDIOT! at least i don't recite talking points from left winged agenda websites (or right winged sites) and refer others to them while attempting to make stupid points that are not true.

yes...i admit...i, am indeed...NOT an IDIOT. but i'm sure you'll have some choice words to describe me below because you are nothing BUT an IDIOT. i'm sure you wanna point out how little i know, how stupid i am, and possibly how hypocritical i am for obsessively calling you an IDIOT. come on...i know you really are trying to hold back you're initial thoughts and trying to think of something cleaver to say so that you can attempt at coming off as being "above" all of this "negative talk". go ahead...try me. i can handle it, from an IDIOT!

you're research skills are terrible and just because you have a family, use appropriate grammar, and can spell things correctly, does not make you politically intelligent. yes, a large part of me believes that today's politics are NOT a matter of opinion and ARE a matter of personal intelligence. you're points are weak because they are either simply not true, or completely subjective to your ignorance on history and the subject you claim to to be speaking about. YOU are an idiot! look in your mirror and face it!

"change"...LMAO...you want some "change"? well..let's see...i have about .27 cents in my pocket!..and that's worth more than you will EVER be worth, since you are, indeed, a true IDIOT.

get a clue. open your mind. and stop blindly following The Messiah and his followers and start realizing that you do NOT look at things objectively at all!

i'm tired of hearing from people who think that conservatives are the only ones responsible for the "personal attacks"...especially lately. get real!

ever since Sarah Palin has entered the picture, the democrats have been extremely anxious and in sheer panic mode...and they should be worried. Sarah Palin is a force to be reckon with!

here are a few of things i just found in about 5 minutes of looking...it's nothing new, but i was recently told from someone on the other side that the right is always attacking the left. so i need to prove the opposite is true if you actually pay attention...that the mainstream media on TV, so-called journalists, Newspapers, and so-called political websites are anything but fair on their coverage. as of today, people are scared that Obama may lose the election and they are lashing out at the VP...Sarah Palin. that's all they can do, because they have NOTHING on McCain! and the funny thing is...the more they talk about Sarah Palin in a negative way...the better off she gets in the polls with McCain. it's a beautiful thing to watch people destroy their own party once again after electing the wrong candidate (once again) and jeopardize their entire integrity with sheer stupidity.

**Politico, and Yahoo News reported with the following headline on September 9th: "Obama, Dems sharpen personal attacks on Palin." once again, proof that a purposeful intent on going after Sarah Palin has been discussed by the liberals due to sheer desperation. here is the article.

**the AP reported on September 11th that former Rhode Island Senator, Lincoln Chafee called Sarah Palin a "cocky wacko". here is the article.

**Politico and Fox News reported on September 10th, that South Carolina Democratic Chairmwoman Carol Fowler said that the Sarah Palin's "primary qualification seems to be that she hasn’t had an abortion." i still find it funny when experience is attacked to the VP when the Democratic Presidental nominee has far less experience and more importantly NO Executive experience whatsoever. Carol Fowler made an apology later on that day, but it was all clearly designed to be a hit and run and then apologize statement. classic politics. here is the article.

**the International Herald Tribune, which is known as the Global Edition of the New York Times (whatever that means), reported on Septemeber 12th with a headline that states: "Obama plans sharper tone as party frets." once again, their whole point is that the only way they think they can gain any ground at this point, is to sharpen their attacks and strategy against Sarah Palin. here is the article.

**Democratic VP nominee Joe Biden (remember him?) recently said that Sarah Palin would be a "backwards step for women". this is just a stupid comment to make and he has no grounds for it. Joe Biden has been known to have a big mouth, and this is a perfect recent example. here is the video.

**reminds me...i watched Barack Obama on David Letterman on September 10th, and he was asked about his "lipstick on a pig is still a pig" comment. yes, we all know the phrase has been used in the past by MANY politicians...but when Obama said it at that speech, he paused and allowed the audience to laugh and applaud. look again. Sarah Palin was clearly the center of attention and has been since she was introduced and everyone knew he was REALLY talking about her...plus, he KNEW what he was saying was wrong AND he knew it was at the wrong time. he messed up there BIG time, and he knows it. regardless, Obama felt the need to verify even further with David Letterman by saying, "Keep in mind, technically, had I meant it this way, [Palin] would be the lipstick. The failed policies of John McCain would be the pig, just following the logic of this illogical situation." hey Obama!...i'm not sure that the clarification actually helps you at ALL. the best advice i can give you is to get some sleep and SHUT your mouth! here is the article.

**and then there are the Hollywood jerks who are so out of touch with reality, that they feel the need to open their big mouths too. Breitbart.tv reported on September 10th that Matt Damon thinks Sarah Palin is like a "bad Disney movie" (wtf does that mean anyway?). plus, he goes on to say that he wants to know if she banned books and he wants to know if Sarah Palin thought that the dinosaurs were here 4000 years ago (don't ask...i honestly don't understand elitists who are so far outside the realm of reality). btw...Sarah Palin has NEVER banned ANY books whatsoever. that was another made up pile of BS by the liberals. how can you ban the Harry Potter books a full two years before they were even released? anyway, back to Jason Bourne and his comments...the political mastermind he is. here is the video.

**Pam Anderson also has some negative things to say about Sarah Palin by telling her to "suck it!", but this one really isn't even worth our time, but here is the article.

i'm tired...the list goes on and on...and on.

but BRING IT ON! the more liberals attack Sarah Palin, rather than John McCain...the more stupid the liberals look and the lower the ratings go. and when you talk about McCain possibly not making it until the end of a term due to his age...the stupider you look!

fine with me...KEEP IT COMING! dig that hole deeper and deeper and deeper, jack ass!

how many times have i and so many others thought that if Barack Obama had picked Hillary Clinton as his VP running mate, that election day would be a landslide? Sarah Palin wouldn't have been selected, and the liberals wouldn't be so focused on her alone. that's all we here today from the liberals...personal attacks against Sarah Palin...because the liberals know that they cannot even compete when it comes to John McCain, who is actually running against Barack Obama.

now, as a lot of us have already heard, the current running mate of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, recently even agreed that Hillary may have been a better pick than himself.



wow. that's the smartest most honest thing i've heard from the liberals all year.

i just had a thought (hey, take a picture!) but honestly, you heard this aspect from me first...don't put it past the liberals to ask Joe Biden to step down from his position as Obama's VP running mate in a "thanks but not thanks" kind of way in order to "save the country"...which would of course leave room for only one thing to happen. the return of Hillary Clinton to the ticket, which would look bad for only a few weeks...before the country would forgive Obama for being arrogant and not selecting her in the first place.

all i'm saying is, that i wouldn't be surprised...especially after this "lunch" between Bill Clinton and Barack Obama today. this election has been filled with nothing but surprises.

side note...remember what Bill Clinton originally said about Barack Obama when his wife was losing in the preliminary? it wasn't very pretty. here is a list i found of poorly compiled segments of the drama between the Clintons and the Obama campaign just months ago when they clearly hated each other:

this is truly unbelievable. as a white man living in America where i grew up constantly being reminded that i owe our fellow black man because of slavery, i feel sick. John Sidney McCain and Sarah Lousie Palin have gone out of their way to make sure that their campaign never even comes close to using the race card. the truth is, aside from the constant double standard of the "N" word debate, as white men and women, we have to dance around words to the utmost precision to avoid being called a racist. especially during this election season, we are constantly on guard due to the fear of being called a racist. that British jerk-face Russell Brand on the MTV Awards the other day said that if you don't support a black man for president, then you are racist. hey Russell...brush your greasy hair, and for God's sake...brush your filthy teeth...(and use Colgate Total because it's the best)...and i'll send ya back home where you belong if you hate America so much. these so-called comedians i used to enjoy, like Jon Stewart and David Letterman, are more afraid to make any real joke about Barack Hussein Obama...because they know they may be labeled as a racist. hey...i understand...when you're weak...you're weak.

but remember...it was Barack Hussein Obama who first said the following in regards to how the other side will try to win:

We know what kind of campaign they’re going to run. They’re going to try to make you afraid. They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?

thanks Barack Hussein Obama! you succeeded in "playing the race card" in a campaign where you have already clearly been identified as a sexist due to your attacks on Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sarah Louise Palin. and ya know what...i will continue to use your middle name, Barack Hussein Obama...why? because that's what presidents do in case you haven't noticed. in fact i may even change my middle name to Hussein too!

and now this in regards to playing the race card...i'm literally sick to my stomach today because of what i just saw on CBS and found here in this article. the governor of New York, a blind black democrat by the name of David Paterson said the following:

I think the Republican Party is too smart to call Barack Obama 'black' in a sense that it would be a negative. But you can take something about his life, which I noticed they did at the Republican Convention – a 'community organizer.' They kept saying it, they kept laughing. I think where there are overtones is when there are uses of language that are designed to inhibit other people's progress with a subtle reference to their race.

what? what? what? now we cannot even call someone whose main accomplishment was that he was a community organizer a community organizer without a black man accusing us of playing the race card? what? what? what?

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?

there are already numerous opinions and anticipations that there will be mass race riots if Barack Hussein Obama is not elected, as is the case with this co-called columnist whose name is Fatimah Ali in this article here. typical...if your candidate doesn't win, then you will cry foul and act a fool. whoops, was THAT racist? bite me!

sounds like a bunch of sour grapes if ya ask me. remember in 2000 when the left refused to admit defeat for a month while you and i paid for those people to count ballots by hand while the economy was sinking? Bush won every time we counted, and we wasted money because of sour grapes. and remember in 2004, when the "Bush cheated in Ohio" campaign started again? sour grapes again. hey i understand...when you're a baby...you're a baby.

bottom line...the Barack Hussein Obama campaign is desperate and losing as of today. who knows who will win in November (even though if Hillary was on a ticket, the election would be over already) but regardless...the country is far from ever being united on any sense...and the Barack Hussein Obama supporters are sure to keep it that way.

this is a bad day for me. little sleep, and i awake to the story of a kid being decapitated at Six Flags over Georgia yesterday.

then on Fox News, there is a story about how Barack Obama supporters have started to take "Hussein" as they're middle name too. allow me to recall your memory for you...these are the same idiots who got all hot and bother when the media came out with using his full name, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA. you were, once again, called RACIST if you used his middle name in a sentence. but now, after getting used to the name themselves, they flip flop on NOT using it...into directly promoting it! All within just a few months! kinda like how Hillary and Obama are best friends now and Obama calls them, "Bill and Hillary"...even though 6 months ago they hated each other with a passion unseen in the democratic party.

this goes to show you, ignorance and sheer stupidity are determined to follow the liberal left in America. this is just dumb in so many more ways, i won't even begin.

However, Barack Obama said the following on 06/20/08 in Jacksonville, Florida:

"It is going to be very difficult for Republicans to run on their stewardship of
the economy or their outstanding foreign policy," Obama told a fundraiser in
Jacksonville, Florida. "We know what kind of campaign they're going to run.
They're going to try to make you afraid.

"They're going to try to make you afraid of me. He's young and inexperienced and
he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black?"

way to go Barack! only you could do something so stupid.

read that again, carefully. John McCain has even been going OUT of his way to NOT talk about race in ANY way whatsoever....

and Obama brings to the table ALL he BELIEVES he has as ammo...the color of his skin. so sad.

ohh, was that a little blunt? the man had a RACIST preacher for 20 years! VERY RACIST i might add.

ohh, and that paper his wife wrote back in college about how unfair it is to be black in America IS important to me (or whatever words you wanna use to describe that rant of a POS paper, which i DID read and found to be immature, extremely offensive, with incorrect generalizations of America). in fact, it goes hand in hand with the liberal philosophy is you really study it.

i work with a few people who don't see these "other Obama friends and family member" issues as being important in a presidential race. this to me, is simply amazing.

leave it to a liberal to refuse to speak about the true character of a person whenever possible! liberals do NOT count the true character of a person when choosing a candidate. remember, these same people didn't think it mattered that Bill Clinton was having affairs with NUMEROUS women. yes, basically what i'm trying to say here regarding Obama is YOU ARE YOUR FRIENDS

it matters to me that The Father of Our Country is in deed...a true patriot, who continues to show his or her love for the the best country in the world. and a person's character, to me, is of the utmost importance as well.

but i know liberals. believe, me i do. i'm 30 years old and have been around MOSTLY liberals my entire life. roughly 1/3 of which have never and will never vote which is a small statement about the group as a whole. but allow me to move on after that cheap shot.

for YEARS i sat quietly about my conservative views until I started this blog a while ago while friends of mine bitched about "Republicans" endlessly. hell, i'm STILL forced to pull out my, "every politician is crooked" speech on a regular basis because i feel like if i can get everyone to agree with me on that...well, that's one step closer for them growing up and seeing the truth.

are all politicians crooked? absolutely, but the fiscal conservative view of the American economy makes so much sense compared to tax and spend. here it is...in an nutshell. tell me different if you don't think this is the norm. (wait...if you're liberal you may think you are reading Greek) the more money you have in your pocket the more money you will inevitably SPEND, even if you try to save every penny. However, the less i have...after increased taxes, the less i'll have to go to the movies, concerts, restaurants, and generally i'll just buy cheaper things i need to have...but once the money is put back in our pocket...most people adjust by spending it all just like before. spending money, is of course, good for America. please don't bring up the current China debacle and our scrambled international trade. i'm not in the mood right now.

and yes, i honestly do believe that as one matures politically in a "regular" way, i believe a lot more times than not, liberals become more conservative as they GROW UP. hell, i remember when i entered college...for a brief moment..i thought it would be cool to be like all of my new friends...liberal, anti-american, tree hugging, babies.

then i grew up.