On Monday, August 20, 2012 10:10:43 AM UTC-6, Michel Boucher wrote:
> Gary > wrote in :
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> > Once I took 2 semesters of Economics in college years ago, I
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> > tend to follow the Republican beliefs of financial issues but
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> > that's where it ends. Once the Republican party got in bed
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> > with the Religious Right, they lost me bigtime.
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> Although two semesters of economics is not a lot, I suspect it's
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> a lot more than the current leaders of the gop.
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> We have two types of conservatives in Canada, the ones that
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> belonged to the old Progressive Conservative Party (yes, I know,
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> it's a oxymoron, but it's politics) who feel for the most part
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> disconnected from the bible thumping yahoos who have taken over.
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> One used to be able to have an intelligent conversation with a
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> Conservative (I remember the Joe Clark government had some bright
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> people), but it's no longer possible. They seem to be more like
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> angry little children who destroy things because they "don't like
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> them". And that is largely their basic policy. Destroy anything
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> they don't like.
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> Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected
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> from happening.
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> -- Barbara Tober

Michel you are so right...these new CONservatives want to destroy
everything they don't like. Nothing like angry little evangelicals
when it comes to vengeful government policy.

A pox on them, I say.

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