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Level -> RE: Why are conservatives happier than liberals? (11/13/2006 12:30:39 PM)
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But I also see many conservatives as being more positive, having a can do spirit.
Hello A/all,
While I suppose I agree that conservatives tend to talk endlessly about their can-do spirit, the empirical evidence supporting them actually doing much that is positive with it is alarmingly slim.
They oppose safe water, it gets in the way of corporate profits. Some do.
They oppose safe food, see above. Some do.
They oppose protecting US jobs, see above. Some do, along with some Democrats.
They oppose making the minimum wage a living wage, see above. Some do.
They promote destroying the environment, protecting it gets in the way of corporate profits. Some do.
They endlessly promote little government. But then you look at what Monkeyboy and Reagan did which is to essentially out-source big government to corporations like Halliburton. This is not eliminating big government, it is simply adding extra layers of cost to it. Some do.
They oppose government programs like Welfare, Medicare, etc., that were initially designed to prevent people from starving to death. The reasons given are that these programs are too wieldy to function effectively. I would suspect this is a euphemism for corporate america wanting the Government to outsource it to them. Some do. And Clinton did a good job with Welfare reform.
They see Social Security as something which is a huge pit of money to be re-invested and stolen by incompetent or downright evil corporate America. Failure to do this gets in the way of corporate profits. There is virtually no difference between the two parties on this, and one of the leaders against such actions is a Republican, Pete Peterson.
They support Big Pharma's and Big Medical's general attitude that health care should only be provided to those who can pay the big bucks for it. The flip side of that coin is that Big Pharma and Big Medical do not want to have to negotiate with the Government on the cost of providing universal health care. This gets in the way of corporate profits. Some do. And some, like Senator Grassley, have fought hard to get cheaper medicine for Americans, and to force the FDA to be more transparent in their actions.
Most conservatives I speak are generally uneducated about these sorts of issues, and frequently fall back on corporate sound bites which they cannot explain in depth or place in any sort of contextual framework that correlates with objective reality. Corporate sound bytes are as useless as non-corporate ones, ahem.
So I suppose I agree with the idea that "Ignorance is bliss."
Sinergy
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