According to a recent study - ideology trumps *facts* when it comes right down to it. And I will take it further to say that many of you don't even know what your ideology *IS* but cling to some idea of the self-applied label when pushed to 'think'...
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Anyway, I hate the labels we are all stuck with these days and propose that no one set of labels fully describe anyone well enough but we sure are comfortable throwing them around, aren't we? Sure, I am a liberal that believes in Choice, (some) gun control and social programs; I also have some conservatism and libertarianism in that I believe in not passing/deferring our national debt on to the future Americans and keeping Corporate America afloat does not make sense to both say 'regulation restricts a free market' and 'help us with $700BILLION as the free market is hurting' by deregulation (thanks again Bush, your presidency will keep on giving for decades to come).
Think Bush isn't the one to blame for this current $700B debacle? Check out what the White House press release from 2004 has to say on it. If you don't think his deregulation of the mortgage market isn't to blame, you should vote for him again in 2008!
Of course we could just trust Henry Paulson with the $700B and ZERO OVERSIGHT, after all he did spend 30 years in and running Goldman Sachs Group Inc. What was I hearing about that company recently...? Oh yeah - our govt. agreed to BAIL THEM OUT with some cash. Perhaps Paulson will pay back some of his TAX EXEMPTED $500MILLION in stock he was 'forced to sell' when taking the President's offered Post 1.5 years ago. Yup - tax free, 100% of it.
McCain't gonna happen...
