This is actually Redstate.com. The HuffPo is over that-a-way. Just follow the trail of entitlements, and make a hard left at Socialism Way, then follow your nose. Can’t miss it.

but you can’t tell one much, so there really isn’t any reason to discuss anything with one.

You got one thing right: free medical care *is* something people have come to expect.

But then you jump from there to writing about it as if an *expectation* creates an *obligation*.

Come back when you can show how the former implies the latter.

Rather than deride you, I’ll take you up on your “challenge”.

First of all, I don’t care about what any other country does, what their tax rates are, or how they treat their people. That’s their problem.

To address several of your points: the FDA doesn’t prevent egg “infection”. They don’t inoculate chickens. The FDA only responds in a crisis, and poorly at that. The FDA is focused on pre-market. So is the USDA, for that matter. Once it goes to market, it’s the consumer’s issue to deal with. Did the eggs kill anyone? No.

What crumbling infrastucture? I’ve never in my life driven on a crumbling road. Where do you live?

Uninsured people, or people who can’t pay their bill, shouldn’t get treatment. If I don’t pay my car payment, the bank comes and takes it back. Don’t have insurance? You can’t pay your hospital bill? You don’t get treatment. Personal responsiblity.

By living in this country, the only things you should be entitled to are the rights granted by the Creator and protected by the Constitution.

Equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome.

I don’t care what they do in Europe, or Asia, or Africa. I care what happens here, and only here. Child poverty? Life’s not fair. Suck it up. Maybe when the child grows up, he’ll try like hell to stay out of poverty and better himself, you know, rise above, rather than succumb. Economic Darwinism.

Enough about worker’s salaries. You don’t get educated, you get a crap job. That’s life. Deal with it. Everyone and their mother owns a big fat TV, cell phone. Quality of life in this country is higher than ever, even while consumers are deleveraging.

On to your real question. What to cut… BUREAOCRATS.

Flat 20% VAT.
Kill the income tax, corporate tax, and payroll tax.. except for SS and Medicare.
Department of Education. Return education to the States.
Raise Medicare contribution for those under 40 years old.
Raise SS Contribution for those under 40 years old.
Eliminate public sector unions at local, state, and federal level.
(This is where most RedStaters will disagree with me)
Close all overseas military bases and bring all troops home. In 2 years, when Hitler II rises to take control of the world, mobilize for war and redeploy military as needed. Think that’ll jumpstart the economy?

I think that’s a good start.

And above all, STOP WRITING REGULATIONS. The CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) is 165,000 pages. You are likely right now to be in violation of at least 100 federal rules. You criminal.

Not on an all or nothing basis, but on a graduated basis and implement it gradually over time.
(1) the fiscal crisis will be averted for the moment
(2) the political use of those programs by the feudal lords . . er Democrat party will begin to unravel—making way for future reforms.

Entitlements are lack crack cocain to Democrat politicians. Time to start withdrawal

isn’t that they’re ignorant, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronaldus Magnus

Classical liberalism (called conservatism today) is timeless. Liberty is priceless. The threat of tyranny and its useful idiots is perpetual.

Mike

Note that an article saying that somone is saying she will do it is worth about 2 lbs of used kitty litter

The “stealing” crap has a lot of people, myself included, wondering how in the World we’ll ever get along with Millers paranoids. That only happened in their fantasy world. One DC jackass tried and failed to bully some Elections workers and even then he wasn’t doing what Miller’s paranoids were saying he did.

Nobody in their right mind would try to run a write-in campaign in Alaska. This is why it is so hard for those of us who’ve actually been around poltics and government find it so difficult to deal with all you newly minted “true consevatives.” You believe and repeat every paranoid, ignorant speculation and are played like cheap fiddles.