Last week my boss (flaming lib) and I were arguing about this, he said I should be supporting democrats because republicans fought against regulation. I had sent him some info on this stuff before he said this. I just sort of looked dumbfounded. This is a very educated man, and a very very nice man but he buys the lies too. I don’t think there is anything you could say or do that would change their minds. I really don’t understand it.
Actually, in some insane way, that does make sense. Generally speaking, republicans do not support regulations. Generally speaking democrats do support regulations.
The problem here is that most people don't understand that it all depends on WHO we are regulating.
Democrats NEVER want to regulate the spending of public funds. For example, the Senate has a "Pay-Go" rule. This rule regulates government spending. It say's the if you pass a spending bill, you can only pass it if you can "pay" for it as you "go". If the money isn't there, you can't spend it.
Yet the democrats have ignored this rule constantly, and with such massive spending pork bills as the Farm Subsidies, always spending way more than they can pay for.
Similarly, they have no problem with Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac blowing tax payer money without any regulations.
Alternatively, they have no problem regulating GM or Walmart who provide jobs.
This is because they don't want any restrictions on what they can do, only what we the public can do. You heard it yourself in the video. The exact same rules they apply to all privately run banks, didn't apply to the government sponsored companies Fannie and Freddy.
Republicans are the very reverse. This is because most... not all, but many understand that taxes money is OUR money, and they have responsibility to steward it correctly. Similarly, a private corporations money, is not their money, and they don't have the right to control it.
This is the great dividing line in our political ideals. The liberals believe it is about them. That we exist to supply them with funds. And that they can do whatever they please with 'their' funds as they wish, but we can not. Do as I say and not as I do.
Conservatives see government as required evil, that should be given as little as possible because it's our money, not theirs. And they should be controlled and regulated, not us.
