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I use to be a true blue Conservative. I believed in what they said.
(A) Let businesses be free to make money and it will trickle down to us.
(B) Allow the wealthy to keep more of what they earned and they will earn more and in doing so will make us richer.
(C) Cut taxes so I can spend more of my money.
So IMO this is what happened.
(A) They were left free to ship jobs out of the country I use to live in leaving a lot of people unemployed. It never trickled down, it went out.
(B) They did earn more and instead of making us richer they made themselves richer and us poorer.
(C) Yes they did tell me they would cut taxes and sometimes they did, so I went to the mall and bought goods made in their Chinese factories. But I had to pay more in taxes on fuel to get there, the roads were not maintained and when I got sick thank God I live in a country that believes in Free Health Care. If it were left to Republicans I would spend a fortune in insurance to find it does not cover what I have or get a bill for $100k to cure it.
But I'm not a Socialist either.
To me it seems politicians are either in it to fill their pockets or worse still to make the beliefs and ideals work in the real world.
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