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Outside of the usual laundry list of platitudes of "we need change, we REALLY need change, big time!! I mean to tell you, WE NEED CHANGE!! CHANGE!! CHANGE!! Did I tell you that we need CHANGE???", the only two concrete points that Kathleen Sebilius, the Democrat responder to President Bush's State of the Union, mentioned were: socialized medicine for "the kids" and "we need to go green". Oh, and by the way, "if we don't CHANGE (to the Dem plan) immediately, we're all gonna die tomorrow."
1. Socialized medicine for "the children": whatever happened to parental responsibility?? Are parents not responsible for the children they bring into this world?? Is the sense of responsibility for one's actions completely dead in the Democrat Party??? Is Big Brother, or Auntie Government, supposed to take care of us now?? Oh, and who FUNDS the government, by the way??? Those who actually work. If the Dem outlook is taken seriously, then it's hello "Brave New World" and goodbye life of dignity and self-respect.
2. Going "green": of course we all need to work for a cleaner earth -- cleaner air, cleaner rivers, lakes, and oceans, a cleaner earth; yet, at what cost??? To blindly follow what some of these unnecessarily SELF-crippling Kyoto-type measures would do PRIMARILY to the U.S., while leaving other major polluters (China, Russia, India, Brazil) completely free to continue THEIR pollution, as they build up their industrial and military capabilities, is simply suicidal.
Yet again, the Democrat response to whichever Republican happens to be in the White House is simply to go off into the dangerous la-la land of asking others (Big Brother/Auntie Government) to do our own personal responsibility and, in the case of the AlGore-type green frenzy, self-cripple while others laugh and pollute the earth even more.
In other words, the Democrat response is, in effect: "America is not worthy to lead the world anymore (if it ever was), and we're happy to follow the lead of others, be it China, Russia, or India, even Hugo Chavez; anybody BUT the U.S."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/...nse/index.html
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