Kalen,
Man, give me a freakin' break! First, like you with several of your buddies, I am just having fun. Second, unlike you, these back-and-forths are not my stlye- my attention span is just too short.
Kyle,
There are typically a number of perspectives on any topic. But once you distill them, they typically come down to the individual vs. the collective. I could care less how a group of like-minded people organize themselves into a collective to pursue their interests as long as they don't then drag me into it against my will.
I am back in Texas in no small part because of how the folks in your wonderful state have decided to be governed. My biggest fear with Democrats in general and President's Obama type in particular is their incremental, continuous, to-the-death attempt to Californicate the country. All this current spending, the upcoming Cap & Tax and/or EPA's current finding of CO2 as a pollutant (enabling it to bypass Congress and impose carbon restrictions under its own authority), socialized healthcare is all part of it.
There was a very good reason why the Constitution was written the way it was, why we sat out as a republic with a federalist system, and why a major departure from the restrictions it placed on the federal government were made relatively difficult (the amendment process). If every state is like CA and NY- broke and hyper-expensive- where are people like me to go? I know that the collectivists could care less so long as we keep making our tax payments and quit whinning about it.
Right Kalen? Oh, one more thing, both parties are hardly the same. Both may be bad about many things, but hardly equivalent. We are too often put in the situation of choosing between the lesser of two evils with the full knowledge that either way we go, we are just forestalling disaster. The time is getting short.
And now back to having fun.
