Conservative Oregon cities? (Coos Bay: money, area, working)

[JasonF]

I can see how someone might get that impression at first glance. The town seems much more interested and engaged in environmental issues, with a small contingent of very active anti-war types. That doesn't mean the people here aren't also liberals on social issues, but it doesn't generally draw the same level of attention. I suspect it's because Corvallis is a fairly non-diverse town (relative to a larger cities).

[OreNative78]

Originally Posted by Verio

Wow, what a scary forum post :-\

I have nearly a Bachelors degree (I never had the opportunity to go to college like most of my liberal rich friends in high school). I enlisted in the Navy, got out after 4 years, and have spent the last 7 improving my life. Almost done with my Bachelors degree, I'm in a pretty senior position in the Fed Govt. and I'm center-right. My parents passed away right after I graduated High School leaving me with nothing.

I'm not uneducated nor unintelligent. I just don't think that it's personally my responsibility to pay for everyone else's problems. No one paid for me to go to college, I earned my own money and paid my own way. No one held my hand when I went into the Navy, I did that on my own.

Yes, the tax problem in our country is terrible. Get rid of the corporate loopholes and make the tax fair for everyone. Fair is a relative term, but how does it make sense that with some of the tax laws people are proposing that a family making 250k a year, makes less than a family making 240k?

When every single house that a family of 4 or 5 needs to live in, costs 300k+, how is a family supposed to pay for it, without making an absurdly large salary, while subsidizing everyone else's fiscal problems?

While I'm terribly excited to move to Oregon, I sure as hope I don't have to deal with some of the disillusioned people in this post.

My whole point is this, due to some of the great programs we've enacted in this fine country, everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) has the opportunity to excel, no matter where you came from. I came from a backwoods, po-dunk town in Oregon with 5k people. Look at where I'm at now. No one paid my way.

Uh, no one but the Navy, right? That's called the government. Defense spending increasing double over the past 10-15 years, on the backs of the shrinking middle class.

You're welcome.

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perry to the left. touche!

[skylar0201]

Originally Posted by OreNative78

Uh, no one but the Navy, right? That's called the government. Defense spending increasing double over the past 10-15 years, on the backs of the shrinking middle class.

You're welcome.

EXACTLY!

It makes ZERO sense when people put down the gov't when they RELIED on the gov't for a job or services ( like tea crappers saying they want less gov't BUT they don't want their social security, medicare and medicaid touched! )

I commend the fellow for being in the military--that is a great honor to be proud of, BUT saying nobody held their hand or gave them help, when they relied on the gov't for a job, is an unintelligent response.

About defense spending, yes, it has MORE than doubled in the past 10-15 yrs. Did anyone know that if Obama just cut all excessive military spending and removed all the tax cuts, we'd go from 14+ billion in the red to almost exclusively in the black within 4 yrs?!?!? Just based on those two spending facts alone--and touching nothing else. Of course, these won't happen because the corporations don't want it to ( our REAL bosses who run this nation! )

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I don't understand why the post are outdated. one cannot connect with anyone on the posts. Can this flaw be corrected?

[PNW-type-gal]

The thread has the blue clock symbol on the left to indicate that the thread is an older one, and that people had stopped commenting on it until you brought it back up - the last post before yours was almost 3 months ago.

ETA: I see from the other thread that you are probably asking why old threads aren't locked or deleted. The answer, pretty much, is: because that is not how City Data chooses to do it.

[Ihatecali4ever]

Wow! Some more of that good ol' Leftist "tolerance" and "multi-culti". NOT! Liberalism TRULY is a mental disorder! LOLOL!

[bar20]

I am sure the OP left this thread a long time ago. You politicos have turned this into a boring tirade about liberals & conservatives. There are plenty of political boards out there, now go find them!

[Dual Citizen CA-OR]

Originally Posted by Ihatecali4ever

Wow! Some more of that good ol' Leftist "tolerance" and "multi-culti". NOT! Liberalism TRULY is a mental disorder! LOLOL!

Yeah right and conservatism is a venereal disease.

[msapdx]

Originally Posted by metaljaybird

Used to be, you had to be a large property owner to vote. There is something to say about a nation that allows massive amounts of dependents vote. Not saying I'm against it, but of course, certain liberal enclaves are going to have higher taxes against the middle class and wealthy if the majority of their constituents fall under the poverty line.

metaljaybird- are you aware that the wealthiest areas of the state are overwhelmingly liberal? Have you ever heard of the West Hills, Laurelhurst, Alameda, Irvington, Portland Heights or Lake Oswego? Are you aware that the tax money the wealthy urban liberals pay goes more into poor rural conservative counties than stays in Portland?