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Actual conservatives are a precious few in national office. I believe you are referring to the bible thumping neo-cons masquerading as conservatives during election cycles though. They offer the same thing the other side of the aisle offers; monumental waste of tax dollars, infringement on personal freedoms, and endless bureaucracy. The only difference is in where the money is spent and who is infringed upon.
I think you need to ask yourself what Democrats have to offer when they are running cities in the ground!
We thought Bush was bad? Obama tops all records!!!
Yet NYC and SF are two of the most successful cities in the states with very high GDP per capita and are liberal dominated, especially SF. Clearly, liberals running cities to the ground.
Then why do liberals always want to tax them. Never heard one say tax me for what I want.One only has to look at ACA funding to see.
I am still at lost to respond to this sort of argument. For decades, fiscal responsibility meant balancing our budget and that sometime meant high taxes (see Eisenhower).
Only in the past few decade did "fiscal responsibility" mean slashing tax cut for the rich, handouts to big corporations, unfunded wars, and creation of large and inefficient bureaucracies, then screaming chicken little that we are not balancing our checkbook.
Yet NYC and SF are two of the most successful cities in the states with very high GDP per capita and are liberal dominated, especially SF. Clearly, liberals running cities to the ground.
The top ten poorest cities in the US right now have not had a Republican in office for at least 23 years.
City, State, % of People Below the Poverty Level (pop. 250,000+)
(U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey, August 2007)
1.Detroit , MI 32.5%
2. Buffalo , NY 29.9%
3. Cincinnati , OH 27.8%
4. Cleveland , OH 27.0%
5. Miami , FL 26.9%
6. St. Louis , MO 26.8%
7. El Paso , TX 26.4%
8. Milwaukee , WI 26.2%
9. Philadelphia , PA 25.1%
10. Newark , NJ 24.2%
Democrat Party Rule in these Cities
1.Detroit, MI hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1961
2.Buffalo, NY hasn’t elected one since 1954
3.Cincinnati, OH …since 1984
4.Cleveland, OH …since 1989
5.Miami, FL has recently elected it's first Republican in the cities history
6.St. Louis, MO ….since 1949
7.El Paso, TX has never had a Republican mayor
8.Milwaukee, WI …since 1908
9.Philadelphia, PA …since 1952
10.Newark, NJ …since 1907
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