What makes the economy work? Not the government. The American consumer does. You spend and companies will keep up production to replace the items that have been sold. Corporations will use tax breaks to invest in their own company. Maybe they will buy newer or upgrade manufacturing equipment. It's how business' expand.

I like keeping more of my money. I can use my money on whatever i want; A new car, house, stereo, furniture, or whatever i feel like spending it on. It's my money, not yours.

The far left Democrats like to raise taxes and keep them high. Why? Because (and they will tell you this, too) they create and fund current programs. The part they don't tell you is that it keeps people dependent on the government. I don't bash welfare. There's people in need of help and we should help those WHO REALLY NEED IT, which is the elderly and children. Not lazy asses who want to sit home and watch Oprah and collect a check on MY dime. I hate wasteful spending.

Would you walk down your street and give away 27%, or more, of your paycheck to the people on your street? Hell no. Well, that's what the majority of today's far left wing Democrats like to do. Redistribute wealth. Instead of creating an opportunity for individuals to go get an education and get a job, these socialist bastards prefer to keep poor people poor. How else can it be explained? Under 8 years of Bill Clinton, the same people who were poor then are poor now.

I like (unlike the Bush administration and other Republicans) like to keep government small. Why? It keeps spending down. It keeps people from being too dependent on Uncle Sam. The Constitution does not guarantee anyone to be rich or poor. It guarantees you the right to be happy and prosper and do your thing. To be able to dream and then live your dream, if you have the ambition. Big government taxes people and business. And when i say business, that means ALL business. Once again, that includes the mom & pop convenience store on the corner. So, when everyone is over taxed, money is poured into programs to keep people dependent on the government. Of course, the Bush Republicans that had control of Congress from '02 to '06 spent like drunken sailors with no end in sight. Idiots.

Big government also includes too many laws. Why not ENFORCE the laws we already have? Do you want the government to tell you you can't smoke in YOUR car? Don't smoke? Oh. Well, when the government gets involved with YOUR personal life, that's going to lead to more laws and restrictions. Want another example? Do you wear a seatbelt when driving or riding in a vehicle? If your state has a seatbelt law, you bet. Don't wear it and you get a hefty fine. Sure, seatbelts are safe for the most part and i wear mine. But, back in the early-mid 80s, the states had to create that law or lose federal highway funds. There's the government in YOUR life. Oh, here's another example. In New York state, you cannot use a cellphone while driving. Yepper, i know alot of motorists are careless with them, but so are the one's smoking (like me), tuning their radio (me again), talking to their passenger (me one more time), & screaming at the kids in the back seat (not me...no kids).

Take the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (one of many) during the spring of 2002. By watching network news, you were thinking the Israeli army totally destroyed the West Bank town of Jenin. Not so. They tore apart a large neighborhood where Palestinian terrorist suspects were hiding. The leftist media said, "Oh, they just went in there and killed the people." No, it was an armed conflict. Now, you are entitled to your opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but i prefer to get the whole truth.

Another one is the "Arsenic in the water" issue the Democrats were screaming about in 2001. The left will tell you Bush wants to poison you and your children. What the media didn't tell you was, that the Arsenic levels were the same during the Clinton years. Why didn't Slick Willie change it back then?

Then we have Mr. Leftist himself...Peter Jennings of ABC News saying during the 9-11 attacks, in regard to President Bush flying from Florida to Louisiana to Nebraska, that "He should be in Washington giving the people some leadership, but some presidents are better at it than others." What pisses me off about that moronic statement is
1)During the 9-11 attacks, the Secret Service was in charge. Their job is to protect the President at all costs.
2) Jennings should keep his idiotic comments to himself and just REPORT the news.

I believe he has the right to give his opinion, but there is a time and place for it. Just report the damn news, Peter. That's your job. If you want to give your opinion, then you should get your own own talk show. Not gonna happen though. Nobody would listen to his leftist crap. I should mention that Jennings was a Canadian citizen and gained U.S. citizenship a year or so before he died in 2005.

Then we have Mr. Leftist #2, ol' Dan rather of CBS News. During the 2004 Presidential Election campaign, Mr. Rather saw fit to get another story going about George W. Bush's National Guard record. Turns out that the source was a documented Bush-hater. Dan's staff didn't thoroughly check the story and source out very good. They ran the story and a ton of web bloggers and other internet folks found out the documents were forged using modern day Microsoft Word Processors. BWAH HA HA HA! Busted. You idiots. But you know what? The media here never ever questioned John Kerry when he ran against Bush about his DD180 form. That was about Kerry's military records. Kerry wouldn't sign and release the form. Nope. The media gave him a free pass on that and then got busted on the Bush Nat'l Guard crap. Haw.

Then we have the dopes on the left who hate Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Fine. I can respect that. But these idiots watch and listen to all those and then cry about what is said or reported. I've never understood that, for the life of me. People watch FNC, listen to Rush/Hannity and then cry and whine the rest of the day about what is said? By the way, i don't listen to Rush or Hannity on the radio so stick that in your orafice, because i KNEW that you figured that i did. Right? Haw.

Ya know something? If something irritates me as much as these shows do some liberals, i don't tune in. It's that simple.

Al Franken? Haw. I wouldn't listen to that liar if you paid me to. Yes, i can post a ton of lies and misrepresentation by Franken.

Phil Donahue? I watched his show a couple years back (or whenever it was) and then changed the channel. It was that dumb. It was cancelled due to nobody watching it. Hee hee.

I never watch CNN, M$NBC or the other loser cable shows. I watch NBC Nightly Snooze for kicks. I miss Brokaw. Brian Williams is doing ok.

I never read liberal newspapers online, either. Too much bunk/spin and they always leave out important facts that the usual American doesn't bother searching for to see if there's any truth or misrepresentation to it.

How about this unbelievable idea?? Let's enforce the laws we already have on the books. We do? No we don't. Poor Johnny had a rotten upbringing and was an abused child. That's why he shot is family to bits. Oh. Ok. Let's give him probation. Maybe he'll learn his lesson. Slap that hand and send him home. Hell no. Put him in prison for 40 years and see if that makes your street safer. Sure does. That creep ain't crawling around no more.

Why don't parents educate their kids on the use of weapons?

Maybe it's normal, though. How many times have you seen a parent ask a crying child, "Did that bad old rock hurt your knee?" You have to blame something else, don't you?

People seem to have no problem blaming the firearms for deaths in Anycity, USA, even though logic will tell you that the person holding the gun was the guilty party. I doubt if she or anyone else would blame an automobile for a deadly crash, or a knife or a hammer for a death.

Why do people have to pick on a gun? It's simply a tool like any other inanimate object. Weapons used in gun crimes might be a semiautomatic weapon, like millions of hunting rifles in homes all over the world.

I personally don't understand the attraction of a rifle that looks like a military weapon, but I have no problem with it. It's like a Volkswagen Beetle with 12-inch racing tires. It looks fast, but it's really something else entirely.

No, the National Rifle Association doesn't own the White House or Congress, and the lawsuits that the NRA is fighting are the frivolous ones that blame the manufacturers of firearms for crimes committed with firearms.

I should say also that the NRA isn't trying to arm everyone but rather to guard the legal ownership of weapons for personal protection and sporting activities. Rocket launchers and fully automatic weapons are illegal, and the NRA fully supports those laws.

Remember this old saying? Outlaw guns and only outlaws will have guns? How about this: Outlaws and the government will be the only one's with guns.

Abortion IS NOT a right given in the U.S. Constitution. Where is it in there? It ain't. Look at the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

This country has freedom to be religious or to not be. Got it? If i want to practice Wiccan or the Church of Satan, that's my right. I don't practice those, by the way. Quit telling people that those religions can't exist.

Then we come to the atheists. You guys (and the ACLU) really make yourselves look silly by all the crap you pull. A majority of Americans are really getting sick of the forced secularization being thrown in our faces. I recognize your right to be atheist. Just quit trying to erase religion from the USA, ok? It ain't hurting you... unless some religious nut case is knocking on your door 3 nights a week.

Some blowhards in this country spew about the "separation of church and state" over and over. There is NO such thing in the constitution. The proposition in the constitution was not that the church and state should be separate, but rather that "Congress shall make no law regarding an establishment of religion." In other words, the state should not establish a religion.

A fair reading of the Constitutional history must lead one to the conclusion that the founding fathers were united in their opposition to the state religious establishments in Europe; from the Pope ruling over Catholicism to the Church of England controlling and controlled by a Sovereign.

America was established as welcoming and protecting the free expression of religious beliefs of all kinds. The prohibition was not meant to squelch religion or the practice thereof, but rather to prevent the state from taking over religion and using it as a tool of control.

Somehow, we must erase this heretical phraseology regarding the "separation of church and state." This statement itself is a creation of the secularists who would use the repetition of this concept with the intention of eventually destroying all churches, in favor of the state.

Think about that.

• They like to destroy the enviroment.

• They want to lay waste to land and lakes.

• They want Arsenic in the water.

• They want to kill the animals in the Alaskan National Wildlife Preserve while they drill for oil.

Bullshit. This is a dangerous group of people, the environmentalist radicals. Not the typical American who wants clean air and water and so on. Look at groups like the Earth Liberation Front. These stupid crack-pots go around burning down apartment complex's under construction and automobile dealerhips that sell the EVIL s.u.v. and a few other deeds. All in the name of the 'environment'. These assholes are nothing but domestics terrorists. They need to be arrested, tried and sent to jail.

I don't wanna hear that "they just want to make a better life for themselves" or "they do the jobs ordinary American's won't do". Bull - Shit.

First, if these people want to make a better life for themselves, stay in their country. Make your OWN country better.

Second, jobs that illegals take are one's that have been deflated monetarily by the employers. (Let's fine those employers for breaking Federal law, too.) They pay these people little to nothing and these illegals think they are making some big money. Of course they are, compared to the third world cesspool they came from. But, if they pay an illegal $4 an hour to lay bricks when it USED to pay $7 an hour, you tell me what American is going to work for that?

Third, these INVADERS use up our social services meant for U.S. citizens. They have NO right to ANY of our social services. Yet, they fill up the hospitals and the dumbass lawmakers in Washington D.C. make laws to provide WELFARE for these people. Take a good look at California. That state has been RUN OVER by illegal immigration. And the DEMOCRATS in California have made it soooo appealing to these people by making laws as i stated above. Illegal immigration has damn near bankrupted California. I say we should DEPORT each and every illegal immigrant we come across. No, i'm NOT racist.

Most Americans have ancestors who came to America from other countries to find better lives or escape persecution, or for many other reasons. Many of those people were so thankful to have made it here that they got down on their knees and kissed the ground. They had to promise to uphold our laws and give allegiance to this wonderful country. They even worked very hard to learn English and to make sure it was spoken in their homes.

Those immigrants from long ago didn't have anything handed to them on a silver platter. Many of those immigrants fought for our country. They did so because they loved our country and had gone through the proper channels to make it their home. They were here legally.

There's a difference between a legal alien and an illegal alien. Whenever people do something illegal, they're expected to pay the consequences.

If people really want to assist illegal immigrants, they should help them go through the proper channels to become legal. These immigrants shouldn't expect amnesty or special treatment. It's a privilege to live here and be a citizen of the United States. It's not something that those from other countries should expect to have simply handed to them.