Well, you first missed my original point with your initial comment. Then you missed the spirit of the comments with this last one. My comments were only thumbnail generalizations and were more or less as valid as the rural Republican generalizations made by the liberals on this board. (In all honesty, I really just liked the way I worded the original question.)
Anyway, with that said, generally speaking (and very generally), Republicans seem to flock to private sector enterprises and the creation of new businesses(which lead to more jobs for others poor folks like me) and a significant percentage of liberals flock to university and government jobs, which don’t do a lot to leverage and maximize capital.
Are there substantial exceptions and divergences?
Millions of fantastic liberal business people in the US? (Most aren’t too liberal, as we agreed.)
Of course . . . point well taken. Got it.
Really, the over-arching point to my brother-in-law was that liberal tax policies (if enacted and they might not be by Obama) may kill the golden goose of American business (especially in CA) and speed up our decline, a decline that is looking more and more like the U.K.’s economic decline before World War I when it started to face increasing US competition.
In sum, we are attempting to maintain our historic standard of living (for everyone) before we faced all of this international competition through increased government spending and taxes and creating “service and financial economies” . . . all of which were noble attempts, but we are papering over our problem. From a regulatory, tax, energy, and fiscal perspective, we must be more competitive to keep REAL jobs in the US, i.e. not investment bankers.
Based on current events, I hope it is not too late.
