[grooveless touque]

edit: I was hoping to get this in before anybody responded. I am not "reaching"; I was making a point about the Bush tax philsophy that some people cling to...see below...

Note: I am probably overstepping my bounds by invoking specific states and circumstances. Just because I care so much about American politics at the national level doesn't really mean I give me the "absolute" right to throw around knowledge and opinions about people and what's wrong with them. I don't mind talking about liberals and conservatives, but I don't want to piss off American board members by having them feel I'm getting too personal with certain demographics.

All I was trying to do is make a point about the paralyzing fear of the tax-and-spend system that has worked so well for countries like Canada and Sweden. We have our own problems to contend with, but I don't feel any of them are a result of tax-dollar investment in public infrastructure. The "me, here, now" attitude that virtually all Bush voters adopt is recklessly selfish and the half-trillion-dollar-plus deficit is evidence of its ultimate unsustainability.