On Dec 7, 7:02*am, Martin Brown
wrote:
On 07/12/2010 11:35, wrote:





On Dec 7, 4:18 am, Martin
wrote:
On 07/12/2010 00:14, wrote:

On Dec 6, 10:55 am, Martin
wrote:
On 04/12/2010 13:32, wrote:

On Dec 3, 5:34 am, Martin
wrote:
On 03/12/2010 00:45, wrote:

On Dec 2, 3:57 am, Martin
wrote:
It is difficult from your posts to determine how much further to the
extreme right you are than the Neocons though. The lunatic fringes of
conservatism are very ill defined.

The terms "left" and "right" refer ONLY to socialists, a group which
includes both communists and fascists. Communists are on the left and
fascists are on the right. *Conservatives do not fall on that
political spectrum at all; we are neither left nor right, nor anywhere
in the middle of that morass.

You will have to do better than that if you want to be taken seriously.
You have defined yourself as not any of the above without saying
anything about what you believe in. I am still no wiser about what you
mean by saying you are a "conservative". You have not defined the word.

Low taxes, less government, equal rights, strong national defense,

You already have two mutually incompatible requirements in that line..

Nothing mutually incompatible at all.

OK. But you cannot have a big strong army and small taxes.

The US can have a strong military and smallER taxes.

Unless you
have an army of slaves that you don't pay properly - and that has its
own risks. The hardware costs are insanely high for modern warfare.

Modern weapons are more effective.

Strong national defense costs very serious money. And a powerful army
with an inadequate civilian government is a dictatorship.

A weak army almost guarantees that a (foreign) dictator will
eventually run your country, unless you have a powerful, stable ally
to save your hide and keep the peace.

So how low do you think taxes should be?

Much lower than they are now.

Lets have a number % and then we can examine what things will have to be
cut...

Almost any reduction will do for a start and we should not have to
endure a tax increase (Bush tax cuts will expire soon and the
socialists are playing politics once again.)

Lets have a number - the lowest that you think will support a realistic
military defence force (bearing in mind how much it costs for every day
of the Iraq crusade and maintaining the Afghanistan puppet government).



As for what to cut, start with discretionary spending then start
phasing out some of the "mandatory" spending.

Chances are you don't believe in having roads and bridged maintained -

Fact is you are wrong.

I am surprised. You sound exactly like the sort that would drive around
in a tracked vehicle destroying the roads for everyone else.



* a
frightening number of US bridges are rusting away now. One on I-35 fell
into a river spontaneously at Minneapolis and highlights the failings of
the US system. It had a pathetic maintenance regime.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20102713/ns/us_news-life/

Bridges never collapse in th UK...do they?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/we...ia-floods-hero...

Only when provoked by a once in a century storm that had river water
levels 20' higher than normal. Whole tree trunks were washed down and
smashed into the bridges that failed. The bridge failed because of
immense forces against it not through appalling maintenance practices.

The I-35 bridge was overloaded, based on its original design. In 1988
it was decided to increase traffic from four lanes to eight. Since
Minnesota went for Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election, we might
assume that Democrats might have made the decision to increase the
number of lanes.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/we...s-two-more-fea...

You are very selective with your cherry picked dittohead factoids.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet