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Are you a Republican or a Democrat?
Sometimes the best way to understand a complex subject is by analogy. I know I was helped by this many times in my education.
The economy can be likened to a small puppy. When the puppy is eating well and healthy he grows and gets stronger.
The government is like two dozen ticks that are consuming some of the energy of the puppy. So long as the ticks are kept small, they don't hurt the puppy too much and he can still grow.
The ticks can be seen to represent fat public employee pension plans, local politicians making huge salaries and benefits, congressmen and senators with huge staffs of highly paid bureaucrats, executive branch staffs of thousands and thousands, etc etc.
Right now government spending at all levels are taking so much of the energy from the puppy that he is failing to thrive. He is not gaining weight as he should.
The democrat solution to this problem is to raise taxes and take even more energy from the puppy, which will likely make the puppy lose weight and become ill.
The republican solution when the puppy is failing to thrive is to lower taxes, so the puppy has a chance to become healthy again.
Some democrats are pointing out that parts of the puppy are really doing very well. They point to the heart of the puppy and the brain of the puppy. They want to pull energy from the heart of the puppy and the brain of the puppy since those parts of the puppy are doing very well.
Are you a democrat or a republican?
Stone: Bush was head of one of the bigger ticks and he didn't mind if his tick and the other ticks got a little fatter. He thought that the puppy could handle it, Obama on the other hand wants the ticks to take the puppy down to the size of Kenya or Zimbabwe.
17 Answers
- StopandthinkLv 49 years agoFavorite Answer
Just to clarify the intent of the ticks: I don't believe they actually think they're doing harm. I think they believe they are helping the puppy because each tick and contribute to the puppy's mobility by somehow lifting the puppy and taking the carcass to wherever it needs to go. But they feel they can't do it yet because the ticks aren't big enough and aren't plentiful enough; that's why they need to take "just a little more" from the puppy - in order to help the puppy.
The point is that they have good intents. I don't believe their intent is to kill the puppy. I think their intent is much more honorable, to try to help some of the puppy's natural deficiencies. But in doing so, they've created problems so much worse than the deficiencies they were trying to resolve (and often make the very problems they were trying to fix, worse).
I just don't want the tick-lovers to think they're bad people. I know what they're trying to do and I'd love if it could work. But it simply doesn't.
- 9 years ago
Small Government Democrat, heavily influenced by the libertarian views of an elder Barry Goldwater.
- ?Lv 79 years ago
The government educates the puppy, builds roads to travel on and protects it with its military so it can thrive. The puppy has no clue how much it is helped.
I'm a democrat
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- Anonymous9 years ago
That's a very biased analogy. Democrats HELP the puppy, and so do Republicans. I has to do withe the candidate and his policies. And the Dems don't take away "energy", they higher the taxes where they need to and who they need to (the rich).
Are you a con?
- Anonymous9 years ago
I am Registered Democrat and Vote Republican.
I registered back in 1976, and back then, it was the Democrats who usually fielded a dozen or so candidates for the primary, and my parents told me that the only reason to register with any party was to participate in Primaries.
SO, I registered DEMONcrat, and play operation Chaos. Like I have voted for Jessie Jackson twice in a Primary, but NEVER voted DEMONcrat in a general, except for some local politicians.
- 9 years ago
i am libertarian but i support Ron Paul witch is a republican because Libertarians don't get any attention
