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So the term "class-warfare" bothers you? How about "socialism?" Please explain how having the government determine what jobs should be high-paying, and what companies should produce, is "conservative?" C'mon, make my day.

Who said anything about the government determining what jobs should be high-paying? Where did this claptrap come from? All I expect out of the government is to provide for our country’s common defense, represent OUR interests overseas and to stay the hell away from meddling in the business sector unless an issue involves national security.

That means NOT taking payoffs from corporations for the importation of hundreds of thousands of H1B immigrants to swamp our high tech employment market in the middle of serious recession with huge layoffs. It means we don’t sign 10,000 page One-Way trade deals with 3rd world nations that have no rule of law and are little more than job exporting agreements. It means that our government doesn’t encourage illegal immigration on behalf of businesses that seek cheap labor while shuffling off the staggering welfare bills to American Taxpayers for their free health care, free schooling, subsidized housing, food stamps, bilingual programs..the list goes on and on here.

It means that I expect our government to stay out of the corporate welfare business period and put the interests and security of its citizens FIRST. From what I can tell, you seem quite comfortable with the symbiotic relationship of the big government, big business money/welfare game. You wouldn’t ply your trade on K-Street would you?

Conservative, you are not. A true conservative wants income taxes eliminated on ALL businesses and dividends (it’s a phony back door tax that the consumer pays for in higher prices). A true conservative is for a flat income tax rate that confiscates less than 20% one’s income (personally I’d like to see it lower than that). A true conservative is for the elimination of burdensome, costly regulations on business and the sunsetting of all grab bag entitlements and affirmative action programs that are putting our government into financial insolvency. Where is Bush on all this? Where are YOU?

You are incorrect. At a minimum, one would expect a conservative to consider the consequences of his proposals. At a minimum, one would expect that a conservative who claims to put "the interests and security of its citizens FIRST" be cognizant that the policies he proposes do the opposite. At a minimum, one would expect that a conservative have a basic grasp of economics and facts, instead of relying upon slogans about "the rich" and "third-world countries." At a minimum, one would expect that a conservative who is against "burdensome, costly regulations on business" be in favor of lower tariffs and more trade.

Finally, at an absolute minimum, one would expect that the anti-NAFTA cadres, whose allies include such esteemed personnel as Teamsters, Greens, and out-and-out socialists, explain the rise in real income, the drop in unemployment, and the increase in industrial production that distinguished the period after NAFTA was enacted.

And before you accuse me of only paying attention to the "boom" of the 1990's, I will remind you that I am not the one who is running around and yelping that the sky is falling now.