tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380332481433385691.post5176104912351162090..comments2024-01-04T09:33:57.399-05:00Comments on MiltonConservative: Republican @ 20 .vs. Democrat @ 40BillMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338116017515403295noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6380332481433385691.post-4832832163809735692013-11-05T19:05:06.806-05:002013-11-05T19:05:06.806-05:00If you vote Republican (Canadian Conservative) at ...If you vote Republican (Canadian Conservative) at 20 it is precisely because you do have a heart.<br />When you grow up in a house where you sometimes had to use baking soda for toothpaste or the sears catalogue for toilet paper,<br />When your mother's homemade macaroni and cheese didn't quite fill up everyone at the table and you were told to fill up on bread,<br />When Halloween was seen as an opportunity to get as much candy as you could because you knew you weren't getting much more than that for the rest of the year,<br />When you went to work at the age of eleven delivering newspapers because that was the only way to have something of your own,<br />You begin to see that's the way your world is.<br /><br />And then you grow older and become aware of the breadth and the scope of the waste and corruption all around you.<br />You see the annual interest payments on the government debt and wonder how many people could be housed and clothed and fed on money they've thrown away borrowing against their children's, my children's future.<br />You see people being incentivized to have children they can't afford with the promise of a government handout knowing they have taken away your ability to support more children of your own in the two bedroom apartment you share with your wife and two kids.<br />You see billions wasted on feel good tripe like gun registries that could save many more people if they were invested elsewhere.<br />You see bad behaviours being reinforced by the unintended consequences of bad government decisions.<br /><br />So, you resolve that they only way to fix that is to get the waste off the books by voting for fiscal conservatives.<br /> dance...dancetotheradionoreply@blogger.com