Do conservatives realize their time is over?

Question

Young Americans are more likely than the general public to favor a government-run universal health care insurance system and the legalization of gay marriage. They have continued a long-term drift away from the Republican Party.

What it comes down to is Republicans act against young people's best interest. Tuition increases well above the rate of inflation and stagnating minimum wage means larger loans to pay for college. By any other name, that is a higher tax that what I ever had to consider.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/washington/27poll.html?em&ex=1183176000&en=08bb067788cbf27f&ei=5087%0A

Answer 1

Bush cries...
At least I'll always have
my teddy bear Jeffy boy to turn too...

Unka Dick
The American people won't
give me what I want....WAHHHH!!!!
(Dubya stomping his little
foot on his tricycle pedal)

Conservatives were the WORST
thing that ever happened to America
(Other than President Frankenstein Cheney)

Answer 2

What do Republicans have to do with States raising tuition?

Especially since most of those states have Democrat controlled legislatures.

If your talking about education funding, then Bush has increased education funding at twice the rate Clinton did.

Bush increases Federal Education funding 60%
Clinton increases Federal Education funding 29%

Bush increases Pell Grant funding 56%
Clinton increases Pell Grant funding 35%

1993 federal education budget - 32.4 billion
2001 federal education budget - 42 billion
2007 federal education budget - 67.3 billion

1993 federal pell grant budget - 6.4 billion
2001 federal pell grant budget - 8.7 billion
2007 federal pell grant budget - 13.6 billion

On gay marriages, 73% of America are against them.

The citizens in every State have made gay marriage illegal, it is not a conservative/liberal issue.

Yes the courts overturned the laws the citizens made in a couple of states.

But there is no way you can say conservatives had anything to do with making gay marriage illegal in states like Maryland, MASS, CONN, etc. those states legislatures are dominated by liberals.

Plus the fact, the the only Federal anti gay law ever passed, was passed by a Democrat-- The Defense of Marriage Act.

On national health care, the Democrats have blocked national health care all three times it has been before Congress. In 1973, 1978 and 1994.

All three times, the Democrats were the majority party in Congress, in all three times, they refused to allow the bills out of committee to be voted on.

Most people who say they want national health care, have no idea what the cost would be. We currently spend $5,000 per person, per year for those on medicare. If you do that for 300 million people, thats 1.5 trillion dollars a year. The 2007 federal budget was just 2.6 trillion.

Not even mentioning, with a government ran national health care system, the government would have to own all the hospitals, clinics and labs. The cost for the government to buy all the privately owned hospitals, clinics and labs would be several trillion dollars.

And on your statement that the conservatives time is over.

Explain why this new Liberal Congress, has the lowest rating in American history for any Congress ?

The last Republican Congress had a 37% favorable rating and look what happened, the current Congress has a 24% favorable rating.

Answer 3

I think you're really misreading the tea leaves!

The Republicans are in disfavor right now because they weren't acting conservative ENOUGH when they got their majority.

Ask most disgruntled Republicans why they are so furious and they will say it's because the Republican majority kept acting like they were the minority, Kennedy, Pelosi and Reid still seemed to run things, and the Republicans even compromised their principles and went along with Democrats.

So the current climate isn't one where voters are saying, "We reject conservative principles of individual freedom and liberties and we embrace socialism and government control." But rather, it is, "What other option do we have, since it looks like Republicans are just as corrupt and useless as Democrats!"

This is why, while Bush's poll numbers are in the 20's and 30's, Congress is lucky to break to low teens in approval ratings.

Really, much more of the country is embracing Libertarian and Constitutionalist values more than ever before. The only problem is, the two major parties have a stranglehold on the political process.

Believe me, if our voting system allowed a single voter to check more than one box in the booth, thereby checking both the Libertarian AND either Democrat or Republican (so they don't have to vote "defensively" against a negative candidate), the Libertarians would SWEEP the elections.

The problem has been, and will continue to be, that people are afraid to spread their vote and allow the candidate they DO NOT want to get in to win by a majority. So voting has been a defensive thing vs. what people really want.

Answer 4

What do you think causes tuition increases? Maybe shoveling more money into a system with insufficient infrastructure, meaning demand outstrips supply, and leading to increasingly restrictive rationing via price increases?

How does a stagnating minimum wage lead to larger loans? Should we just pay you $40,000 a year for an hours work so you won't need loans? Taxes when the government takes away your money, not when it refuses to force others to give you more of it. Which makes an artificially high minimum wage a tax, not the other way around.

The Democrats are attempting to leave young people with spiraling payroll taxes to pay for wealthy Baby Boomer's Social Security. Such entitlements (Medicare/Social Security) will effectively consume the entire existing federal budget within a few decades, leading to massive tax increases, meaning you will find it far harder to save for retirement (don't think Social Security et al will be there for you in 50 years). How is that acting in our best interests?

Sounds to me like too many young people aren't capable of understanding what their best interests are to begin with, not bothering to look into what the outcomes of what they're actually being offered are. Your mindset take take takes, and doesn''t want to work or think. That's stunted in the concrete stage of cognitive development, never having made the leap to formal operations, i.e. to functional adulthood.

Answer 5

Hmm interesting, but I've been in the trenches with the young people (college). I was the president of a very large college republicans on a very large campus who's teachers were liberals for the most part. Not only did we have better numbers then the dems we were also able to shut them down. Poor turn out and the campus realizing they were idiots closed the doors for their little group. The young are not as dumb as you say they are.

Answer 6

Perhaps you should look at some demographics in the US. The baby boomers are going inot their 60's and 50's and are the largerst growing segment. Look at the voting tendancies of that group and rethink your postulation.

Answer 7

ROFLMAO


Not as long as the liberals/democrats keep putting those lame candidates in to run. They haven't won a presidential election in 15 years and they won't.

Answer 8

If it's in the NYT, it has to be true.

When the revolution comes, I'm sure that I will be the first with my back against the wall.

Answer 9

When does a young American become a conservative?

When his liberal heros tax the living shirt out of him!

Answer 10

So now that you have won are you willing to settle down and concentrating on earning a six figure income and lower taxes? ( please stop waving that victory flag in front of my Porsche, I just had it detailed,oh, by one of you young Americans)

Answer 11

Young Americans are always more Liberal.

They do more drugs, listen to the Grateful Dead, have unprotected sex.

Then they grow up, stop being naive, and become Conservatives.