THE REAL ANGER ... TO THE REPUBLICANS 

The Democrats are just doing what we all knew they would do if they ever regained control in Washington. We knew what Democrats were about:

• Wealth confiscation and redistribution
• Centralized power in Washington
• Combating individualism
• Promoting the collective
• Strengthening labor unions
• Weakening business management
• Demonizing CEOs
• Condemnation of capitalism and economic liberty.
• Ending self-reliance
• Promoting government dependence

We knew all of this, and yet we did the unthinkable and put them in our nation's driver's seat. We're now getting what we asked for. There will be more. Little goodies like imputed income and ETIs (Economically Targeted Investments) are quite probably on the way.

But ... the Republicans. We knew what Democrats are, and they have only reinforced our thoughts since they took power. Our real problem here is that we didn't know what the Republicans were. We actually put these people in office thinking that they were going to cut the size and the cost of government. We thought we could rely on them to be defenders of economic liberty and limited government. We couldn't have been more wrong. They promised to get rid of the useless Department of Education. They didn't. Instead, they doubled federal spending on education. They were going to get rid of the Commerce Department. They didn't. When it came to pork spending and big government the Republicans proved themselves to be the equal of Democrats. They even managed to create a grand new welfare entitlement program that will speed our course to bankruptcy; the prescription drug program.

The point here is that it is somewhat useless to slam Democrats for being Democrats. We knew the Democrats were snakes when we picked them up. Someone should have warned us about the Democrats. Oh, wait! Someone did! Well, you should have been listening. Democrats didn't con us. Democrats didn't fool us. They may have fooled the ignoranus voters who bought this "Change You Can Believe In" crap .. but not us. It was the Republicans who conned us. We didn't think they would turn out to be Democrats with nicer suits ... but that became our reality.