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11. You trust the democrats more than I believe they can be trusted.
Mon Feb 18, 2013, 08:43 PM
Feb 2013

Perhaps a larger number of democrats and a smaller number of republicans as you suggest (and for a longer time), but while the democrats have a better track record; the democrats come up with programs that don't work too.

I think we're better off with a closer balance. Of course I used to believe the conservatives had a legitimate philosophical difference with the liberals; they aren't doing much to seem sane - let alone have a legitimate philosophy.

Eisenhower was a good president and while Nixon had his problems; he signed the Clean Water Act and the legislation that created the EPA. It provides some balance to the government to have a republican signing democratic bills.

It doesn't work worth a damn the other way around, but there needs to be some level of balance.

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