Just One Thing

[JFN1]

I have been doing some rather diligent research this weekend. I have been attempting to find a single conservative sponsored/touted policy or law that, once enacted, bettered life for average Americans.

I cannot find even one.

Not a conservative sponsored law. not a conservative policy.

Zip. Nada. Nothing.

If my search were crickets, it would be a symphony of chirping.

In fact, I found that most laws and policies touted as 'awesome' by conservatives resulted in damage to the average American, with benefits accruing only to the rich and to corporations.

So tell me - do you know of any conservative policies that have helped you, or anyone you know?

[suede1]

1. Thought about this before. No, can't think of one.

[hedgehog]

2. Conservatives assume that there is no room for improvement.

Things may not be perfect, or even reasonable, but what can you do since humanity is fatally flawed ever since the Fall of Eve!

[CTyankee]

3. Have you forgotten how much wealth has been created and has trickled down

to all of us because Republicans have supported American ingenuity and hard work? I mean, just look at the French. They don't even have a word for "entrepreneur"!

Oh, wait...er, sorry...

[rurallib]

4. Not sure where you would put the interstate highway system

that was created under Eisenhower. That is about all I can think of.

[SheilaT]

5. Eisenhower was not

a conservative, certainly not by today's standards. He was a Republican only because the Republicans persuaded him to join them so they could get him to run for President. He was not an ideologue.

For those who don't know, Ike made a cross country journey in 1916 (I think that was the year) and it took nearly a month to get there. He realized immediately that we were going to need some kind of national road system, and when he eventually became president was able to get it started. I suspect there was a lot of support out there for the interstate highways. I'm old enough to remember when there wasn't much of it, and we drove from Utica, NY to Tucson, AZ in 1962. Much of the journey was on what today are secondary roads, and I'm not sure we were ever able to avoid driving through the heart of the large cities we passed through.

AAA used to do a huge business in mapping out road trips for people, because figuring out how to get from here to there was a heck of a lot trickier in those days.

[leftstreet]

6. Research Nixon n/t

[JFN1]

7. Okay, one. Maybe.

The space program and men on the moon - but since Kennedy really started the space/moon program, I wonder if it can truly be counted as a conservative issue...I kind of think, no, it cannot...

[leftstreet]

8. OSHA, EPA, Guaranteed Minimum Income (although it failed)

In many ways Nixon was more left than the 'left' of today.

Even his War on Drugs was to use 2/3 of the money for treatment and prevention.

(He was kinda fascinating in a way.)

[LWolf]

9. But was Nixon really a conservative? nt

[leftstreet]

10. Good question

The term 'conservative' seems to have as many subjective definitions as the terms 'liberal,' 'progressive,' and 'moderate.'

Oddly enough, to my self-identified 'conservative' family, friends and acquaintances (not the Rush Limbaugh types) things like single payer healthcare are considered 'fiscally conservative' and overall a very good idea.

Politics R getting nutty!