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Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life

“The Miracle of Birth,”

“The Miracle of Birth,part 2”

 Part II: “Growth and Learning”

 sex education

rugby match. 

fighting each other part 3 

 live organ transplants part 5

the autumn years part 6

suicidal leaves  

death part 7

i’m so close to packing everything into a truck and just bailing .
so couldn’t pay bills this month because Matt lost his job
we are now way behind on everything

if he hadn’t lost his job. we would of been fine . i was exspecting another 1200 this month
normally bills are paid by the 12th. but since he got back and they fired him i held that paycheck in the bank i can’t spend it untill after rent
I just caved yeasterday and bought groceries
totals for the month are right around $3275.81 due out i usually budget about 4k

but this month ..

my best friend is moving to San Francisco and all around i’m having a bad day
and i think i have a lump. in my boob
i have a court date on the second for a car i don’t even own or control
i don’t even know what freaking TIME the thing is

i got pulled over because we are stuck in a catch 22. $3000.00  has to be payed before we can register the car in CA.
we don’t have 3k and the ticket is for it not being registered we have been trying to pay off a ticket or 2 a week.
but what was slated to go to parking tickets this summer had to go to my tooth for  that root canal
1000.00 for running a stop sign and they never even sent a court notice until 6 months after the court date !
you can’t call them .. every time we have tried we have gotten busy signal then hung up on .
were no showing up down their Matt has a bench warrant out

this is a bad month

a few short answer questions because i think the real meanings have been lost in translation:

in about 3 or 5 sentences define the following terms as you understand them in the current political environment.

define , a Conservative

2conservative
Function:
noun
Date:
1831

1 a: an adherent or advocate of political conservatism b: capitalized : a member or supporter of a conservative political party2 a: one who adheres to traditional methods or views b: a cautious or discreet person

Fiscal conservatism( what your actually refering too when your talking American politics)

Fiscal conservatism is the economic philosophy of prudence in government spending and debt. Edmund Burke, in his ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’, articulated its principles:

…[I]t is to the property of the citizen, and not to the demands of the creditor of the state, that the first and original faith of civil society is pledged. The claim of the citizen is prior in time, paramount in title, superior in equity. The fortunes of individuals, whether possessed by acquisition or by descent or in virtue of a participation in the goods of some community, were no part of the creditor’s security, expressed or implied…[T]he public, whether represented by a monarch or by a senate, can pledge nothing but the public estate; and it can have no public estate except in what it derives from a just and proportioned imposition upon the citizens at large.

In other words, a government does not have the right to run up large debts and then throw the burden on the taxpayer; the taxpayers’ right not to be taxed oppressively takes precedence even over paying back debts a government may have imprudently undertaken.

Outside the United States, “liberal” often refers only to free-market policies. For example, in Europe “liberal-conservative” is an accepted term. Differences in meaning and usage of the terms “liberal” and “conservative” have contributed to a great deal of confusion, and often the words seem to be used with no more meaning than “us” and “them”. Conservatives and classical liberals are “allied against the common enemy, socialism,” but classical liberals are less suspicious of big government than conservatives.[8]

define neocon/ or neo-conservative

interest in international affairs including through military means

Neoconservatism is a political philosophy that emerged in the United States from the rejection of the social liberalism, moral relativism, and New Left counterculture of the 1960s. It influenced the presidential administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, representing a realignment in American politics, and the transition of some liberals to the right of the political spectrum; hence the term, which refers to being ‘new’ conservatives.[1] Neoconservatism emphasizes foreign policy as the paramount responsibility of government, maintaining that America’s role as the world’s sole superpower is indispensable to establishing and maintaining global order.[2]

define liberal as it is used in the current democratic party.

Within liberalism there are two major streams of thought which compete over the use of the term “liberal” and have been known to clash on many issues as they differ on their understanding of what constitutes freedom.

unfortunately this is the current state of the liberal philosophy the social liberalism…

[5] Social liberals argue that governments must take an active role in promoting the freedom of citizens. They believe that real freedom can only exist when citizens are healthy, educated, and free from dire poverty. They generally favor the right to an education, the right to health care, and the right to a minimum wage. Some also favor laws against discrimination in housing and employment, laws against pollution of the environment, and the provision of welfare, including unemployment benefit and housing for the homeless, all supported by progressive taxation.[4]

the problem is with this type of nanny state you strangle personal liberty and the right to fail, and the right learn from failure. the down side to this is starts a road to a socialist state . and communism is BAD.

Social liberalism advocates some restrictions on matters that economic liberals view as fundamental rights. For example, social liberals may favor minimum wage laws, which classical liberals view as violating of the liberty to contract. Social liberals argue that power disparities cause contracts to favor the rich. To which economic liberals reply, “Then don’t sign.” Of course, if a group did indeed refuse to “sign”, as in a strike, the voluntary, mutual withholding of labor from an employer, economic liberals have employed–at least on a historical basis–totalitarian means, such as armed government soldiers to use force and coercion upon workers to “urge” them to “sign”; what is good for the goose is not good for the gander,

bonus: actual meaning of liberal in a traditional sense…

Classical liberals believe that the only real freedom is freedom from coercion.[4] As a result they see state intervention in the economy as a coercive power that restricts the economic freedom of individuals and favor laissez-faire economic policy. They oppose the welfare state.

Liberalism emphasizes individual rights and equality of opportunity. Different forms of liberalism may propose very different policies, but they are generally united by their support for a number of principles, including extensive freedom of thought and speech, limitations on the power of governments, the rule of law, the free exchange of ideas, a market or mixed economy, and a transparent system of government.

what have become libertarians

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test closed only one person perticipated :

from here on out i will call a spade a spade
if someone comes to me and says they area “liberal” i will require them to define what there liberal belif is.

if they say “ya know like obama.”
i will say ” oh, big imposing goverment and no personal freedom… your a socialist move on.”
but if they say . “you now more person freedoms .”

I will say , “oh like smaller government and stuff? your a libritarian.. go open a dictonary and get out of the DNC, and come join us in the revolution.”