Roberta/Joe is still calling me a Communist

Yes he is still calling me a communist. So lets take a look at the definition of communism from the Websters Dictionary. A theory advocating the elimination of private property, a system in which goods are owned in common and available to all as needed, a doctrine based on revolutionary Marxian socialism and Marxism-Leninism that was the official ideology of the U.S.S.R. Let me make this clear. I do not subsribe to that way of thinking. In the political spectrum there is the left, in which would be communism and there is the right which would be fascism or conservatism, and there is the center. For the most part the left and the right stay the same, but it is the center that moves. Take Justice John Paul Stevens for example. He was appointed by Gerald Ford, a Republican President. As this country has moved from a center left to a center right nation, Justice Stevens decisions looked like they were leaning more and more to the left, when actually they have remained the same as when he was appointed. An example of our countries move to the right, you just have to look at some quotes from the 1956 Republican Platform. "Gradual reduction of the National Debt." Since Reagan both Democrats and Republicans have gone away from this and now look at the position this country finds itself in. "Reduction in taxes with particular consideration for low and middle income earners." That sounds like a quote from the left of today only it was from the right in 1956. "Initiation of a sound policy of tax reductions which will encourage small independent businesses to modernize and progress." Both Democrats and Republicans are guilty of giving tax breaks to large businesses and screwing the small independent business owner. Look at the energy bill (Cap and Trade) John Kerry and Joe Lieberman introduced yesterday. It gives tax breaks to oil companies all of which are based outside this country, so they don't have to pay any U.S. income tax. Why would we give tax breaks to anyone not paying taxes to begin with? It's our oil. They are getting our tax dollars to take our oil and our profits out of our country and not putting anything back into our country, and our government is helping them do it. How much money has Kerry and Lieberman gotten from the oil companies? It sure would be interesting to find out. Big business is basically running our country at this point by paying for politicians campaigns. Once in, the politician then owes the businesses that donated to him or her. This borders on what Mussolini did in Italy in the 1920s. Only Mussolini just replaced the government with business owners. Our Congress might as well be on the payroll of businesses because that's where the majority of their money comes from. On my bio I consider myself fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I love listening to Ron Paul, a true Libertarian and I consider his views excellent. But and that's a big but, he has the mindset that the free market will correct itself. It would, if everyone acted ethically and honest. Instead we have British Petroleum at their hearings on Capitol Hill this week saying that they would be responsible for the cost of the cleanup in the gulf oil spill. B.P. knows full well that the cost will be in the billions even though by law they are only responsible for 75 million dollars. A law signed in 1990 and written with the help of big oil companies. I am against both Democrats and Republicans who were put into office by the people, but get nothing in return, meanwhile big business gets represented getting everything they want. Obama is living up to that saying from a past blog, "Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss."