16. Your fiscal conservatism is appalled by the concept of no bid contracts granted to Halliburton and others, especially given the Vice President’s probable conflict of interest.
17. You believe that contracts with soldiers such as their periods of enlistment ought to be honored rather than ignored.
18. You believe in a return to the long established and highly useful tradition that those in command in the military ought to be reprimanded as well as any of their troops, especially when the troops in question seem to be following the spirit of what they were ordered as was the case with the torturing of prisoners by techniques that would not be allowed in US jails.
19. You believe that those in command when a military unit goes rogue and deliberately kills innocent civilians ought to be fired as well as the actual perpetrators.
20. You believe that simply changing the definition of torture is not sufficient to claim there is no torture being conducted.
21. You believe stupid mistakes or faulty intelligence data that get us into war are one thing. Deliberate misrepresentations and deceit are another.
22. You find it ludicrous to hear the President insist he will stay in Iraq “as long as anyone wants to do us harm” which means effectively we will be there forever. You believe that when someone says something stupid he ought to be called on it.
23. You find it ludicrous to hear the President insist he will stay in Iraq “as long as anyone wants to do us harm” which means effectively we will be there forever.
24. You owned stock in 2000 and wish it was still worth something.
25. You earn a wage for a living and would like to continue earning it rather than seeing your job taken by someone in India or China.
26. You can add 2 + 2 getting the same number three times running and wish the politicians, accountants and CEOs could too.
27. You are appalled to discover that some company CEOs have each singlehandedly managed to steal more money than all the armed robbers and welfare cheats in the entire history of this country put together.
28. You find it embarrassing that CEO salaries are thousands of times larger than the employees even when the CEO is caught running the company into the ground.
29. You don’t believe any CEO deserves to be paid over $100,000 per day.
30. You got at least a C in history, social studies, math, geography, geology and biology and wish that was a prerequisite for office seekers.
31. You recall from history that a “patriot” was someone who rebelled against King George, not someone who automatically supported his government, right or wrong.
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