Democrats

In October 2009, Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry won the mayoral race with just a few more Republican votes than were cast in 2005. But part of his success may be due to the fact that thousands of Democrats who voted in 2005 stayed home.

Nobody — not even Republicans — wants poor people dropping dead in the streets because they can’t pay a doctor. Okay, maybe some libertarians do. But I’m not a libertarian. I’m not opposed to all taxatation and all government. But I am opposed to the disastrously misguided attempt by Congress to “reform” our system of paying for health care.

There is no bottomless pit of wealth. In fact, lIberals’ socialist vision of America’s future is eroding the spirit of enterprise that is necessary to create wealth. They are gobbling up the last of the bread and the cake and there are not enough productive bakers to replenish the supply.

The $825 billion federal stimulus proposal presented by House Democrats this week proposed $275 billion in tax cuts and $550 billion in spending. That’s $25 billion less in tax cuts than the figure President-elect Obama has used in recent weeks.