Conservatives are smarter than Liberals.

actually, liberaler states tend to have higher iq's than conservative. http://www.vdare.com... meaning they're probably smarter by standardized tests. things like the new deal were good at that time. it grew into something bad. the bible says to tax people and save in case you need it for the future when htere's problems ahead. laissez faire without governemnt intervention at all has caused people to not be able to find jobs at all, and to work for anything they could get their hands on... in the past. in the US it's not so much a problem necessarily but that is the ultimately end of pure non interventionist capitalism. also, the poor is getting poor and the rich richer. now, there's something to be debated for why... but to assume that this is simply okay or that capitalism is correct is baseless. see the below quotes for more info. also, you're making a false dichotomy by saying liberals are dumb and conservatives are smart, socialism v capitalism.... cause the US is not either, and theoretically, a system can be a mixture of both, and then it's not either. so, liberals and socialism isn't necessarily accurate. if you want to talk about extreme liberals, then sure. i think you'd be surprised there's not as many extreme ones as you'd think. ------------------- Genesis 41 is about the wisdom of instituting taxes, not cutting them. After Pharaoh had a dream that prophesied seven fat years to be followed by seven lean years, Joseph advised him to "appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years...and lay up corn under the hands of Pharaoh." In other words, a 20 percent tax on the grain harvest would put aside food for use during the famine. Pharaoh took Joseph's advice, and Egypt avoided hunger during the famine. CBO numbers for after-tax incomes show that in 1980, the richest fifth of our country had eight times the income of the poorest fifth. By 1989, the ratio was more than 20 to one. Income inequality, as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau, fell from the 1940s to the late 1960s, and then began rising. Inequality surpassed the 1950 level in 1982 and rose steadily to all-time highs in 1992. (Census Bureau's "Money Income of Households, Families and Persons in the United States") european companies are socialistic and look at this (not that we should be either or, just that there's some good to it): The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708. The United States ranks 19th in life expectancy and 20th in infant mortality among 23 industrialized nations, according to the CIA's 1993 World Fact Book. The U.S. also has the lowest health care satisfaction rate (11 percent) of the 10 largest industrialized nations (Health Affairs, vol. 9, no. 2). -------------- i do acknowledge the number on health above can be interpreted many ways, but it's showing some socialistic components are not necessarily all bad. even if gov intervention when we'd rather none means lives saved and such, it's still somewhat good right? whatever the case, when 20-30 year olds can't afford a basic surgery, when back in the day they could, there's something fundamentally wrong with our system.