For example, an inevitable but oft unspoken implication of better wages, benefits, and job protection, typically advocated by liberals, is higher consumer prices. But conservatives have an even harder task, since their primary financial backing comes from large businesses and wealthy individuals, with whom the average student, wage earner, or retiree has relatively little in common. It's very hard, for example, to convince the public that it's a good idea to run up the national debt, that ninety percent of a tax cut should benefit the wealthiest ten percent of taxpayers, and that the profitability of business justifies the plundering of natural resources, the fouling of the environment, the exploitation of workers, and the victimization of consumers. Here we will examine some of the conservative buzzwords in this year's campaign, and attempt to distill their true meaning to the ordinary citizen in light of the candidates' and parties' historical statements and practices. Adequate national defense.
Affirmative action is unnecessary.
Now that everyone else has labored to put most of the wealth and power into the hands of middle-aged white males, let's just call everything even and let bygones be bygones. Costly and error-prone conservative concept of the right to die. The conservative Congress deserves much credit. The Republican-dominated Congress set a record for initiating a continuous string of mostly fruitless investigations, to distract public attention from its failure to accomplish much of anything worthwhile. Permitting the profit motive to override the public interest.