>>>I guess I'd fit into the "hard workers". I'm middle class, but I live in a house that appraised for just under 1/2 million and is around 7k sft. I built it myself though, put my life savings into it and still owe about 280k. I'm also a cop, so you should know that means I don't make a ton of money there. Then there's the consulting thing and I do ok with that.
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>>Just wondering where you fit in since George W Bush in his own words has defined his base as the Have's and Have More.
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>Well, that was his attempt at humor because the liberal press likes to say the republicans are all rich fat-cats. Hmmm, name one democratic senator who isn't a millionaire. Ted Kennedy has a few coins, as do the Kerrys - even though they never worked a day for it. Neither side of the isle is comprised of "common men". On the other hand, here in the US, the south is pretty solidly republican when it comes to national elections. Bush is up in every southern state from Kentucky to Florida and we are mostly just hard working people who believe we know better how to spend our money than the government. I fit in as a person who would be an anarchist, if they would quit burning the meeting announcements!<vbg>


Unfortunately it is very difficult for an ordinary middle class person to be elected, so you are correct that most politicians at least on the national level are millionaires. I always thought it was very strange that you would have to spend millions of dollars to get a job that earns maybe a couple hundred grand per year. Must be the power trip.

Anyway, I'm a fiscal conservative, somewhat a civil libertarian with some anarchist views, I burn the meeting announcements too. I am a more social liberal than most republicans and think the religious right is way too out there for me. I don't think that gay marriage is any threat to marriage. If you don't want to marry someone of the same sex, don't. Leave my constitution alone. Separation of church and state goes both ways.