Fiscally Conservative Democrats -- Not Necessarily a Contradiction

By Got Shares? - K_Yew | March 5, 2010, 11:42 am

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During one of the worst recessions in modern history, the senior citizens' lobby wanted to take $250 from working people and put the money into their own pockets. The measure failed, because the following Democratic Senators exercised restraint:

Bayh (D-IN)
Bennet (D-CO)
Carper (D-DE)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Levin (D-MI)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Nelson (D-NE)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Udall (D-CO)
Warner (D-VA)

Both of Colorado's Senators appear to have good financial sense.

Dianne Feinstein seems to have enough job security to vote against the lobby's demands. Sadly, Barbara Boxer voted for the bill and seems to be doing everything she can to lose to Republican Tom Campbell in the next California election.

Russ Feingold did the right thing (he seems to do that a lot).

Bernie Sanders from Vermont, who sponsored the bill: you need to go back and take grade-school level math. No cost-of-living adjustment means no significant reported inflation. If prices didn't go up, why do benefits have to go up? If you have a beef with the reported inflation numbers, then you go and address that issue. Please don't run straight to the taxpayers every time you get a harebrained idea.
About Got Shares? - K_Yew

Bottom line about the way I think: we are born the same, but create patterns over time based on our lives that make an open mind less of a possibility. The key is to try to place yourself in different situations as much as possible to shock your system and force it to think differently; otherwise, the brain's natural course will be to calcify the patterns it picks up from limited local experience and the media, instead of reality.
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