The fate of the Republican party?

Originally Posted by russotto

Doing a bunch of Democratic-mainline feel-good things doesn't do a thing for people in the armed services. There's no connection between the two; you're just exploiting them the same way the Republicans are often (correctly) accused of doing so.

HUH? Kitsune seemed to be responding to Walrus's post which ended with "We expect to sustain these greedy little lives forever, not realizing that the polices that support this greed, are based on violent and opressive trade practices. I laugh at what the democrats and the Republicans call free trade. In essence if every American scaled back, we could probably afford not having to be so agressive in our search for resources and products, but this will never happen I'm afraid. We'll persist in such a manner until this country runs itself into the ground. Forgive me for trying to find a way out."

I was merely giving some modest suggestions as to how one might scale back without all that much effort. I assumed that the point of this discussion was that the average American expects to spend their life as a bloated energy/oil/natural resources pig without having to lift a finger. Meanwhile, we expect that the members of our armed forces will give up their lives for our careless lifestyles. My apologies to all if I misunderstood this.