Conservative Catch-All

Thanks Linda. 

Thank you for starting this thread. I avoid posting in most political posts because of the anger on both sides, and unfortunately am too thin skinned to not take some things said personally. I read almost all of them though. It will be nice to see a more conservative outlook without all the nastiness (from both sides).

I’m hoping to learn more about the memo. I read the whole thing and I am definitely not informed enough to have an opinion yet.

As far as taxes go, I do payroll for the small business I work for and everyone’s federal withholdings went down. Depending on what they claim on their W-9 it was between 18.00 and 40.00 for semi monthly pay. All but 2 people are salary wage workers so they get paid the same every paycheck unless we get bonuses, so it was easy to “see” the difference from last pay roll. It may not seem like a lot to some people, but to these guys it’s helpful. 80.00 a month to one gentleman covers diapers for a few weeks for his & his wife’s unexpected pregnancy they just found out about. (She had her tubes tied 2 years ago). This is the same gentleman that begs the boss not to give him a raise or bonuses because it will wreck his healthcare coverage. It’s a sad situation they are in with the health care choices in this state. You can call a dr’s office and ask if they take Kaiser they say yes, so you sign up with Kaiser then you go to your dr’s appointment and they say “oh we don’t take “that” Kaiser. It’s maddening. Not sure that getting rid of the mandate will fix that issue at all. Hopefully someone with a bright mind can fix the healthcare/insurance mess our country is in. There has to be away where everyone is satisfied. Dr’s with ridiculously high college loans need to be paid a decent amount, but medical costs and prescription costs are ludicrous. There needs to be a complete overhaul.

Another thank you for starting this thread. I have not logged in in many months because things just got so vicious here.If the memo turns out to be true then heads had better roll. I also hated almost everything Obama did and stood for, but I would bite back at conservatives that would comment on his dress or anything related to Michelle (outside of her ridiculous lunch stuff)or the kids. Heck I even stood up for Michelle when she made the comment about the White House being like a jail (I know I would hate being monitored 24/7), but lately here the common folks are being attacked just because we disagree with them. I have stopped watching most TV (I will watch ID AHC etc, but not mainstream networks) because I am just so sick of all of it. I expect to hear Trump is breathing wrong any day now. To hear that he is sooo racist now, is laughable. He has been in the public eye for decades and has helped the inner cities and has gotten praise from Sharpton for it, but now he's a racist??? And when did he say he was against LGBTQ community??? I do consider myself fairly liberal on many social issues, but I do draw the line at abortion. And what is so funny about that is it was TwoPeas that got me to change my view. There was a very informative thread many years ago that really got me to stop and think (I would never happen on this board now). Well that's my 2 cents for today. Again thanks for starting this thread, I may have to log on more.

I may not have much to say here, as I don't consider myself conservative, but I think that this thread is a really nice idea for everyone on the board who does view themselves as being or leaning conservative, and I certainly agree with the words I quoted above.

I find that people tend to be so extreme these days in many aspects of life, not just politics, and I don't think it's a healthy way for any of us to live or to interact with one another.

This is exactly what I have issue with.  that the FBI and Justice Department would "work" with one party or the other (instead of being unbiased) to keep a candidate out of the white house.  This is not what democracy is to me.

It goes up and it comes back down all the time. It just went up way too fast to sustain! It will recover.

we have money in it, but since we don't take it out and put it somewhere else all the time, it just stays put. I have friends that are always "reinvesting" and changing their portfolio, and making and losing money all the time. I just don't look at it!! I'm not going to worry about it!!

I ventured into a political thread this morning (about Melania's pantsuit) and cannot get over how nasty some grown women treat other people. I'm really hoping that it's keyboard courage and that they aren't like that in real life. There are some Peas in that thread that have been referred to as "sweet and kind" and I just don't see it at all.

You aren't the only one. Unless sweet and kind is code for something else.

But as I said above, it's becoming my philosophy more and more that I simply toss out pretty much anything that people who I don't respect. Not just politics either. Oh, you like apples? Well you've pretty much proven to me that I think your opinions and judgment are shitty, so I'm going to assume that it applies in all areas of your life. (and to be clear, I am NOT talking about people I simply do not agree with. I'm all for difference of opinions and values. It's when I think you are a shitty person to go along with it.)

I used to say that I hated seeing political signs in my neighbors' yards, but it has become clear to me that I can use that as a way to easily rule out a candidate. It has exactly the opposite effect that I think that they hope it does.

So go ahead and tell people to "play in their own sandbox" but stop pretending that your sandbox is open to all when you start flinging crap at anyone who dares to enter it that doesn't agree with you.

I have this love-hate relationship with "ignore," lol. Part of me wants to use it because it's tiring to see the bashing. On the other hand, I want to know who people really are, kwim?

<————- missed the sandbox comment

You're both spot on, that's exactly it, congratulations.

P.S. I'm neither Dem or Repub so I don't even have a sandbox 

Wow. Seeing some of the hate being said today really makes me sad. I want to respect some of those ladies so much - and learn from where they are coming from, their viewpoint - but its hard to sift through the nasty.