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Published: Friday, Nov. 06, 2009 / Updated: Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 05:43 PM

The difference between conservatives and liberals

Who in the year 2009 considers oneself a “Conservative” and who considers oneself a “Liberal?” Two different words, two different meanings.

In the non-political world, the meaning for the word liberal is in a way humane. In the political world it becomes the gateway to a totalitarian government.

The word conservative has the same function when used in the non-political world or utilized in the political arena. To conserve, whether it be food, supplies of some sort, or money, is to safeguard. The definition of safeguard is to prevent undesirable consequences from happening. The definition of a liberal in the humane sense is to be kind and charitable.

Now, flip the liberal word into the realm of politics. The outcome becomes a dangerous walk into the darkness of obscurity.

Nothing is perfect that man has created and that goes for the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. But it is all we have and we should try to preserve its wording. In fact, the Constitution is a self-destructing document when circumvented or used against itself. A piece of paper with words of freedom printed on its face are now unable to stand up and defend itself against the onslaught of thousands of legal people who have for the past two hundred years tried to change the original intent of those words. The reason it cannot defend itself is because there are no checks and balances preserving the rights of the people.

The original intent was to have one government department of government keep check on the other department, creating a balance. The President and Congress are now controlled by liberals of the political kind. We are in uncharted waters and it is anyone's guess where we are headed.

Do these liberals who are now in power practice what they preach? It's easy to figure out. In order to be a true free-spending Liberal, you must be free-spending with your own money. I.e., does a liberal walk into a store and buy everything not asking what the price is? Does a true liberal go into the car dealer and purchase a 16-cylinder locomotor that gets two gallons per mile? Yes, he does as he doesn't care as he is a true liberal. He turns on the air-conditioning and opens the windows.

I don't think so; when it is his money, he is tighter than bark on a tree. The fraud behind his actions is to spend other people's money recklessly. Hypocrisy is a good word to start with.

Not much to explain what conservative is, it is self-explanatory. A liberal is more conservative with his own checkbook, more so than a conservative is. The sitting president flies in Air Force One more than any other president has in the past and that is all in less than a year's time. A 747 burns about 4,000 gallons of jet fuel per hour at a cost of $5 a gallon and more, on the takeoff power setting. Most of the time, two planes travel to the same place with the president. Now throw in helicopters, staff, security, etc. It costs the taxpayers a huge amount for these trips.

The carbon footprint left in the contrails is written across the sky from the president's many free junkets. If the president had to pay for these trips out of his pocket, he would immediately utilize satellite communication, e-mails and the telephone, or he would fly military aircraft. The same goes for all the politicians who abuse their expense accounts granted to them by the taxpayers.

One thing to keep in mind when you are casting your vote in local and national elections is, would you want that liberal person running for office to take charge of your personal checkbook? I call it Leon's Law of selecting a candidate and I have voted that way for years. If the light pole in front of my house ran for public office and is conservative with the tax dollar, the light pole would get my vote.

Frank Whittlesey

Chadwell Court

Indian Land