I am a fiscal conservative. I dont spend money I dont have to buy things I dont need to impress people I dont even like. BUT, when it comes to the human condition, I am a liberal. People are worth more than any one's bottom line. If you conservatives had your way, we would still be back in the caves trying to invent fire. Or, at least back in the coal mines and steel factories being worked to death for 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, with one day off per year for $500.00. Let's have a show of hands here. How many of us belong to the middle class? Who created the middle class? the Labor Unions, that's who. Labor Unions, the folks who brought you the 8 hour day, overtime, weekends off, workmans comp. safer working conditions. The force behind labor unions? LIBERALS! the folks who brought you social security, medicare, medicaid. Conservatives look back fondly to the days when the robber barons could work a man to death for pennies a day, and the only benefit the company afforded the dead or injured was to carry his body home and dump it on his doorstep! If they protested men like Andrew Carnaige hired goons like the Pinkertons to bust their heads. The bosses even owned the police, but, right was might, and men like John L. Lewis showed them where the bear shit in the buckwheat!