You don't know how many people serve in management, accounting, translating, researching, auditing and other business functions. Government workers aren't just postmen and the lady at the DMV. You want dummies who graduated from Superfun Online College performing vital functions that we don't see everyday, pay below industry standard. You want talented, experienced individuals with elite skills, there's only one way to get them. That's business 101.

"5) It's unlikely to ever happen, but we'd be much better off in this country if the voting age were 25 and only people who paid income tax could vote." Ha! Do you know how many conservative red staters would have their votes taken away by this policy? There are so many retired, working poor, unemployed and small business owning individuals with strong conservative values who who would be taken off of the rolls. You wold take away the vote of every clergyman in the country. There are many more rural poor than urban poor who would lose their right. Many people with moderate incomes don't pay taxes because everything they pay from their checks throughout the year is refunded because of the child tax credit and charitable donations.

"7) On average, government workers should make less than people who do the same jobs in private industry." Yes, because I learned in macroeconomics that paying people less attracts more qualified people. Oh wait, I didn't learn that, because it's an idiotic premise. If you want the government to be less efficient, the best way to do that is attract the least qualified people with subpar salaries.

This list and the comments that follow highlight a big flaw in right wing thinking: if I can't relate it to or it doesn't affect me, I'm against it. So many comments here read like, "I agree with al of these except number 13 because when I..." or "this list is great, but number two is wrong because in my situation..." it's the same reason the Reagans support stem cell research, Cheney supports gay rights and Rubio supported the Florida Dream Act: it relates to them personally. Liberals don't have to be gay, minority, immigrant, poor or disenfranchised to support the empowerment of these individuals. This list is very selfish and narrow minded, it highlights the worst of the extreme right's ideals.

Yeesh, at least this guy admits what other Republicans won't say. Favoring immigration from Western cultures? I won't call you a racist, but I will point out that you have an unrealistic fear of non whites. You have an infantile view of the world that you should be ashamed to admit in public. The fact that you instead project it proudly shows your lack of judgment and intelligence. The world doesn't look like your bubble.

NYPD has a policy called stop and frisk where cops can stop and search anyone without cause and this is the freedom limitations people complain about?

I don't think its a great policy, but I wouldn't get up in arms over it either. If this is your example of our eroding freedoms, we're doing just fine.

"Does Mayor Bloomberg Know What a Drink Refill Is?" Do people complaining about this law know what a refill is? Get over it, limiting drink sizes doesn't mean it's 1984.

Replace "Clinton" with "Gingrich" and you have described most of your party. It goes both ways.

Conservatives have shown with this issue that homophobia trumps the Constitution. DOMA directly contradicts the full faith and credit clause. There is zero way to argue against this. Zero. The only response is to bring up religion and talks of slippery slopes. Those things don't matter. It. Violates. The. Constitution. Full Faith and Credit, try basing your response in arguing that DOMA doesn't contradict this. You can't do it. I get married in New York, I'm married in Texas. Period. It's the way it is.