Reply #5: You have to understand that, when the right wing talk about the

[Joe Chi Minh]

country's economy and the public exchequer, they are talking about themselves and their personal fortunes. It's that simple.

To their way of thinking they are fiscal conservatives, indeed, they are more than conservative, they are highly progressive - they even put Clinton's extraordinary economic record on the economy in the shade! The perfect political party. Everyone - at least everyone who's anybody - is looked after, indeed greatly enriched.

It is exactly the same in the UK.

Perhaps with these neocons, the above is all the more true of the oil and armaments people, and somewhat less true of the remainder of the wealthy.