My boss is a liberal.  He would probably get upset that I called him a liberal because of his views on certain issues, such as abortion (which he detests).  But when you look at who he voted for (Obama), the party he belongs to (Democrat), and certain Dem led movements he supports (such as nationalized health care) you pretty much have to assume he is, in fact a liberal.  Certain people would probably say I am liberal if they only looked at certain key issues, such as legalization of marijuana and abortion (complicated, so don't ask unless you want to hear me go on and on and on for about thirty minutes), but I consider myself to be conservative, which is why I am a member here at Townhall.com.

So, my boss and I were riding in the company truck a few days ago on our way to deliver a few things and take care of business and we start discussing politics, which we often do.  He had met a man a few days before who's wife had been in the hospital.  The man said "I don't care if they call it Socialism, Communism, nationalized or whatever as long AS IT IS FREE."  His wife's hospital bills had totaled over $87,000.  She was in for some sort of heart complication, so I'm sure she was on life support for most of her ~2 week stay.  She was ~65 years old.  I thought for a minute or two and told my boss that the bill seemed reasonable, especailly if she didn't have any insurance.  He was shocked to say the least.

So he starts going on ad nauseam about GREED.  The greed of pharmecutical comapnies, the greed of doctors, the greed of big oil, greed, greed, greed, greed.  I finally lost it.  I just couldn't take it any more.

"Do they teach you about all this GREED stuff at liberal summer camp," I asked with out a hint of a smile or grin.
":No," my boss replied. "Why?"
"I was just wondering, because you sure seem to know exactly who is greedy and why that is a bad thing so I figured it must have been a lecture series at UNCW in the Political Science department." (Mike S Adams if you see this my boss did in fact graduate fron the Univeristy of North Carolina with a PolySci degree, I'm not making that up although I am parphrasing a bit.)

I then went on to explain to my boss, which is funny because of our age difference, the difference between GREED and self-interest.  Greed is when a person tries to attain wealth or property for the sole purpose of attaining said wealth or property.  Self-interest is when a person tries to attain wealth or property to better serve their own interests or that of their family.  BIG difference, eh?

Then my boss says something that made me really fly off the handle.  He said "There are some people who just could not survive were it not for the government."  Seriosuly, that is how convoluted liberals think in America.  They seriously beleive that with out the goverment and its interventon into all aspects of day to day life that certain people would not be able to live any kind of life at all.  "If your aren't born into money or you don't hit the lottery then you cant ever be truly wealthy."  Another statement straight from a liberals mouth...  My reply?

"I can't believe you would even say something like that.  You belittle everyone when you say that.  This is America.  This is the lanf of opportunity.  This is the only country in the worls where someone with the will to educate and better themselves and the will to work hard can become wealthy.  There are plenty of self-motivcated people in this country who went to college, worked two jobs to pay for it while attending classes, worked for five or ten years in a dead end job then took the risk of quitting to start their own business and they made it just fine without any government help.That's what America is all about, having the freedom to work hard and make your life better, to give your children opportunities that you never had growing up and to strive for self-improvment."

That is almost word for word what I yelled at him in the company truck...

Looking back I realize that that is the dividing line for liberals and conservatives.  Liberals think that the only way America can survive is to turn over control of everything to the government.  Conservatives KNOW that government doens't have all the answers, never has and never will.