Not enough taxes or too much spending?

The current stalemate over the budget issue demonstrates the fundamental difference between liberals and conservatives.    Liberals want an all-powerful government who takes care of everyone... income redistribution, equal outcomes instead of equal opportunity, less military and more "social justice."  It is a philosophy that once entrenched is almost impossible to dislodge.   Never mind the historical failure of liberalism every time and everywhere it is tried.  Is the grand experiment of representative government doomed to fail?   We have perhaps one and only one small window of opportunity to reverse the insidious trends we now see in the United States.   For lovers of freedom and liberty the national elections of 2012 will determine the direction our nation will take FOREVER.   We stand at the intersection of the Yellow Brick Road.