Nobody faces dire consequences at the polls anymore. Most all Americans that vote, vote straight party lines. I cannot fathom how any gun owner could support a Democrat who supports gun control. Heck, are their any that don't? Abortion is murder, America calls it a choice. Why don't we drug test people who are on welfare? If you are on welfare and don't take drugs, what's the big deal? Every company that I know of pratices routine, random drug tests on all their employees, why should those paid to live and not work by the Federal government be subjected to less than the people who pay the taxes that support them? Until recently with the economy like it is, there has never been a time in my adult life where someone that wants to work, couldn't get some kind of a job. I've never been without a job, but then their are people who are too good to dig ditches, roof houses, or do any of the umpteen other jobs I did before I got a degree. This country is in a mess, I sure don't see it getting any better for a long while. I just hope that one day if it ever comes down to it, that our military remembers that the oath they take is to protect the CONSTITUTION of the US, not the people in office.