Posted on 05/13/2007 5:06:47 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, May 13th, 2007
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.; actress Brooke Shields.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh; Sens. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C; former Sen. Max Cleland, D-Ga.
Mother's Day in the Chandler home is the day I have to cook breakfast.
LOL
Yes. He is right on this issue. However, the Dems and huge special interest groups like AARP have effectively blocked any real reform by demagoging the issue and frightening people. SS has fatal structural flaws. The Dems want to keep FDR's "great" achievement going in its current form. It keeps the people dependent upon government.
Starting next year, the SS "surplus" starts declining and by 2017 it will be paying out more than it is taking in. Therefore, the politicians must do something. The last time this happened, in 1983, the politicians from both parties and President Reagan tweaked the system by raising the retirement age, decreasing benefits, and increasing taxes. It was supposed to make SS solvent for the next 70 years, yet just 34 years later, 2017, we will be faced with a much larger problem.
I fear the same thing will be done after the 2008 elections, i.e., kick the can down the road a little further without a permanent solution. The real solution is to phase in privatization of the system to eliminate the USG's unfunded $12.8 trillion unfunded liability. I doubt that is going to happen. Congress will raise taxes, decrease benefits, change the COLA formula, and means test some benefits just to keep the system going. And 20 years later the problem will be even bigger.
And Medicare is in even worse shape. It will need to be fixed with in the next five or six years. Together, Medicare/Medicaid/SS represent a total unfunded liability of over $65 trillion. The prescription drug program under Medicare, signed by Bush and passed by a Rep Congress, was a major mistake and added trillions to our liability. The US is headed for a major train wreck and very few politicians want to tell the American public how bad things really are.
Wow, that must be a lonely place spiritually. It’s reached the point where certain “churches” act as political tools only with no inner spiritual mission other than some exterior ones that have no moral authority tossed onto the playing field.
Because you know, all things being morally equivalent, we must not cast judgement or lift a finger in opposition.
This is what the last election was about, not the Iraq war. It was about teaching the RINOs a lesson. Not the smartest strategy in the world, but it's what happened.
The Dhimmicrat position on Iraq and their loud voices on the subject were kept well out of site. It really ticks me off when they stand up and say that they got a mandate to surrender in Iraq last November.
No, it is a warm, spiritual place, populated by people who love God but who (or at least many of whom) are fuzzy thinking, misguided liberals, who mean well, but who constantly have to be informed and corrected.
I do my best.
NATO is becoming more of a political alliance than a military alliance. It is the US and a bunch of midgets. Canada, a nation of 33 million, spends 1.1% of its GDP on defense and has about 65,000 personnel in its armed forces.
<...especially if they post something controversial.>
Why is not supporting Rudy “controversial” any more than not supporting anyone else? Are we required to support him?
Maybe I picked the wrong place.
Well I wish you the best of luck. Not long ago the most dangerous folks in America were not the active enemies but those who sided with the good feeling propaganda exported by the Soviet moles and their fellow travelers.
It does seem odd when a religious group finds itself taking on modernity and becoming the voice for its defense rather than the values it historically stood for over time.
The dupes of Communism have perhaps become dupes for the secularization of religion which seeks their destruction.
Then again when you have “religous” organizations catering to dictatorships, communist and otherwise under the banner of moral equivalency and understanding, the future is pretty bleak for that group.
How long has the Council of Churches been a laughingstock for their duped behavior with Castro, Hugo, Ortega in Nicaragua, etc.?
Even as I recall hearing a Bishop discuss the oppression of the communists in Nicaragua, these “spiritual” groups hold them up and give them support.
As I was in college at that time, I remember being with a pretty liberal friend and at the end of the discussion got up and said to him, “I’m not surprised” after hearing all the government lead oppression. He was so taken aback, he was left speechless.
He had wanted to believe to that point the message from the dupes of communism like the Council of Churches that the communist in Nicaragua posed no threat to their people or others. Even though the speech had been translated throughout from Spanish, the impact left him stunned.
What will it take for your fellow church folk to wake up?
I think it would be very popular, but media, like newspapers, seems to be blind to their continuing demise and determined to plod on ... on the road to irrelevancy.
I don't know. There will come a time, sooner rather than later I think, when CBS will pull the plug on the perky one. At that point they'll need to go in a different direction to differentiate themselves from ABC and NBC. Turning to a more conservative voice might just be the ticket. Like Murdoch they're in business and they will betray any ideology they may hold if it means a better bottom line.
The other possibility, however, is that they just cut their losses and drop the evening news show altogether or turn it over to someone else. They have proposed a partnership with CNN to do just exactly that in the past but it didn't quite work out. They do have deals for talent, such as Anderson Cooper doing bits for CBS 60 Minutes.
Vast understatement here.
Unbelievable, isn't it!
I saw Michael Scheurer on Fox News a little while ago...and was asked about this lack of NATO forces..AFTER being interviewed about the death of one of the Taliban leaders...
He said that for Prs. Bush to even think that a democratic Afghanistan will EVER happen, is “nonsense, and they should know from the history of when Russia tried to take out the Taliban, that with a smaller NATO fighing force, it is stupid, to think otherwise”....
So....I guess even that ex-CIA guy that the networks LOVE to put on for his knowledge....thinks that Afghanistan is a waste of time, like Iraq....
BTW...kabar, I was the “judge” last week, and I had to debate quite a while before giving you 1st Place...your posts were well thought out..and you didn’t back down from any and all other posters that had different opinions.
THAT was impressive...and I thought you should be recognized for that...
However, if/when I judge a thread again, I can’t/won’t do that for you or anyone else that chooses to get personal, and make snarky attacks...
I thought you mostly did NOT do that..and so that is why I didn’t let it affect my judgement last week....however, I sense that there is a “trigger temper”....and I know you can make great arguements for your position with out the snarky remarks..
AND, so can everyone else on this thread....IMHO.
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY, SLEUTHIE :)
the local “newspaper institution” in the mid-South, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, has resorted to distributing their paper for free to every home in the county. I guess their circulation numbers were getting a little anemic.
We have one little dog and many cats. The paper comes in handy. I also read the ad inserts about one out of every three weeks.
Of course, I have reported them to the Goracle for using plastic bags to hold their papers when they drop them off in every driveway. Maybe having him living here in Tennessee will prove useful, or at least amusing.
extremely well put and I agree with how you have framed this 100%
Thank you.
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