Posted on 02/11/2012 10:49:12 PM PST by true believer forever
Here’s another paper, worth reading:
“Lets consider that America needs major surgery, and Im not even certain that that will save it. But Im pretty certain there will be calamity and/or great dysfunction without it. Now if you or a loved one were in such a dire condition, are you going to look for an impeccable personal life (there arent any by the way) or are you going to look for a skilled and experienced surgeon? NO other candidate has Gingrichs experience and skill with change in government, and none have his awareness of American history and what is required to restore it. Only Gingrich has proposed the necessary changes in our tax and entitlement systems.
And only he looks over contemporary legal conventions and proposes that judicial authority is out of historical balance. We conservatives have long complained of presumptuous judicial activism. We shouldnt continue to hang our hopes on filling the judiciary with more modest judges. The executive and legislative branches must hold the judiciary to constitutional account. It is not an infallible oligarchy. We know that. Our representatives should act on it. Gingrich has the support of Ronald Reagans conservative talk-show host son Michael, Reagans economic advisor Arthur Laffer, the brilliant conservative economist and social theorist Thomas Sowell, former Senator and presidential candidate Fred Thompson, J.C. Watts and Bill McCollum who served under Gingrichs Speakership in The House, former candidates TX Governor Rick Perry and Businessman Herman Cain, and pollster and Republican strategist Kelly Anne Conway. The condition of the patient is dire. Thats why I support Gingrich without hesitation.”
By Larry Perrault
I like and trust the good thinkers who like and trust Newt.
Gingrich has the support of Ronald Reagans conservative talk-show host son Michael, Reagans economic advisor Arthur Laffer, the brilliant conservative economist and social theorist Thomas Sowell, former Senator and presidential candidate Fred Thompson, J.C. Watts and Bill McCollum who served under Gingrichs Speakership in The House, former candidates TX Governor Rick Perry and Businessman Herman Cain, and pollster and Republican strategist Kelly Anne Conway.
...not to mention Colonel Oliver North and many others.
Onward and Upward!
GO NEWT!!!
Good question. Some become burgher flippers, one guy I know went to the Post Office, during the Clinton cuts period. He's a retired AF reserve Lt. Col., one of the few intell guys in my unit that were intell on active duty as well as in the reserves. He's been stationed in Thailand during the Southeast Asia War Games.
But in my case, my wife has tenure, but she doesn't make as much as I did. She wanted to retire a little early to get us established in San Antonio, where we'd hoped to retire, and where I expected to be transferred back to after we lost our Army contract. Now she's looking at working until she's at least 67, maybe 68. I'll probably have to start drawing on my retirement, since I'm old enough to do that. But it will mean starting Social Security early, which means I'll get less. Neither of my corporate retirement funds are worth much either, in the first case because it's based on the High 3 years, which were when I making less than 2/3 what I was making at the job I just got laid off from, plus I only worked there 21+ years. the second was a defined contribution plan, but I only worked there just under 12 years. 5 more would have helped a lot. What would have helped even more was not having to maintain two households after the Clinton-sizing.
I might end with a total as much or almost as much as I'm now getting in unemployment
I'm appalled at how little SS will be, after having paid in since 1968, and full time since 1973, except for 18 months when I was grad school, learning the things I needed to know to design those force protection/enemy whacking things. :) I knew it was scam/Ponzi scheme, but I didn't' realize how bad it really was.
Be lucky to break even when we sell the second house, which was needed because of having to live apart after that first layoff. But at least that means I'll get the down payment back, and maybe a little extra to put into our other house, which is bigger but much older and somewhat run down, since the "fixer" hasn't lived there for 13+ years.
BWAHAHA! That political cartoon is CLASSIC!
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