Posted on 01/12/2015 1:13:43 PM PST by reaganaut1
Would be a good START.
The given choice was Romney or Obama.
Between the two, I wouldn’t be as concerned about the future of the country as I am now if Romney was elected.
I was ready to bet you $1,000 that Dirksen said ‘a million here, a million there.’
Now it hardly seems worth it.
The trend lately in the FEDGOV is to do whatever you want, and then make the other branches take some action to stop you; if they dare. And then they don't dare. And so on and so forth. The Constitution is only as good as it is obeyed. It never really had a mechanism of enforcement.
good history of that frequently referred to quote.
don’t forget grants and funds for non-government orgs and stuff
like PBS, NPR and Planned Parenthood.
don’t replace it, just spend less
fix potholes instead of buying buses and trains
After RomneyCare, he didn’t deserve those votes
“One id like to see is to stop all interest payments to the Federal reserve. “
You’re too late. That’s always been the case since the Fed was organized. Interest payments that the Fed receives on its Treasury paper gets returned directly to the Treasury. A very small portion goes for payroll and routine operational expense but that’s it.
The Fed isn’t a private bank. It’s a hybrid public/private organization created by an act of Congress. It controls its holdings of Treasury paper but it doesn’t own them. Its Treasury holdings are a tool that it uses for adjusting the money supply in the banking system.
When the Fed buys Treasuries from banks what it is really doing is converting illiquid Treasury paper into loanable dollars. It monetizes Treasury debt. That’s the “creating dollars out of thin air” that you speak of. It’s a change of state as opposed to a creation out of nothing. When the Fed sells its Treasury paper to banks it soaks up dollars out of the banking system, reducing the money supply.
Federal money is a drug and the States need a 12 step program!
Two names.
- Herbert Hoover (started the New Deal, tho he didn’t call it that. FDR lambasted him for the rest of FDR’s life as the cause of the Great Depression - but doubled down on exactly what Hoover started. At least until Hitler scared FDR straight, ending the Depression by starting the wartime buildup - and stalling the New Deal - upon the Fall of France in May 1940).
- Jimmy Carter.
He would have been worse. Republicans would oppose Romney even less than they oppose Obutthole.
What the heck was Carter a CEO of?
Ev Dirksen was perhaps our finest Senate leader and might be the last good Senator ever elected from Illinois.
Other than Peter Fitzgerald of course. Sigh.
Like Milt, Dubya and Hoover? No thanks.
Herbert Hoover- not a CEO.
He became very wealthy as a professional mining engineer. During WWI he volunteered to run an American agency dedicated to preventing starvation in war ravaged Europe, and then served as Secretary of Commerce under Harding and Coolidge.
He became President without ever having won an elected office before.
Governor of Georgia if that counts.
Hoover was a mining engineer.
Marigolds.
Whatever good he did he undid with his role in passing Johnson’s civil rights bill.
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