Posted on 08/09/2014 4:09:59 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Clinton should have been imprisoned or executed for treason for taking campaign money (bribes) from the Chinese military and then approving the sale of missile guidance technology and Cray supercomputers to China.
When Clinton entered office there were no Chinese missiles which could reach the US. When he left there were 2-300 which could reach the west coast, IIRC.
That is treason.
EPA and OSHA may have been good ideas that went bad but I still recall the Nixon wage/price freeze which definitely was NOT a good idea. Richard Nixon was not a believer in true freedom. He was a big government man.
Anyone with even a smidgen of wisdom about government programs and powers would instinctively know that establishing the EPA and OSHA was the first step to releasing hell on the American people.
My comment was about Nixon, not necessarily you.
And Golda Meir stated that Nixon saved Israel in ‘73.
I was almost 12 years old. It was summer vacation from school. That morning, Nixon resigning was all anybody could talk about. We went to a lake that day to go swimming. I remember swimming in the lake that day and wondering about what Nixon was going through. I figured it must have been a very tough day for him. Didn't know much about Gerald Ford. Nor much about Watergate though that's all I ever heard on the news that year. My mother told me it was an apartment building so I'm thinking all this fuss over an apartment building. What a weird world.
It was one of those hot, hazy days of mid-summer. School was only a month away but it seemed like a long, long time in the future. Our car had those vinyl seats so I had to put a towel down on the seat so my legs wouldn't get burned. I was wearing a wet bathing suit. Very uncomfortable to wear a wet bathing suit on a long car drive. On the way back, we stopped at a Dunkin Donuts and I got a jelly donut. I didn't drink coffee in those days (but I would later).
We get back to the house, get changed, and went over to hang out at my friend's house across the street. His mother took us shopping to some department store. I did not like shopping then and I do not like shopping now. But back in those days, you went where your friend's mother took you and you didn't complain.
The department store had a section where they sold TVs and you had this whole bank of TVs showing Nixon getting on the helicopter, flashing his "V" sign, and climbing aboard. It was a sad scene. I liked Nixon and in my fourth grade class, I was one of the only students who voted for him in the mock election. Most of my classmates voted for McGovern but they couldn't explain why. (They still can't today.)
So in the checkout line, you have my friend, and my friend's mother ahead of me. I saw in front of me all those shiny candy bars and packs of gum. For some reason that I cannot do this day explain, I reached out and grabbed a large multi-pack of Wrigley's gum and shoved it into my pocket. I was horrified. Yet now there was no turning back as another shopper got in line behind me. To take out the gum now would be to expose myself as a thief.
So I broke into a sweat and as we left the department store, I expected alarms to start ringing and the police to swarm around me and slap me in handcuffs. How would I ever explain this?
We drove back home in silence, as the radio was on talking about the president resigning. I was so sick of hearing about it. Fortunately my friend's mother changed stations and "Annie's Song" by John Denver was playing. One of my favorite songs from that summer. But for now on, whenever I hear "Annie's Song", I think of Richard Nixon and about the stolen package of Wrigley's gum.
No problem, there is no doubt they both released hell on the people but there were some environmental issues that needed to be addressed and some occupational health and safety issues likewise. Unfortunately, as always, once the government got involved the cure became vastly more of a problem than the original disease. There is no minor problem that cannot be expanded into a monstrosity by a government “solution”.
In retrospect, those environmental issues you mentioned, how big a threat do they appear to be now, when compared to the ‘solution’?
Our Founding Fathers knew the answer to that question more than 200 years ago.
Not nearly so bad as the so-called solution but we did have some major water polluters. I have stood and watched as thousands of dead fish floated by in the Great Pee Dee river. Some business owners seemed to have no conscience whatsoever. I remember as a small child being amazed by what was being done to some of our streams in South Carolina, sometimes the water would be dyed some strange color and “Sugar Creek” in North Carolina smelled like an open sewer.
Those situations were indisputably horrible.
To control them, we created the government equivalent of AIDS and Ebola.
Well, if it’s just asinine to disagree with wage and price controls and think them incompatible with freedom then I’m just asinine. Personally I think wage and price controls are just asinine.
I enjoyed reading that. Thanks.
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