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Republicans, The New Democrats
http://www.jerrypournelle.com ^ | 3/17/2006 | Jerry Pournelle, PhD

Posted on 03/18/2006 11:05:54 AM PST by The Shootist

I see the Congress has busted the budget and is working overtime to create new entitlements, there are stories of amnesty for 13 million illegal immigrants, and all is normal in Washington.

On entitlements: what happened to the notion of responsibility? And John Adams on each man the best judge of his own interests? I recall the furor when Lynden Johnson broke the $100 billion dollar barrier on the budget. A HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS. And now we are up to 2.7 Trillion dollars and rising. Billions for subsidies. Buy those votes! And be sure to transfer more wealth from the young to the elderly because the elderly vote and are organized. And finance it all with debt because it puts the actual payment on the next generation.

A man should work and support his children it's the right and proper thing to do, a man should work and support his children, but with a little bit of luck, with a little bit of luck, they'll go out and work and start supporting you...

The new motto of the New Republic. Since it's impossible to stop, we may as well get in on it. Borrow more money, spend more money.

And tax reform is probably already impossible: when you get to fewer people paying taxes than those who vote themselves largess from the public treasury, reform is impossible in a democracy.

It no longer matters which party wins the elections. They'll both spend everything they can get their hands on.

God save the Constitution. And up the empire.


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Pournelle is right of most of us and certainly right of those who have high-jacked the Conservative movement, the Neo-cons.
1 posted on 03/18/2006 11:05:56 AM PST by The Shootist
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To: The Shootist

Great screen name. Excellent movie.


2 posted on 03/18/2006 11:08:37 AM PST by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: The Shootist
This excessive spending only exemplifies the need for a flat tax rate that varies with government spending. When next the politicians vote for higher spending, the people will cry to them, "why did you increase my taxes?" And then thy must reply truthfully, "to construct an indoor rain forest in a small Iowa town, without which the terrorists will have won for reasons that you mere citizens cannot comprehend!"
4 posted on 03/18/2006 11:12:15 AM PST by dufekin (US Senate: the only place where the majority [44 D] comprises fewer than the minority [55 R])
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To: The Shootist
"Pournelle is right of most of us and certainly right of those who have high-jacked the Conservative movement, the Neo-cons."

The guys is right, but don't fall for this "neo-cons" bogey man. All the republicans are in on it, not just the "neo-cons". To many, Neo-con is just a code word for jooooos. It would be a shame for the main stream crooks to get away with using the old canard of scheming joooos to avoid responsibility for their actions.

5 posted on 03/18/2006 11:12:18 AM PST by trek
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To: The Shootist



Bankruptsy, the fast lane to the NEW WORLD ORDER, doncha know?


6 posted on 03/18/2006 11:12:44 AM PST by Paperdoll (On the cutting edge)
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To: The Shootist
"It no longer matters which party wins the elections."

Sad but increasingly true.

7 posted on 03/18/2006 11:13:36 AM PST by ImpBill ("America ... Where are you now?")
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To: The Shootist

And he just figured this out??? He's blazing no new trail here, folks. The current state of the republican party is an abomination. George Bush has become a disgrace. What is he conservative about? Abortion, Military, Gay marriage, and assisted suicide. That's it. Fiscally you can add tax cuts but that goes hand in hand with government spending cuts, which he's a raving liberal on.


8 posted on 03/18/2006 11:17:20 AM PST by MAD-AS-HELL (Put a mirror to the face of the republican party and all you'll see is a Donkey.)
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To: ImpBill

If it doesn't matter which party wins, then it doesn't matter if you vote. So much for the illusion of "of, by and for the people".

This country is screwed.


9 posted on 03/18/2006 11:17:23 AM PST by MichiganConservative (Government IS the problem.)
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To: The Shootist

Yep, fiscal responsibility is no more. But, at least the next few generations can pay for it. LOL.


10 posted on 03/18/2006 11:18:31 AM PST by Fishing-guy
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To: trek
To many, Neo-con is just a code word for jooooos.

For the most part, the only people I see saying that are the neocon suck-ups themselves.
Give it a rest... you're getting worse than Al Sharpton.

11 posted on 03/18/2006 11:18:39 AM PST by Willie Green (Throw the bums out!!! ............ALL OF THEM.)
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To: trek
To many, Neo-con is just a code word for jooooos.

Neo-con is one who left the Democrat party because of their "softness" on the Comintern (International Communism). Is William F Buckley jewish? After-all he is the original "neo-con, and no, I do not blame him for the ills of out of control spending, vote buying and corruption that is winding its way through the halls of Congress.

12 posted on 03/18/2006 11:19:34 AM PST by The Shootist
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And he just figured this out???

Ah no, but you'll have to read Pournelle to know what he figured and when.

13 posted on 03/18/2006 11:20:54 AM PST by The Shootist
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To: The Shootist

You're obviously a fan of Pat Puke Cannon.


14 posted on 03/18/2006 11:22:35 AM PST by Holden Magroin
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To: The Shootist

Who we can blame for this?


15 posted on 03/18/2006 11:24:16 AM PST by manwiththehands (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: The Shootist

will do. Is it just me or has this site now become a place for Bush Aplogists?


16 posted on 03/18/2006 11:26:33 AM PST by MAD-AS-HELL (Put a mirror to the face of the republican party and all you'll see is a Donkey.)
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You're obviously a fan of Pat Puke Cannon.

Wrong side of the political house. I enjoyed watching Pat back in the late 80's and 90's, especially on McLaughlin (opposite Jack Germond, Eleanor Clift and "MOR TON". But no, I am not a supporter of much, if anything, Pat stands for.

I'm a small EL libertarian and as such would like to see power devolve to the States and to the People, not concentrated vis. a. vis "No Child Left Behind" (which is a stupid and arrogant law written by stupid and arrogant politicians).

17 posted on 03/18/2006 11:33:04 AM PST by The Shootist
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To: MAD-AS-HELL
Is it just me or has this site now become a place for Bush Aplogists?

Small minds and true-believers have a way of holding on to that which they once belived in as if it were a life-line. It gives them balance during troubling times.

18 posted on 03/18/2006 11:37:18 AM PST by The Shootist
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To: MichiganConservative

There was a time that I would argue for ever about "your vote DOES count". I wish I still felt the same, but unfortunately I don't and the Republic is indeed in a sad state of affairs.


19 posted on 03/18/2006 11:38:25 AM PST by ImpBill ("America ... Where are you now?")
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To: The Shootist

The profligacy of Republicans, who I loyally and regularly vote for, is disheartening, dismaying. I don't know what to say anymore.


20 posted on 03/18/2006 11:39:42 AM PST by Enterprise (The MSM - Propaganda wing and news censorship division of the Democrat Party.)
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