I agree with Gold. My taxes are too high. Our federal deficit and federal debt are too big. Spending is out of control, and Clinton is using it all as an excuse to call for tax increases. the pressure for tax increases is going to build, unless spendig is cut. If I wanted huge federal spending, I'd support Hillary. I don't want huge federal spending - - so who should I support? The republican president isn't delivering on Republican small-government policies, so what do we do?
Drink. Heavily.
Run for office.
Pull your head out and deal with reality for a change instead constantly looking for excuses to whine about Bush. WHAT do we do to rebuild after the worst natural disaster in US History Chamberlinbuff? Just tell 3 states to go screw themsleves because YOU don't want to actually DO anything because YOUR comfortable little nitch isn't effected? Wonder if it was YOUR state that was devestated if you would be so gung ho to impose your absurd notions of social darwinism on these people. BTW Chamberlinbuff, how many votes do you think your "DO NOTHING" plan would get in the US Congress? What do you think "Do nothingism" will do to Republican electoral chances in 2008? Try to actually THINK for a change rather then desperately grasp for the latest excuse to whine about Bush.
You need to get over the idea of "small government". The last "small government" president was Calvin Coolidge, in a vacation from history in the Roaring 20s.
Every president and Congress since then has grown the size of government, spent more money, and expanded the scope of the federal level.
We either spend the money to reconstruct the Gulf and surround it with conservative incentives, enterprise zones, and ownership, or we propagate the notion that conservatives are scrooges who care only about pinching pennies.
Americans overwhelmingly want to invest in the Gulf Coast, so it is going to happen. Best that it be done under conservative auspices.
I trust Samurai Jack won't mind, so I'm reproducing a post of his from a previous thread. It's insightful.
Precisely, There was early speculation as the democrats were hyperventilating over the 'bush hate black folk' flap. Many conservative pundits speculated that this was a historical repeat of new orleans from the late 20's the last time it was wiped out by a hurricane.
In 1929 New Orleans was wiped out by a powerful hurricane. At the time New Orleans was a poor black ghetto swamp from which there was no escape. Much similar to the contemporary situation. At the time there was a rich upperclass section of new orleans with the capacity to escape the misery, disease and mosquitos. And at the time it was during the presidency of the niggardly Herbert Hoover. The same Herbert Hoover that presided over the stock market crash.
Herbert Hoover was a 'fiscal conservative' like todays liberals of late have staked their positions. You can hear them complaining about 'This Administration' spending all the money on the war in iraq and not enough on the poor puppies drowning in the storm drains. So when Herbert Hoover encountered a recession after the 'Roaring Twenties', the fiscal conservative failed to relax interest rates to stimulate the economy. He didnt want to cut any roaring twenties spending programs, and he wanted to maintain a balanced budget.
Well, when the storm hit and destroyed New Orleans he left the people of the state to fend for themselves. Then, as now, the state government was a corrupt cleptocracy with no capacity or plan to react to emergencies. The poor people of region suffered in squalor, disease and misery laden tent camps for months. Those people didnt forget that misery when it came to the voting booths.
Franklin Delanor Roosevelt came along with his 'new deal' politics and swept the republican party out of power for decades. Nowadays, the black voting bloc have largely forgotten why they dont vote for republicans. But primarily it is because back in 1929 the GOP turned it's back on that population in favor of an austere fiscal policy.
Today, it was the Democrats who turned their backs on the poor in new orleans. And this president has seized the opportunity to come up with HIS new deal. Let us hope that president bush possesses the same courage with his ownership society and conservative ideals that that possessed FDR to stack the courts and so ruthlessly pursue his socialist goals.
So in the late 20's the GOP lost the black voting bloc. President Bush today has his opportunity to be the conservative New Deal. Perhaps he has the strength to implement it, and we have the wisdom to shut up about it.
(thats my story and im stickin to it!)
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any flames, complaints, and/or historical nitpicking will be ignored.
12 posted on 09/19/2005 3:25:45 AM CDT by Samurai_Jack (ride out and confront the evil!)
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Your stingyness is inexcusable in the present context. Pay attention please..... the states of Mississippi and Lousiana are in severe distress.
Your worldview was outmoded the moment Katrina passed. What you once thought you knew is now irrelevant.
"The republican president isn't delivering on Republican small-government policies, so what do we do?"
Take action by keeping our own financial houses in order, reduce our personal spending and consumerism, thwart the taxman at every legal opportunity, invest wisely, enlighten others, work locally not globally in the political arena, stay under the radar and hunker down.
When I grew up and became a taxpayer, I stopped kidding myself that ANY political party will ever make any real reforms in government spending and pork, or in reducing our national deficit.
I'm just being realistic and looking out for myself so I can continue to be a functioning member of society and not a drain on it. It's called living a conserver lifestyle, and it's called self-reliance and responsibilty. (I lean a little toward Libertarianism, as you can see.)
Free advice. Take it for what it's worth. :)