Posted on 12/19/2004 11:26:56 AM PST by Willie Green
"Big vision requires big money. Deal with it, tightwads."
That's right, and fiscal conservatives vision is currently limited to that which is seen by looking through the LARGE end of the binoculars......
Unfortunately for most of us, Bush is helping build a big government tower of Babel by stealing bricks from Reagan's "shining city on the hill".
Yea, the GOP members are hiding their heads in shame. /sarcasm Any REAL conservative shoulda beat Kerry in a landslide.
Shoulda, however this being the case, WHY DIDN"T THEY?
After all the political opportunity was there for them!
Willie, your singing a losers lament!
I know what it's like to have tunnel vision. I'm so glad I woke up.
And, of course, even 100 percent control if we continue to election big government presidents like Bush.
That's "100 control won't be enough"
No, what we REALLY need to do is allow 2% of the tax money that would be used for those drugs to instead be put into private accounts to be used for drugs. See, Bush's secret plan is to start an ownership society...blah blah blah.../sarcasm
The president should have used a disclaimer: "Though it may not resemble the type of vision you've come to expect from your labor union leaders, Mr. Green."
That alone was worth my vote.
Since when have you started badmouthing subsidies, Willie?
Well...of course, by the Bush standard FDR, who gave us subsidized loans through the FHA, was the pioneer of the "ownership society."
That's a bit of a tautology, do you define something as a Big Vision only if it requres big $$?
How about 'Love thy neighbor as thyself'?
Ah, yes, FDR, the original compassionate conservative...
"The parliament is, by corruption, the mere instrument of the will of the administration. The real power and property in the government is in the great aristocratical families of the nation. The nest of office being too small for all of them to cuddle into at once, the contest is eternal, which shall crowd the other out. For this purpose, they are divided into two parties, the Ins and the Outs, so equal in weight that a small matter turns the balance. To keep themselves in, when they are in, every stratagem must be practised, every artifice used which may flatter the pride, the passions or power of the nation. Justice, honor, faith, must yield to the necessity of keeping themselves in place. The question whether a measure is moral, is never asked; but whether it will nourish the avarice of their merchants, or the piratical spirit of their navy, or produce any other effect which may strengthen them in their places. As to engagements, however positive, entered into by the predecessors of the Ins, why, they were their enemies; they did every thing which was wrong; and to reverse every thing they did, must, therefore, be right. This is the true character of the English government in practice, however different its theory; and it presents the singular phenomenon of a nation, the individuals of which are as faithful to their private engagements and duties, as honorable, as worthy, as those of any nation on earth, and whose government is yet the most unprincipled at this day known."-- Thomas Jefferson to Governor John Langdon, March 5, 1810
Ahm, we aren't Great Britain Willie.....
that's a bit of a non-sequitir, isn't it?
that's a bit of a non-sequitir, isn't it?
I think it follows quite well. 'Love thy neighbor as thyself' fits the title of 'Big Vision', but doesn't need big $$.
It doesn't.
'Love thy neighbor as thyself' fits the title of 'Big Vision', but doesn't need big $$.
This doesn't follow either. But, addressing that, I confess that I forgot that the material means to keep the Golden Rule fall from the heavens like rain. My bad.
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