Posted on 11/25/2005 12:48:39 PM PST by Bob Haran
Yup. In the years since NAFTA passed the US has only created 20,000,000 new jobs. Household net worth is only $50 trillion dollars. Real disaster!! LOL!!
"Jim Kolbe is the, only, openly, homosexual Republican in Congress."
I would really like to see your reference for your statements.. Companies moved to mexico and took the jobs with them. we lost jobs, but gained an illegal immigration problem. I do not consider minimum wage jobs, jobs. 20,000,000 jobs my arse.... Seen any stats on trade deficits compared to when Nafta kicked in?? Go back over and sit down...
There was some speculation at the time Trent Lott capitulated on the terms for clinton's impeachment trial--agreeing that no witnesses or evidence would be permitted and thus guaranteeing that clinton would walk. Several unconfirmed stories said that Lott had an episode in his closet, which the clintons threatened to expose.
One thing that really irritates me is the "Log Jammin Republicans".
For a group to get their name from a slanderous theory that damages the good name of the party founder is unconscionable.
I can't believe the Republican party even lets these people in the "big tent" when all they ever do is undermine our political strength.
"The operative word there is "openly.' The closet at the Republican cloakroom in the Capitol must be at full capacity."
I, in the past, read here on FR serveral times that Lott and Graham are light in the loafers.
Any comments out there?
I just read your comment after I posted. We seem to be on the same track.
They both act like people being blackmailed by the Democrats, for what that's worth.
Hillary has everyone's file. The 900 FBI files that have been acknowledged are only the tip of the iceberg. I can't believe that she walked out of the White House with anything less than the entire FBI database.
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I stand corrected. Since November 1993 we've added 21.5 million jobs.
Companies moved to mexico and took the jobs with them. we lost jobs, but gained an illegal immigration problem.
You're correct, we had no illegal immigration before NAFTA. LOL!!
I do not consider minimum wage jobs, jobs.
You go girl.
20,000,000 jobs my arse...
Please, let's not talk about your arse on a thread about Jim Kolbe.
I'm sorry, MM, did you mean to address your post to me? You may have meant somebody else. I ask because I am not an authority on NAFTA or CAFTA.
My gut feeling is I don't like it. Intellectually I am not prepared to defend my "gut feeling."
"They both act like people being blackmailed by the Democrats, for what that's worth."
You are exactly right!!! You hit the nail on the head.
I don't see the relevance...Lott and Graham are both Senators, not House Members, (though both used to be). House Member Kolbe is a self-proclaimed homosexual. The rest is speculation, is it not?
Lott could have something in his past, but he also has something the others mentioned do not have. He has a wife(a very attractive one) and a family. Now he could be "whatever", anyway, as we know, but how is anyone going to know that who only knows him as a public person? Hmmmmmm?
I must say his wife is most naive or passive and/or understanding, if she has been married to him all this time and bore and raised his children, and either not known if he were homosexual or put up with it if she knew.
Graham is a bachelor and somewhere near age 40. Raises more questions than Lott, in my view. But read on...
That said, I know of a man who has been looking for the right woman and the right situation until he is now 49 years old. He met a woman, once divorced with kids, in her thirties, and the guy is head over heels crazy for the gal. People who knew him all those years, including his own sister whom I am close friends with, say nothing has ever clicked for him before to this extent and he is anxious to marry his new love.
So, you can't always be certain about some things...
I hadn't heard about Lott, but I can think of a few others in the House and Senate about whom it is strongly rumored that they are homosexual. Of course, there are more closeted Democrat Congressmen than closeted Republican Congressmen, but if a closeted Democrat votes in favor of special rights for gays he or she will be voting for the Democrat platform, while closeted Republicans who vote for special rights for gays are voting against the GOP platform.
For the record, I don't care if a Republican Congressman is a closeted homosexual so long as he or she votes the right way and so long as he or she won't change his or her vote for fear of being outed.
And regarding Jim Kolbe, he could be straight as an arrow and be married with a dozen kids, but if he voted the way he voted (pro-partial-birth abortion, pro-special rights for gays, pro-open borders) I would have opposed him just as strongly.
Now post all the jobs that left and went to mexico, canada, and china...then we'll talk. Your survey is the talking point of the Nafta and Gatt crowd...show me some real stats, along with some showing the deficit increases since the early 90's, and I'll go sit down....
hello newbie!
Sorry, all I claimed was that we have 20,000,000 new jobs. I guess 80,000,000 old jobs could have gone to Mexico while 100,000,000 were created. Doesn't change the fact that we have 21,500,000 more jobs than we did before NAFTA.
Your survey is the talking point of the Nafta and Gatt crowd...
Not my survey, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
...show me some real stats, along with some showing the deficit increases since the early 90's, and I'll go sit down....
Feel free to post whatever you'd like. Be sure to back it up like I did. Thanks.
the fact is that a good portion of this country is dead. No construction goin on at all... Why do you suppose that is? Obviously you 20,000,000 new jobs are not in the fields of 10,000,000 american construction workers...
Well, I have a few homosexual friends, and as long as they keep it a private matter it's no business of mine.
The problem with a Republican politician, unfortunately, is that even if he keeps it private, it renders him vulnerable to blackmail.
Gary Aldrich points out in "Unlimited Access" that bill clinton broke all the security rules when he filled the White House with drug addicts, homosexuals, gangsters, and other eminently blackmailable people. It was a tremendous security risk to have that sort of people in key, sensitive positions. It used to be that homosexuality was grounds to refuse someone access to classified documents, because it was too much of a security risk.
In that sense, it's better to have open homosexuals in the Senate, because they can no longer be blackmailed. That's not a problem for the Democrats, but it remains a problem for most Republicans.
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