Posted on 02/28/2006 11:37:47 PM PST by neverdem
Well, if they voted for it.
It would more involve keeping people out than keeping people in. The treatment of non-citizens has always been somewhat authoritarian.
But, as I said, they're not going to vote for it.
Good point. You forgot that Hoover raised taxes too to balance the budget. And there were other disastrous policies. Three strikes and you're out--for 70 years. There are still diehard Roosevelt democrats out there, even though Roosevelt did many things to prolong the pain. But Republicans got ALL the blame, and they probably deserved it.
I had fogotten that on Taxes. Thanks for the correction.
Yes, really.
"However, many of our problems are caused by being too rich for our own good, and we might benefit by cutting back a little
Stultis
"Not as a democratic Republic of free citizens little"
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Ah but you see Proxy figures he would be one of the little galtleiters so for him Fascist America sounds like a wonderful idea. Too bad for him and the other little closet Hitlers on both the Left and Right, we got votes and the will to use them.
Like Rangel and his call for a Draft? You never hear Republicans say we need a return of the Draft. But Rangel talks about it pretty consistently.
It would almost be amusing for President Bush to indicate that a review of the Draft is on the table. Dems would fall all over themselves getting to the microphone denouncing such talk as racist, and a war against poor folk.
And Rangel's outrage would be greater than anyone's.
With your extraordinary ability to explain, you should be an educator.
LOL. I thought you were mostly kidding and read sarcasm into that...so I was being flip.
A good lesson in just because I can post, doesn't mean I should.
I'm sorry.
Just turn the radio off or quit talking so much to hubby in the car, and you'll most likely hear that you're in third gear rather than fifth.
:-)
Yes......... I've done it too (59/male).
:-)
Well, I say it is not going to happen, it's not realistic, the voters don't want it.
They may say to cut back on immigration a little. That would be similar to the post-1924 period.
I was thinking along these lines just yesterday. The Demoncrats will try to use this issue to give the appearance of being for national security. It will be a dishonest stab at increasing their power and that of the unions. An outright grab to nationalize, through government control, anything and everything that looks like a "national security" issue to the moderate dummies out there who still vote (and are uninformed).
This will be loud and emotionalized. It will NOT be an honest debate over HOW to secure our freedoms. We will not hear talking heads debate "is information and spying better, or is shutting the doors and manning the walls better?"
You may be supremely humble as you say, but I have noticed that you are also supremely decent and good.
Thank you for your FReeper quality and humor.
bts
You grew up in Pittsburgh, you went to school in Pittsburgh, you served in the AMERICAN MILITARY, you own and run a business ( which according to your personal page is a "perennial nursery" ) and live in Pittsburgh with your wife.
You aren't attached to the Swiss Consulate and just because there is one, in Pittsburgh, doesn't make that part of Pa. SWITZERLAND! :-)
It is also NOT proper to divulge the info and the REAL name of someone not even a member of FR, which you learned about in private discourse. Continue doing so and perhaps I'll use some of YOUR private info, on threads, for no reason, other than to get your goat.
When asked if you had ever heard of HERBERT HOOVER, your answer was "I'M SWISS".
Inandofitself, that was a non squirter.
The other poster, taking you at your word, then went on to tell you about HERBERT HOOVER; assuming that you didn't know much about HERBERT HOOVER, BECAUSE YOU WERE SWISS; NOT OF SWISS HERITAGE!.
And since you did NOT correct his misconception, he and others here, would have continued to be deluded by you, had I not called you what you are; A LIAR!
There are sins of commission and sins of omissions. In your post, you managed to commit both kinds.
Stating that you had LIED/are a LIAR, was a statement of fact; not name calling.
Stay there for a good time.
Go to the hospital.
Such an action would cause far more problems than just "somewhat higher prices and a lower standard of living" here. If it was instituted, it would cause a depression, the likes of which would make the one we suffered through, from 1929 through WW II, pale by comparison.
Should we cut off all imports, all of our exports would be stopped.
We no longer make a large variety of things. For us to get these various commodities, we would have to not only hope the American firms would spring up to make ( those, of course, that could be made, grown, and mined here; that is ) and sell them here. That would take a great deal of time and in the case of some minerals/ores, needed for our armaments, impossible, since none of them exist here.
Your second paragraph is right out of MARX. We're "TOO RICH FOR OUR OWN GOOD." ? You're no conservative.
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