Posted on 11/14/2006 1:51:18 PM PST by DCBandita
The announcement by McCain, who has put together campaign organizations in many of the states with early nominating contests, was widely expected. The intentions of Giuliani, who has been less active in early organizing, had been less clear.
Giuliani's campaign team said the committee was simply an opening move designed to keep his options open, with a final decision still to come.
"This filing affords him the opportunity to raise money and put together an organization to assist him in making his decision," Giuliani adviser Anthony Carbonetti said.
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But if the mentally handicapped or terminally ill person did NOT chose to be euthanized, should we do a cost-benefits analysis, and possibly euthanize anyway?
What do we do if it becomes a full blown civil war?
You are obviously unfamiliar with the US Constitution.
Waterford and Groton killed him. The local rags were doing crap editorials claiming that Simmons support of the war was costing the subbase two subs a year. Nonsense of course but it supprressed his vote just enough in Waterford and groton for Courtney to sneak through.
I have a growing animus for all media. The truth has become a rare commodity.
It would be nice to have a CHOICE that does not have the USSC cramming their progressive socialistic and secular views down my throat. Overtuen Roe vs Wade and let it be decided where it should be ie. in the State Legislature. Incorporate the 2nd amedment as it should be and lets see the USSC protect the 2nd like it does the 1st. Get the Feds out of education,all welfare programs and social engineering and I am with you.
And one more thing. I want the religious left out of government also. I do not want thier religious views of social Justice theology crammed down my throat. Get the picture.
You wrote: "I'm not opposed to all of the tax cut. But I'd definitely repeal the cuts for the upper 2% as well as repeal the capital gains tax cut."
I agree.
You wrote: "Service on the national debt is yet again growing to be the single biggest non-investment expenditure by government. Just as living your life on credit cards doesn't make sense, neither does excessive debt carried by the government. Given that we are spending what we are on the war, you can't reduce that debt without gaining additional revenue by repealing parts of the tax cuts."
I agree.
You wrote: "The economic divide is real. We are at a 0% savings rate as a nation. The proportion of those who live paycheck-to-paycheck has grown. The proportion of those who are underemployed has grown. The proportion without health care has grown. Bankrupticies have grown. Foreclosures are beginning to grow. And this isn't the investment class with these problems - it's the working middle class who are a trip to the doctor's away from being in serious trouble. This will have a cost, and it's better to avoid it rather than incur it."
I agree.
Hence the divide, and the reason the upper 2% remain in the upper 2%. Aside, I can cite you chapter and verse how the tax cut did NOT create those jobs and then you can go to your sources and cite me chapter and verse how they did so I won't go there. Suffice it to say that investment income, despite what you say, has nary a job created.
I have no qualms at all with your second paragraph. We are in complete agreement.
Why do Democrats always talk about raising taxes and so little about reducing spending ? You know the history of all politicians is to spend to buy votes, so starving the beast is the only answer.
Not many Democrats these days are talking about raising taxes, and especially not on the middle class. They are also actively promoting investigations in to the WFA in the contracting processes of both the Iraq War and Katrina. Does that count as cutting spending? I would think it should.
Well, it's their gamble, but we all pay for it with emergency room bills.
And higher insurance premiums for those of us who choose NOT to gamble. Personally I like the idea (I think it was Romney?) had - a collective purchasing pool for private insurance in MA that didn't tie the insured to a job but rather to the state. It's a creative way to address health insurance without socializing it.
Bankrupticies have grown primarily because people view it as the easy way out of debt. Run up the bills, then get out of their obligations. All part of the entitlement mentality fostered by Democrats.
Factually incorrect. The number one reason people file for bankruptcy is because they can't pay medical bills. Guess the gamble didn't pay off.
Foreclosures are beginning to grow. Why ? For the same reason people run a balance on their credit cards - they buy a house they cannot afford. In many communities it's cheaper all round to rent, but some people get interest only mortgages to buy that 4400 sq ft mcmansion. Their choice, they pay the price.
OR it could be because people bought what they could afford at the time and then, in an outdated attempt to balance the growth rate of the economy (outdated because so many components of cost to consumers is now determined by fixed components not manipulable by interest rate adjustment), interest rates have risen. I suppose you think it's only Democrats who are being foreclosed upon, since they are the ultimate diners at the public trough...
When all is said and done, people have to take responsibility for themselves and their families, much as the Democrats like to think they can take over family life with taxpayer dollars and social workers. The middle class spends about 40% of their paycheck on taxes to support the Democrat socialist agenda. Think what they could do with that money left in their own hands.
Or you wind up taking responsibility for them as the rate of bankrupcies parlays to negative savings rates and the foreclosures parlay to extreme homelessness. I'm not a fan of entitlements of any nature, but somehow I don't think families in the street are going to sit well with the American people. If you hate the welfare state (which I do as well), you might consider that current policies and economic indicators are leading us precisely back to that.
And what about those who are truly irresponsible ? Well, they need a reality check. If taxpayers weren't making life so easy for them to escape their obligations, maybe they'd get up off their butts, get an education, and get to work.
I wonder how "easy" all these people who work two jobs to pay the bills think they have it - but I agree, there is always a component that will take advantage. Where I think we differ, however, is that I believe that's a very SMALL component whereas you seem to think that's anyone who has trouble.
You've been very civil - but really - your argument? It really equates, for me, to "take care of yourself or go f--k yourself" without considering all the levels between prosperity and destitution.
Who knew? :) The Iraq war cut off funding for more subs eh? Must be that darn Rumsfeld again.
You'd have to ask them. Check out threads on Guiliani or McCain.
There are several options, none rather appealing. We would, of course, have to choose sides or leave. Those would be the only options.
Well said.
I'm pretty sure I'm preaching to the choir here but Bosnia was strictly a Clintonian diversionary tactic
Clearly and unquestionably, one of the most evil and conniving people to exist.
Not a tragedy if Simmons lost, he was almost a Democrat anyway.
What is your deus ex machina, chapter and verse and all?
Whose side do we chose, and what is the consequence? Sure, the Kurds need to become some sort of protectorate somehow, but as between the Sunnis and the Shias?
Everything is relative. When, like me, you have voted as conservative a choice as a ticket allows and lost every time for more than 30 years, Simmons will do.
I don't agree with any of it, and/or it is grossly overstated. The numbers are wrong, and the delta function is wrong, for starters.
You wrote: "On the abortion issue, Rudy can promise to appoint 'originalist' judges who will respect the Constitution, and that will probably be sufficient."
You're right.
That would work.
He doesn't have to PERSONALLY believe in the cause of saving babies, so long as he's willing to compromise in ways that advance the football.
Fine.
He does that, I'm with him.
I've always said that I'd give the gays their marriages in exchange for their support to save the babies.
At some point the mass of cells, to me, becomes able to live without the support of its mother. When that occurs (and this is different for every pregnancy, so I'm told) then, to me, it's life. Therefore, 90 days where it's generally not viable seems like a reasonable place to draw one of MY bright lines.
It's false to say that there are only two points - conception and birth - and generally, that's a problem I have with the Republicans in the current administration - you're with us or against us - you support the war or you're unpatriotic - polar extreme views that completely eliminate anything in the middle. If, as you say, only the two exist, then birth control such as the pill should be illegal as well. Because it doesn't prevent conception, only implantation.
I hear you on the birth control issue - I would love it if families would handle it reasonably, much the way my family handled it (I was raised in a household that taught me to respect myself and to view my body as a gift and to give it carefully, but also that it was normal and that I should protect myself, which kept me a virgin much longer than my girlfriends). But for reduction to work, birth control has to be widely available. If you leave it to families, you won't get the kind of reduction in abortion I think is possible, but I can compromise on this one provided we're all connected to the realities of some households.
While I find your last statement eloquent, I don't see where society has been damaged by safe, legal abortion. I realize that it bothers many principled people and bothers them deeply, but I think that is separate from societal "damage", which is what you suggest.
Let's just hope full blown civil war is preempted for now.
You can get back to the tough questions at a later date counselor.
Let me know how you make out with the moderate dem wunderkind. She won't talk to me. Gotta go, my wife requires my assistance. Adios!
PS: I was called for jury duty today. Never even made it to voir dere, the perp copped a plea! I was looking forward to bantering with the attorneys. After bantering with you perhaps I came out better with the perp copping. (g)
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