Posted on 02/04/2007 10:33:24 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Lost me at II., I have no interest in promoting a theocracy.
I also note that the original CWA included support for the second amendment RKBA, which is missing from this version.
Newt must be joking. If the State Dept weren't actually Constitutionally mandated I'd be calling for its outright elimination. Giving more money and power to those clowns would be disastrous.
The President should ask the bipartisan leaders of Congress to cooperate in establishing a joint Legislative-Executive working group on winning the war...
And I'm sure Hillary, Ried, and Pelosi will get right back to you on that one.
Would February 2009 be alright?
L
I hestiate on II because I just am not comfortable with trying to legislate religion in any way, shape, or form
Funny, I thought that was the best one.
RE: Education, I agree completely.
I have what I call the "T.L.C. plan." "True Local Control."
Putting aside the advisability of giving the state control over the minds of our children for a moment, on a purely practical basis it makes no sense to take our education dollars, send them to Washington or our state capitals, run them through a huge bureacracy, and then send a fraction of them back to us with strings attached.
IMO, no education dollar should ever leave the locality in which it originates. In other words, all control over education should be in the hands of parents, taxpayers and teachers, in that order. (The massively growing numbers of administrators can take a hike - they've never educated a child yet.)
Lots of folks don't realize the huge percentage of state budgets that go to K-12 education...well over 50% in most cases.
And finally, the idea that the state should control the minds of the up and coming generations is a statist, socialist one.
One more thing: The whole system of bringing kids into a huge central facility and trying to educate them en masse is an outmoded and completely inefficient one. With the advent of the internet, more information is available to every one of us, young and old, then any previous generation ever dreamed of having access to.
Me too. Reverence for, and reliance on, the Creator, is the basis for American republican governance.
It's the premise for everything else.
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The Founding Fathers weren't theocrats. Neither is Newt. Newt wants to help America find its moral compass, get back to its basic concepts. Newt wants the USA to return to its fundamental roots, whereby government is a tool of the people and not the other way around. The growth of secular progressivism over the last 40 years, has worked to undermine this nations religious foundations. But America remains a Christian nation and recognizing God has always been at the center of our society and our politics.
And it's already established. In 1776, by the Founding Fathers - The Declaration of Independence. Those who wish to do away with it should try to do so by the same means used by the Founders. But they'd better come with their lunch and a lantern - and loaded for bear.
Amen.
I agree wholeheartedly on that.
Perhaps we should try some of that stuff that actually worked in the past. You know, like maybe conservatism.
In 1994 Newt was talking about eliminating Departments. Now he's talking about new ones.
And people wonder why the Republicans got their butt cheeks taped together last November...
Newt's a really, really bright guy. That's what's so disappointing about hearing him say stuff like this. More money for State? My God they're doing incalculable damage to the war effort now. Just imagine what they would do with even more funding.
The Republicans lost last November for the same reasons the Bears lost tonight.
They lost because they forgot the fundamentals.
The Bears have Grossman and the Republicans have Trent Lott and Denny Hastert.
I think there are some parallels there.
When people are faced with a choice between huge amounts of Federal largess and only slightly less huge amounts of Federal largess and then get told by both sides that it's 'free', which side do you suppose will garner the most votes?
That's why the Republicans lost. They lost because once again they became the Party of "Us too, just not soo fast." That'll get your ass kicked in an election every time.
Somebody needs to articulate why an overreaching over spending out of control Federal government is a fundamentally bad thing in a way an average voter can understand.
Reagan had that gift.
He could say "A government that's big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it all away" and people understood it. More importantly people believed it.
I just can't say the same for Newt, McCain, Guliani, or any of the others right now. At least I haven't heard it and I pay pretty close attention.
I'll give Newt some props for hanging this out there, but there are only about 3 things in there I can agree with. The rest is either pap, fluff, or worse yet more Federal spending.
L
A big bump to your absolutely on-the-money remarks.
That was actually said by Gerald Ford. He was correct.
Regards, Ivan
Well, like I said above. I'm hoping he will appreciate (and consider) our feedback. Rudy and McCain aren't even in the same league, much less the same ballpark. Maybe even a different game.
They're playing the same game. It's just they're playing for the other team.
L
Thanks for the correction.
L
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Your home page, good stuff, I added it to my favorites.
Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration, President of the United States:
"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure if we have removed their only firm basis; a conviction in the minds of men that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever." - from Query XVIII of his notes on the State of Virginia
And someone should remind Newt that in these areas, "...government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."
Ronald Reagan - http://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan/speeches/first.asp
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