Posted on 11/22/2007 11:38:31 PM PST by Kurt Evans
OK. So what the heck are we arguing about?
“and thinks that laws don’t matter if he doesn’t like them”
Goodness gracious....this sounds like an extreme libertarian to me... :-)
“OK. So what the heck are we arguing about?”
That’s what I keep trying to tell everyone that I’m not arguing with them per se. I just want folks to be a little more objective in their analyses and not so polarizing. You will notice that my “agenda” is just not obtainable in the current national climate, but I’m not going to slam every GOP candidate because none of them live up to what I want.
In the immortal (or is that immoral?) words of the Rolling Stones.....”You can’t always get what you want.....but if you try sometimes you get what you need.” :-)
I draw the line with baby killers and nanny staters.
Huck unapologetically kicked his legal tax paying Arkansas constituents out of restaurants because they wanted to enjoy a legal product...cigars and cigarettes on private property that the State does not own.
He wants to do the same nationally. Why should anybody who smokes or has a grandma who smokes want to vote for him?
“Huck unapologetically kicked his legal tax paying Arkansas constituents out of restaurants because they wanted to enjoy a legal product...cigars and cigarettes on private property that the State does not own.”
To be honest with you, I despise cigarette and cigar smoking and if it went away, it wouldn’t bother me at all. HOWEVER, I do not think that a government should ban smoking in restaurants. If someone like myself doesn’t want to be exposed to smoke, I can go elsewhere - I’m not compelled to eat there. The decision to allow smoking, ban it, or segregate it in an eating establishment should belong to the owner. The owner has to cater to his clients.
Now buildings that the public must do business in are a different matter. If I must do business in a building, then I shouldn’t be forced to endure breathing in or smelling someone else’s unhealthy habit. This gets trickier to define.
Wow. I couldn’t have said it better myself. Obviously nobody can blame you for despising the smell of cigars or cigarettes, its understandable. That’s why it would stand to reason in a free market that if somebody opens up a non smoking bar or restaurant, they will get business from people who prefer a non smoking environment.
Ironically, Huck used to agree with you. He was against the smoker bans before he was for it. It was after his near death experience with diabetes when he got religion on health.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924867/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1930498/posts
HERE’S THE TRANSCRIPT:
I’m also going to ask that we open financial aid for any student graduating from a high school in Arkansas. There’s something terribly unjust about a kid whose family came here looking for opportunity and that kid maybe has come, at the age of four, as happened in a school in El Dorado. And that student of hispanic descent, spent his entire career as a student in Arkansas public schools, from the age of four. Graduated from high school, one of the top kids in his class, but when he applied for financial aid, he wasn’t eligible for the various scholarships or grants because of his status — a status that he had no decision in and no control over.
Do we want to change fhe future for those kids? Then let’s give them the opportunity. Let’s not say that our doors are open but our opportunities are closed. Let’s open both our doors and our opportunities and create a whole new generation of kids who have the opportunity to be prosperous and to bring to their families a hope that they came here for.
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