Posted on 02/10/2008 7:28:17 PM PST by davidosborne
Sorry Gov. Crist not buying it... anyone else watcing this?
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he’s bad on all 3.
There was no WOT in 1993. Terrorism was never given or even thought of as a reason to go into Somalia.
*There was no WOT in 1993.*
Tell that to the folks who were bombed at the World Trade Center in 1993.
The enemy was already fighting the WOT only we didn’t know it and Clinton could have cared less.
I missed that post earlier. I fully agree. In fact it is Constitutionally mandated in terms of national security. Unfortunately none of the three likely to be the next Pres. has any interest in doing that. They are all sitting Senators and have actively fought against it.
I don’t have to tell it to anyone. It is a simple fact that we did not go into Somalia because of terrorism and no one in power was fighting a WOT.
fiscal conservative means not spending so much and blowing the deficit. It means reforming social security, medicare, medicaid, UI, etc. It means not raising taxes. It doesn’t mean supporting each and every tax cut...but he does support cutting taxes.
Greedy people do need to be punished...there is too much collusion between corporations and government. Look at all the special favors in the tax code and govt programs. He wants to get rid of all that corporate welfare and protectionist policies.
mcCain does seem to be following in Teddy Roosevelt’s footsteps. Teddy was for an estate and progressive income tax, not for income redistribution and equality, but rather he felt the rich should pay more because their wealth was made possible by the protection the govt provides them. I think everyone now agrees that if we’re going to tax, we should tax the rich instead of the poor. The US used to tax the poor with tariffs and excise taxes.
Even a flat tax with a standard deduction will be somewhat progressive. McCain does sound like he is in favor of such an overhaul. But not a fair tax and certainly not our current system where well heeled people pay accountants to find all kinds of loopholes.
He doesn’t believe in *soaking* the rich. That will come from a real liberal who wants redistribution of wealth.
He also understands the laffer curve. Cutting tax rates does increase revenue but there is a limit. A zero tax on large estates means zero revenue and that means everyone else has to pay more taxes to make up the revenue. It would also seem unfair for a Paris Hilton, who never had to do anything to earn her keep, should get off completely simply because she had the right parents.
yeah but I was talking about attriting down the illegal population. Eventually there will be no illegals but it could take decades after a fence is built.
the mission in iraq is more than nation building. It is of strategic importance. You can’t say that about somalia.
looks like you need a Rudy for mayor. Duncan Hunter was able to get a fence for San Diego. Perhaps your city can do that too and I think those two things will cut down on the crime very quickly.
It’s dealing with the millions of peaceful illegals across the country that will take a while. The majority don’t get into trouble and avoid detection.
I live in San Diego and Duncan Hunter is one of our 5 congressmen.
As I said earlier, D.C. has played passive agressive with the issue and have not put forward the major double fence that was started in the eastern part of the county.
and San Diego is the largest city in the U.S. with a Republican Mayor
My daughter will proudly vote for Senator Mccain in Virginia next week!
Why? That does not make sense. Your daughter does not seem conservative if she is doing this.
That may be a detail we just disagree about. I think serious enforcement on the employers would make that attrition happen very fast. It only took about ten years for the greater percentage of them to come here. If jobs dried up they would leave quickly. Handout need to dry up too. Without jobs and entitlements it costs a lot more to live here than where they came from. They would leave while they have funds to live off of back home.
Peaceful or not, the illegals are costing San Diego mega millions a year. If tens of thousands of illegals came into your city and still entering over running your hospitals, and every other social service.
Your culture is changed for them.
I watched over 50,000 march here with Marxist signs.
All their crime here is overrunning our prison system.
Our Federal Court system is busier than NYC.
This is an invasion and another theater in the WOT
Get a clue
I agree that Iraq is more important and for several reasons. That is still beside the point. McCain is not consistent on military and foreign policy matters. Emotion rules him and reason rarely trips through his little brain.
well the problem is that many employers pay cash under the table.
i do have a clue but dealing with them may cost billions, not millions. And if you are caught up looking for all illegals, you won’t be able to go after more serious crime. It will be harder than going after marijuana, which many argue should be decriminalized.
you’ll probably find that most conservatives wanted to just get out of somalia at that time. They wanted to get us out of clinton’s mess. I don’t think you really have much of an argument here. Get him on gitmo and waterboarding, not this.
There sure seems to be a strong resistance to enforcing the law in Washington. Are those pols afraid the people will demand that our laws be enforced on them next?
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