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Posted on 07/07/2008 5:50:59 PM PDT by prolifefirst
Stay at The Broadmoor sometime. Man, oh, man, that is incredible. I have never stayed at a better place and the Ritz is over the top which tells you something.
TREASON?
Please tell me how serving our country for six years and becoming a disabled veteran in the process is treasonous? Recruiting candidates for industry is treasonous? Are you drunk, high or mentaly ill? WTF?
Pretty ‘brassy’ to blow your own horn! Lol.
How does making a good living equate to treason? That is conservatism at its heart: work hard, do well.
That accounts for the jar of pickles that’s just out of the frame.
Your posted response about people with money not being chastised how they spend it is well received. Of course the money is theirs and they and only they have the right to dispose of it as they see fit.
However the following two sentences you added are way, way over the top.
“What is killing the conservative cause is the evangelicals brought in by Reagan. Flame on FR! This is a prime example of what I mean.
Evangelicals care more for shoving their religion down the throats of the heathens than adhering to limited government or the Constitution.”
By making these two statements you have shined the light on yourself as one who has a tremendous hatred for “Evangelicals”. This hatred can do you no good, my FReeper friend.
I actually love evangelicals and live in the heart of them.
I am not out to besmirch a lot of great people but to say we need to remove the evangelical issues from our platform: they do nothing but hurt a basic, common cause: limited government. We need limited government. That means dropping stuff like abortion, WOD, gay rights, prayer in schools, etc. from our platform.
Limited government means don’t tread on me and the evangelical planks hurt us all. I love the people but I don’t want their planks in the overall platform. We should stand for individual rights. I don’t agree with a lot of crap but it is the States to decide (per the 10th Amendment).
Of course not! She prefers chocolate sauce when we...er...nevermind...
I wanted to add....
Where does the Constitution say anything about drugs?
Where does the Constitution say anything about abortion?
Where does the Constitution say anything about gay marriage?
Where does the Constitution say anything about pornography?
Where does the Constitution say anything about helmet laws?
Where does the Constitution say anything about seat belts?
Where does the Constitution say anything about gambling?
It doesn’t. What it does say is that the states reserve all rights. The over-reaching rights of the feds run both ways. The Libs want our taxes and a nanny-state and the evangelicals want to use the government to make us live according to Christian theology: both are wrong.
I support Christian theology but don’t force it upon people. We have a basic law for a reason and yet it abandoned by liberals and conservatives.
I guess you are free to carry it around in your head if it makes you feel good.
I appreciate the support. The $1000 dinner was for 4 and it was the best dinner the family ever had. Worth every penny, btw.
The appeal toward the evangelicals pulled the party away from what they should have been. It may have been needed to win an election, I understand that, but it watered down an essential message which is limited government according to a basic Constitution.
I am a relic: I actually read and appreciate the Constition. Simple stuff. A few Articles, less than 30 Amendments. Not hard to read. Not hard to sell, but the Republicans can’t seem to understand that we can sell to liberals (no Patriot Act), sell to evangelicals (no Roe v Wade), sell to gays (no right to ban gay marriage), sell to economists (limited taxation), sell to lots of people.
Recognize that expanding the government to allow for the WOD and anti-gay rights also means allowing them in elsewhere.
I’m done.
I certainly agree that we should all emphasize limited govt., sound constitutionalism, and sound economic policies above all (well I would also emphasize a high level of national defense, however best defined, not sure how you would address that). A lot of the “social” and “cultural” issues I would not emphasize as much all the time although I do think it is well justified to try to roll back the excesses of liberal mis-readings of the Constitution and especially the 1st and 14th Amendments, which have been expanded far beyond any ‘originalist’ understanding of their meanings. ALso, of course the 10th Amendment needs to be strongly revived since it has been just about forgotten.
Don’t divulge any info about yourself again!
You are being drawn into a trap!
The whole concept of brokered employment is anti-free market. You try very hard to convince yourself that you are a capitalist, but you know that you are not putting any capital at risk, other than for your telephone, which everyone has to have. You go to great lengths on your home page to show that you scored as a "conservative" on some internet quiz. Why would you need to try so hard to convince yourself that you are a conservative, unless you have some serious doubts about your true leanings?
Recruiters make their money by leeching half or more of the earnings of people who do productive work. You don't earn what you get. You get it by manipulating the market between those who provide services and those who purchase the services. That isn't "free market", and it isn't "capitalism". It's simply a manipulated market, with the blood-sucking recruiting firms cheating both the producers and the consumers.
And if you are part of one of the vast majority of those firms that discriminate against American citizens in favor of H1-B fraud, then you are anti-American and a traitor, regardless of your past service.
Anotherwords, you know nothing about recruiting: 1.) If I was getting half of someone’s earnings I’d be the richest recruiter in the world, except that no business would pay me half of someone’s salary to recruit a candidate. The normal percentage is 15-25%, and that DOES NOT come out of the worker’s salary, it’s paid by the employer. 2.) If you feel that H1-B visas are fraudulent, I would suggest contacting your congressional representatives and asking that that program be done away with. I don’t recruit candidates from other countries, but I’d have no problem doing so if an employer asked me to, because it’s perfectly LEGAL. 3.) How am I “blood-sucking” a worker when I match him/her up with a lucrative position that pays more than their current job? 4.) How am I “blood-sucking” an employer when I find them good workers that can take their company to a higher level and produce greater profits? 5.) You do realize that all sales & marketing consists of “brokering” goods and services “by manipulating the market between those who provide services and those who purchase the services..” don’t you? Without salespeople like us, our economy would resemble that of North Korea, Cuba or Zimbabwe!
Who exactly am I cheating? The worker thrilled with the challenge of a new, higher-paying position or the employer glad to have a productive employee with skills that are useable by his company?
Your screed leads me to think that your candidate this year has the initials “Ron Paul” and that he’s got you worked up into a lather over the NWO, NAFTA, Black Helicopters, Flouride, H1-B’s and precious bodily fluids, etc.. Not that their’s anything wrong with that!
You are being drawn into a trap!
He's trying, isn't he? I only divulge info here to people I've actually met, or have dealt with here for a loooong time and I don't want to know that gentleman. Telling him my occupation does him no good; there are probably a million recruiters in the United States at any given time, and he doesn't know my name, location, etc. Class envy has no place in the conservative movement, being that it's a socialist concept.
Just remember what you are saying!
It WILL be used against you in the foolish court of useless opinions!
I don’t need to know about the Depression when I see people buying steak for their dogs using food stamps because they can’t buy dog food with them....
Here's a picture of Deloris Erickson, the cover model of the Alpert album, as she appears today.
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