Posted on 12/29/2001 9:27:49 AM PST by Demidog
If I think about it,
nobody, not even my government,
has the right to give my money
to a badly ran business.
Let them declare bankruptcy.
I have better uses for my charity.
“Disclosure to Congress of confidential advice to the attorney general regarding the appointment of a special counsel and confidential recommendations to Department of Justice officials regarding whether to bring criminal charges would inhibit the candor necessary to the effectiveness of the deliberative process by which the department makes prosecutorial decisions,” Bush wrote.
He added, “It is my decision that you should not release these documents or otherwise make them available to the committee. ... I have decided to assert executive privilege.” Burton decried the decision. “This is not a monarchy,” he said. “The legislative branch has oversight responsibility to make sure there is no corruption in the executive branch.”
That's what I said.
Auctions are Constitutionally allowed.
Commercial enterprises are not.
Government is not allowed
to participate in private sector profits.
What was he asking for and from who?
The attacks of 9/11 did tremendous damage to our nation's airlines. Congress may take steps to try to minimize that damage.
If you don't like the policy, write your Congressman.
There isn't any mention of "auctions" in the Constitution. According to the Constitution, Congress sets the rules regarding the manner in which it disposes of federal property. Auctions, sales, leases; that's up to Congress to decide.
Whew! I am ROTF!
HeHe
The article is innocent as a baby. Baby rattlesnake.
Yes it does, Roscoe.
Use your own source,
Article 1, Section 8.
Go to Clause 14. "To make Rules for the Government..."
How to dispose of government property
would be covered under "rules for the government."
# 731 by exodus
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To: exodus
So if the rules provided for profit,
it would be Constitutional by your own argument.
Another self-refutation.
# 739 by Roscoe
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"Always throw it out in the yard" is a rule.
"Always dispose of property at auction" is a rule.
"Buy a building, fill it with government workers,
make good products, and sell them for a profit"
is a business.
"Rules" are allowed.
"Business" is not.
"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America as an independent press. You know it and I know it.
There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job.
If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty- four hours my occupation would be gone.
The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread.
You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press?
We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men.
We are intellectual prostitutes."
John Swinton, former Chief of staff for the New York Times. Called by his peers “The Dean of His profession.” He stated the above when He was asked to give a toast before the New York Press Club in 1953.
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The Libertarian position is laughable.
"And wait for an attack to occur before "using tax dollars." Terrorist just hafta love that."
Ain't that what just happened?
"...nobody, not even my government,
has the right to give my money
to a badly ran business.
Let them declare bankruptcy.
I have better uses for my charity.
# 741 by exodus
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To: exodus
The attacks of 9/11 did tremendous damage to our nation's airlines.
Congress may take steps to try to minimize that damage.
If you don't like the policy, write your Congressman.
# 745 by Roscoe
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Saying
"if you don't like it, write your Congressman"
is the same as saying "shut up."
I'm talking to you, Roscoe.
I want your opinion, not useless advice.
More or less. Clinton said he was a libertarian.
Opinions are like bellybuttons. The actual Constitution is there for the reading.
Doesn't that mean they get 33% of profit, if there is any, plus the repayment of the loan?
I really am asking.
I don't know what this means.
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