Posted on 10/18/2002 11:10:43 AM PDT by brbethke
An enthusiastic BUMP TO THE TOP!
Let's look at the facts boys and girls, for the last ten years we have been following a no-cut, no-clear, no- thin policy in our national forests, at the behest and demand of extreme environmetalists. The last TWO YEARS have seen some 8 million acres burned to the gound, helped in very large part, by those idiotic policies.
Isn't it time we put people back to work (logging and forestry), put people first (not plants and animals) and started following a sane environmental policy? One not funded by the cash cow of the publicly funded Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, et al?
#9. Energy
This one is easy folks. How much do you want to spend in the blood of our countrymen defending vital petro supply lines, when the alternative is to drill ANWR, offshore Califonia & Florida and all other places capable of good domestic production.
Let's also build more coal & nuclear fired powerplants in order to deliver cheap and sustainable power for our country. If I told you it would cost you double and triple your monthly utility payment for Clean solar and wind power, would you really still want it?
The average "poor" person in the US has two televisions. Wanna see poor? Hit the Carribean, Jamaica, Haiti, etc. Check out Africa. See kids with distended stomaches and children starving to death. We have revised "poor" upward dramatically. Also, when compiling statistics on poverty, in order to keep the poverty rate high, most studies only include earned income. They do not include food stamps, WIC programs, welfare, subsidized housing, Medicare or Medicaid, or any other Federally subsidized program. So, no matter how much is provided by the government, these people will still be listed as being "poor." BTW, the "homeless" are generally comprised of two major groups. One is people who don't want to be found because they have felony warrants out for them, the other are people who fried their brains on drugs or have other mental problems who have been "freed" from mental hospitals by the compassionate Rats. Out on the street, they are prey to every predator in the world. Don't worry though, the Rats provide videos on how to get healthy meals out of a dumpster.
Yes! Foreign aid, particularly to those countries and agencies that we know are terrorist supporters, like the PA, Egypt, Pakistan, etc. etc.
If you look at the countries that now threaten us, everyone one was set up and supported by American Foreign Aid.
Hank
The problem is not that they 'sound' like "Democrats Lite". They are so. In fact, on just about any issue that you mentioned there was probably some 'bipartisan' consensus that legislated the socialist changes.
The solution? It's not within the GOP, IMHO.
Most of what you are bitching about are listed under the picture of President Bush with issues listed below.
But for some reason you are not listening nor caring! When was the last time you voted for a Republican. Did you support one of the third party losers in the last election?
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