One Democrat From Disaster

Free Republic ^ | 7/31/2003 | Reagan Renaissance

[Reagan Renaissance]

Part II will follow next week. Each new article will be indexed with links to prior threads. Welcome and thank you for your participation. Our goal is the Reagan Renaissance.

[babyface00]

Any chance you might create a ping list for your articles? If so, I'd like to be on it.

[alisasny]

put me on your ping list thanks

[Bahbah]

Same here re the ping list. Intriguing beginning.

[Old Sarge]

put me on your ping list thanks

Ditto, and Wlecome to FR!

[Stat-boy]

Please add me.

Thanks!

[Russell Scott]

America will survive into eternity. I'll bet anybody any amount of money (if I had any).

[centurion]

Please add me also.

[Russell Scott]

And it wouldn't matter if Hillary Clinton was President. God could have her out in a field chewing on grass at the snap of a finger if he desired. America has one huge problem, it puts way too much faith in a bunch of specks of dying dust (fallen humans), and way too little faith in the eternal, no beginiing, no ending, creator of ALL, and his Son Jesus, who ALREADY sealed the deal that NO amount of evil can ever, EVER!!!!, EVER!!!! defeat.

[Jack Black]

Please provide links for the Fed article mentioned. This article is all wind up and no pitch. I'd like to see where you go with it and put me on the list.

I don't think these mandates are that big a deal. There are several obvious ways out of this problem, which governments have been getting themselves into since Rome. The first and most obvious is to inflate the currency. By inflating while under-reporting or under-indexing the inflation you can essentially lower payments to those you owe money to.

Another thing is simply lowering service levels on madated services. Yes, you get medicare but what is covered? That can be changed in the background with little debate. Happens all the time.

Raising ages on the retirement benefits is almost assured. It is constantly discussed, and even some of the Dems support that.

In summary I seriously doubt that mandates will cause the USA to fall. I also doubt that Democrats getting elected will cause this. It will probably assure gay marraige though.

Anyway, post away. Hopefully we can get to the meat of the discussion next time. Why the delayed posting schedule? Are you still writing this? If not I suggest just putting it up and letting us get on with it.

[Stat-boy]

RS:

I agree with you 100%, to whit:

“And it wouldn't matter if Hillary Clinton was President. God could have her out in a field chewing on grass at the snap of a finger if he desired. America has one huge problem, it puts way too much faith in a bunch of specks of dying dust (fallen humans), and way too little faith in the eternal, no beginiing, no ending, creator of ALL, and his Son Jesus, who ALREADY sealed the deal that NO amount of evil can ever, EVER!!!!, EVER!!!! defeat.”

Nevertheless, He gave us the capacity to think and reason, the ability to analyze and attempt to solve problems. For example, when my boy needed stitches, my wife and I prayed, and we always knew he was in His hands; but we still took our son to the doc! It’s a similar thing here. Just trying to understand the social and economic issues facing our country.

[El Laton Caliente]

"Government is composed of bureaucrats and politicians. Can you think of any worse groups of people to entrust with important responsibilities? Whom do you believe is the source of our problems?"

Most of the politicians are lawyers making law for lawyers. Combine that with the living constitution concept and you have disaster.

I would like on the ping list...

[Blood of Tyrants]

Two points. First, if Bush had spent more money and time in the blue states, he would undoubtedly have still lost the state and the EC votes that would have gone with them yet would have gotten a few more percent of the votes. It didn't matter if Bush didn't get a single vote in any of the blue states, the number of EC votes is the same. He spent very little time or money in Californication and NJ and the others because he knew that it was a waste of time and energy and money.

IMO, the founding fathers flubbed on the EC thing, creating an eternal two party system that virtually locks all others out of office and power. A 50% + 1 vote with a runnoff between the top two in case no one gets a majority would break the backs of the two party system.

Second, the Republicans are poised to create ANOTHER unconstitutional entitlement that will cost us trillions of dollars. How are they any better than the Rats when it comes to fighting socialism?

[Elliott Jackalope]

Short version: Trust in God, but tie up your camel.

Funny how thinking about Hillary reminded me of that quote.

[iceskater]

Please add me to your ping list.

[LS]

Well, just last week, there was an article on the coming federal treasury BOOM, which will be caused when all of the non-taxed retirement plans of the baby-boomers suddenly become eligible for taxation. According to the author (I think it was on NRO), these revenues would not only pay Medicare and SS, but would leave money left over. I think the tax revenues based on this funds came to $13 TRILLION!!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Money left over? LOL! Politicians make sure that they NEVER have "money left over". They have proven that they can spend ANY amount of money. And the Pubs are no better than the Rats in this arena.

[deport]

On the other hand, Al Gore got over a million more votes than Bush, proving that the voters got it wrong.

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Where are you getting that info?

[LS]

Guess that's what those tax cuts were all about huh. Not having money left over?

[LS]

Oh, and for the historical record, the Jackson administration had a surplus that it returned to the states. One of the very few measures that AJ did that didn't increase the size of government.