Posted on 01/03/2008 6:44:03 AM PST by SubGeniusX
PaleoPaulie mistakes the obvious need to slaughter the Islamofascist SOBs with a trade opportunity. He also thinks that the behavior of the Islamofascist etc. is the fault of the United States. In saner times the weasel would have been burned at the stake. Instead we must endure his ongoing campaign of delusion and treason.
Remember when Lenin said that it would be an American businessman who would eagerly sell the soviets the rope supply necessary to hang the American business class? He was right although we prevailed in the Cold War. Substitute Al Qaeda for the soviets and you have updated truth. Like most simpletons of his persuasion, paleoPaulie would sell our country down the river to its enemies for 2 cents plain.
Meanwhile, you should encourage your children to become fluent in Arabic and to memorize the Koran. They will need such things with the legacy that paleoPaulie and the other craven surrendermonkeys are eager to leave them. Oh, did I forget the thing about letters of marque and reprisal??? Avast, Mateys, grab your blunderbusses, we got mail from paleoPaulie! Har, har, har!!!!
As to the growth of spending, I hate to break it to you but we ARE fighting two wars. If you are disappointed with the GOP, imagine how her Satanic Majesty will slash gummint spending to the bone with her general attitude that it takes a tax subsidized village to blow your nose or to wipe your.... Well, you know!
Materialism is a shoddy and vastly inferior substitute for actual conservatism.
However I believe Ron Paul could be very successful in reducing the largess and waste.
Under his “leadership” we will no longer have a government of our own, but one replaced by the dictatorship of our enemies.
This will reduce the federal budget by 100%...
And the population. Now that I think of it, it would solve all our problems.
LOL!
Mitt would be pleased....
Poor Mitt. I wonder how much hairspray he’ll use tonight. It could get ugly between him and..well, everyone else.
The $300 billion we were spending on defense appropriations in 2000-2001 was criminally low. $600 billion in 2008-2009, likewise, particularly with two wars to fight. IIRC, we were spending $300 billion on defense in 1980-1981 (in nominal and not inflation adjusted dollars) with no wars to fight. Meanwhile, welfare state squandering exploded (where do you hallucinate that I support it?) both in nominal and in inflation-adjusted dollars. The overall budget was nowhere near today's $300 billion in 1980-1981 even after four years of Jimmuh Peanut (or far leftist wingnut or whatever).
If you want an isolationist foreign policy, if you want to wreck the American military, if you want to practice anti-Americanism, become a Demonrat or a libertarian. You share McGovern's whining anti-Americanism, why not share his party registration and improve your honesty in the process?
There is NO ROOM in the conservative movement for paleofraud. If integrity prevails, Texas's actual Republicans will choose Chris Peden over the phony that is paleoPaulie and North Carolina Outer Banks actual Republicans will choose Joe McLaughlin to replace blubbering Weepy Walter Jones.
The John Birch Society is NOT the future of the conservative movement. We won't be abolishing the Federal Reserve System any time in our lifetimes. We won't be going total pacifist in order to end the income tax as paleoPaulie fraudulently suggests. We will not set our nation's lips on autosmooch at the sight of Islamofascist butts as paleoPaulie obviously wishes to do. The libertoonian party is NOT the future of the conservative movement. Materialist obsession is NOT either. PaleoPaulie's "concession" speech suggests that the foregoing portion of this paragraph is incorrect. The destruction of paleoPaulie and of paleoPaulieism is well under way. After his destruction in POTUS primaries despite leftist crossover enthusiasm for his anti-Americanism and peacecreepism, he will have to face the music in his Congressional primary from a patriotic former aide Chris Peden and his "GOP" co-conspirator in foreign policy cowardice, Weepy Walter Jones, of the Outer Banks of North Carolina will have to face Joe McLaughlin in a GOP primary where patriots will be able to send Jones's antipatriotic sorry backside out of Washington. Weepy Walter can blubber away full time elsewhere rather than get in the way of our troops' efforts in the Middle East.
IIRC, the last budget of John Kennedy was the first $100 billion budget and fully 60% of that budget was for defense despite some cutbacks under the Democrats (like scrapping the battleships Illinois and Kentucky which were under construction). The federal budget expanded rather dramatically under the phony "war on poverty" which poverty won (a "victory" far better explained by Ronaldus Maximus than by Goldwater). Nixon, in the immortal words of John Wayne in 1968, "with a striped silk shirt and some piano lessons could have worked any room in the house" and had not a shred of principle to his name. Of course that was so long ago that John Wayne could be a Bircher and advocate a manly foreign policy. Then we had Feckless Ford and the worst waste of an Annapolis education in history (Jimmuh Peanut) nominally leading our nation (straight to a bipartisan hell of national weakness). We were spending that $300 billion for defense even after "flee in terror" inclined bimbos like Ford and Carter. Adjust for inflation and rebuild our military at that rate today. Spend on military whatever is necessary. Take it out of pork and welfare state budgets as necessary. We aren't going to be having a national "going out of business sale" on America's manhood whatever beancounter paleoPaulie and the green eye-shaded and sleeve-gartered Paulistinians might lust for.
Our position in the cold war was NOT enhanced by the net efforts of LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter. Each of them, like paleoPaulie thought that the spirit of Kumbaya and trade almighty would be preferable to armed struggle. To LBJ's credit, he waged war in Vietnam but to his discredit, he did not let the military win. To Nixon's credit, he took some substantial efforts in Viet Nam but finally gave in to cut and run and make believe as policy. Ford and Carter are beneath contempt and were the problem (not part of the problem) and no part whatsoever of the solution. Carter is a living nuisance, running all over the world lending his endorsement to every anti-American dictator he can find. Reagan WON the cold war. Bush the Elder got to be in office when the soviet corpse finally toppled over. Reagan WON the cold war by military spending to build a 600 ship navy, and financing High Frontier, financially breaking the soviets while we did not break a sweat financially destroying their capacity to compete.
To the extent that the Social Security Trust Fund will necessarily be exposed as the Ponzi scheme that it is, I would note that elections have consequences and it took many elections to construct that reality. Short of mass murder of the Baby Boomers, there will be no solution but tax increases. If we need to repudiate debts, we can start by repudiating debts to the Red Chinese and not to grandma.
If the value of the dollar goes down, then maybe our financial elites will be forced to keep the jobs here instead of moving those jobs to the Third World. One thing that is worse than class warfare is one way class warfare perpetrated by the guys with the big bucks. We had a social contract here of reasonable expectations of a gently rising standard of living for American workers of modest means. Those workers were the backbone of the military and of social conservatism. Those who employed them were in many cases also backers of the military and of social conservatism but there were always another kind in the employer class (Warren Buffett, et al.) who cared not for our country or for the well-being of its citizens but for their own blind cupidity and the pretensions of the left. Inflation is not half the boogeyman that the financial elites have constructed in its name. It used to be part of the reasonable expectation of a rising standard of living for ordinary Americans. My parents bought a two-family house in a decent Connecticut neighborhood in 1948 for $3000. We spent about $6,000 in 1961 to turn the attic into a third floor apartment. By that time the house was worth $27,000. Take the $6000 off the sale price of $27,000 and you are left with $21,000. My parents $3000 had multiplied by 700% in 13 years. That is why we had modestly increased standards of living for working folks. My dad worked in a cardboard factory and had a base pay of less than $5 per hour in 1975 when he retired. My mom went back to work as a seamstress in about 1955 at a piece work rate of about $1.25 per hour. Later, she took a pay cut (but got better benefits and more respectful treatment) to work at Yale as an office worker.
If we could win a world war sweeping all before us after the Great Depression sapped us for a decade and more, we will manage somehow against less industrialized Islamofascists to build and maintain a military fully capable of erasing them as a military force. If you think that government spending and programs have exploded under Dubya, take another look at the FDR era. If the fed prints some money, I will try to console myself.
Take a long-range look at the stock market and its DJA. Do you think that a DJA of nearly $13,000 is evidence of economic distress. It may have gotten to $2,000 or a little more under Ronaldus Maximus. Investors need not nibble their fingernails down to the elbows. They are doing very well, thank you very much.
BTW, I don't "ignore the problem." I just recognize that it is vastly overrated, not unlike "global warming." If you think we have economic problems today, try the paleopipsqueak solution, flee in terror from Iraq and watch the oil prices rise to infinity. Also watch the behavior of a world (often quite as anti-American as some of our leftist and paleowhatever domestic idiots) when that world is secure in the notion that the US is too crippled by its own softness to wage war.
You want to avoid the costs of war??? Find an affordable and preferably renewable source of energy that will not force substantial reductions in lifestyle like miniature deathtraps posing as automobiles or donning a Jimmuh Peanut autographed cardigan or three while turning the heat down to 47 while sweltering all summer. That and not trade-oriented campfire singing of Kumbaya with our vicious enemies is the capitalist solution. Let the world beat a path to our technological door. Abrogate the trade treaties and squeeze the world and do it with great benefit to our domestic work force.
Expansion of defense spending is a cherished goal and neither the problem nor even part of the problem. It also tends to be spent at home on the wages of Americans building helicopters, guns, submarines, bombers, missiles, fighters, tanks and other products that we are understandably reluctant to farm out to the Third World.
If you insist on supporting the likes of paleoPaulie over mere lucre, have the grace to avoid any pretense of either conservatism or Republicanism or patriotism. The future of American conservatism will be Reaganism and not Goldwaterism. Fiscal responsibility (fiscal conservatism) will be a long-term goal approached incrementally. Social conservatism and military/foreign policy conservatism (interventionism) and the RTKBA are present and permanent necessities. If those who worship dollars are uncomfortable with that, they can be replaced.
>we will no longer have a government of our own,<
Why do you believe that we have a government of our own? Are you lost?
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Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does.
You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on
appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don’t control monetary policy, The Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices - 545 human beings out of the 300 million - are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress.
In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered but private central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason.
They have no legal authority.
They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman or a president to do one cotton-picking thing.
I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall.
No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.
The president can only propose a budget.
He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes.
Who is the speaker of the House?
She is the leader of the majority party.
She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want.
If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts - of incompetence and irresponsibility.
I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people.
When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red.
If the Marines are in Iraq , it’s because they want them in Iraq .
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it’s because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power.
Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like ‘the economy,’ ‘inflation’ or ‘politics’ that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses - provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Charlie Reese is a former columnist
of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper
The answer to your question is contained within the very column you quote, indeed in the very last statement:
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
As of right now, we can still do that, under the protection of the very Constitution Mr. Reese mentions, the one Ron Paul supporters say he, and they, love so much and are such "experts' on. Of course if you are an expert on the Constitution, and I am not saying you claim to be, but many RP supporters here love to think they are and it is a popular RP supporter meme, then you would never needed to ask me this question.
I highly doubt our muslim enemies, or any others that will seek to take advantage of our weakness, will prize that right and keep it sacred for us.
The American people have the government they have elected, all arguments and conspiracy theories aside, and until they as a whole decided to change their path, that is what we will deal with. However the power to change that path still rests within "We the People".
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