Posted on 02/11/2004 11:00:20 AM PST by Lando Lincoln
It's the Neil Diamond solution:
I am, I said To no one there And no one heard at all Not even the chair I am, I cried I am, said I
He's merely handing me a credit card balance that I'll have to pay off down the road.
The deficit will fall as revenue increases, just as it did after Reagan's tax cuts.
The Debt/GDP was declining from 1945 to 1980, from the WWII high of 114% to 32% in 1981. It ballooned again to 60% under Reagan because he had an adversarial congress. It is ballooning again now, but wait...why isn't Bush using his veto to stop spending? Why isn't congress fighting his spending tooth and nail like they did against Clinton?
I must assume you are a conservative of the green eye shade variety, who only cares about your perceived pocketbook, nevermind the threat from terrorists.
Nah. I give Bush credit for fighting abortion, and as I said, gave him a pass on AWB at the time because I believed it was just a pre-election ruse to get the soccar mom's vote. But now I believe he really does want to grab the very guns we may need to blow ali muhammed's turban off his shouders. He could have every airline pilot who so wishes armed right now, but his fed underlings are still holding the process up. I think the Patriot Act is garbage. I think his open borders stance represents a greater terrorist threat than all the cavity searches of granny at the airport combined.
One thing that you said in passing struck me as something many of us are forgetting now:
But these most definitely are NOT ordinary times.
They haven't been ordinary since 9/11, and I doubt that they're going to go back to "ordinary" again for some time. Perhaps Bush has been too successful in restoring confidence and getting us back to more or less normal again, and we've forgotten.
But if we don't realize this and stop squabbling and get Bush and a bunch of good solid GOP senators in, then I think we're going to be in for a much rougher ride much sooner than we expected. The entire world is waiting to pounce on us if we stumble, and we'd do more than stumble with a Kerry - we'd fall flat on our faces, and we'd be fair game for the wolf pack.
Maybe that's a little apocalyptic of me, but I really see this election as something of crucial importance to our continued future.
I know one thing, his screen name is a misnomer. He is entitled to vote for whom he chooses, and is entitled to all of his opinions. We have a right to respectfully disagree, and I now take that right. Anyone who would, even in the smallest degree, aid and abet the election of a socialist, U.N. loving gigolo, is no conservative.!
You're exactly right. And I'm damn proud of it.
Because the ONLY thing standing between ME and the liberals taking over this country IS the Republican Pary.
If you're willing to give it to them, you'll have to live with it.
I like it.
Actually, it scares me...
The problem is that we no longer live in a very conservative country. The old institutions that held society together since time began, which is to say, family, friends, neighbors, are not held in high regard. The idea that people should look after themselves and one another without government intruding is simply not a part of the national dialogue. No one is going for it, and therein lies the rub. If you can't sell it to your neighbor, you aren't going to sell it nationally.
But while we fight that battle out on the homefront, we can't afford to lose it all to the globalists. It is humorous to hear people attacking the US as the supreme globalist, while complaining that we are acting unilaterally. The globalists are the ones who want us to submit to global institutions that none of us elected, which care nothing for the principles we care about.
We are fighting a two front battle. The muslim nutcases are a real foe, and if they manage to get at us they can do real harm. But the other part of the battle is against the people that want us to submit to a supranational authority that none of us elected. Hence Kyoto, hence ICC, UN, and on and on. Hence the belief that US troops under US command are a threat to the world, whereas the same US troops under UN command are suddenly transformed into a positive. The people who espouse this are people who have forgotten, or never knew, what we stand for.
Which is fine, we don't have to elect them into power.
I am disturbed at the direction things are going domestically. Bush has been ineffective in turning things around on that front. But its a democracy, you can't force people to go where they don't want to go, tragic as that may be. But we live to fight another day, if we manage to carry the day on the other fronts, against the people who want to do us harm, and the people that want to rule us without our consent. Those two fronts GW has handled well, and if we lose on those two the third is settled without firing a shot.
So I will hang with him. You have to be realistic, we work with imperfect human tools. Just as a vote for Nader is a vote for Bush, in the current environment, and I heartily encourage all Democrats to vote their conscience and vote Nader, a conservative voter sitting home this November is a vote for the ICC, and Kyoto, and Kofi Annan. And Chirac, and the Belgian judges salivating at the possibility of putting US servicemen on trial.
Try "It's the voters, stupid." The new coalition of Disgruntle Conservatives and Hateful Liberals want to do to Bush what they did to his father. One side wants to stab him in the back and the other side wants to drive a stake through his heart. What a bunch of sick bastards.
You're both insignificant.
Keep thinking that way...we'll see what happens in November.
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