Posted on 01/15/2012 2:22:11 PM PST by Hoodat
Forgot the sarc tag?
Hey thanks a lot Finny I really appreciate that. I also agree with u about huckaborem having to be righteous and step out I just hope he can put his damn ego aside n do it before it gets worse and perry too. Oh hey can u ping that cspan video for me?? I’d like to see it. Thanks FRiend. :-)
GO NEWT!!!!! And also
VOTE NEWT!!!
So what?
That he's not only still standing, but spitting in the Democrat party's eye by running for President is beyond heroic. It's amazing. I know Stephanopolous and the whole Clinton mafia thought they had successfully destroyed him.
You'll have to point out which post I wrote that in. I don't recall saying that. I may have said that Newt has a record of too often falling back on big government fixes to problems. But I doubt I'd have written anything like you paraphrase me to have written, because I don't believe it. While Newt is not at the top of my list, he's higher than Mitt, who's at the bottom of the page, right below Paul. That (virtual/symbolic) page has lots of white space above them.
But thanks for pointing out Jim's post and pointing me to the videos of Newt. He certainly sounded good and said all the right things. Jim's post made me re-think some of my choices. Well I have a while to do that, Texas primary isn't until April 3. Besides, if it's like '08, it'll all be over before I get to weigh in anyway. That is more than merely off-putting.
Although being in my 55th week of unemployment, I got a little upset as his characterization of it has being paid for doing nothing. I spend hours nearly every day looking for a job, including weekends. (and I'm getting D@*- tired of it too). I'm out of work because "The One" has cut the defense budget by the artifice of underfunding the war effort, thus requiring money be moved from R&D, other O&M accounts, etc. The Army not only did not renew our contract, they didn't even put it up for re-bid. All three of the testing systems, two in development and one in sustainment, were eliminated. My company, which had transferred me to that sort of "in house" contract support assignment pretty much against my wishes, then did not take me back to their main site, as they had promised, in writing, to make every effort to do, should our contract be lost. Not really their fault though, with the cutbacks there was no appropriate work available at the main site either, still isn't, as I've checked every few weeks.
Newt suggests getting retraining. But I've already got an MS EE, plus about 30 additional graduate credits in engineering and mathematics, plus lots of on the job training in various military systems related technologies. I could use a refresher course in C/C++ and other languages, since I had no cause to use them at that "on site" support job. I didn't think I'd be out long enough to complete such a course, and I knew I'd have to move for any position I did get.
Turns out I was wrong, I'd have had time for two semesters of courses. But to tell me to get an associates degree was sort of off-putting, as I'm sure y'all can understand. Besides no one is going to hire a 62 y/o electrician or HVAC repairman any more than a 62 y/o military systems engineer.
But the immediate problem is not lack of qualifications, it's lack of jobs, due to the taxing, borrowing and monetary polices of the federal government. I know a young guy, 22 or so, son a retired Marine, who got that associates degree, in Diesel engine mechanics, and who could not find a position in that field. He went to work at a parts place, but got laid off from that. Now he's a service writer for a Mazda dealership, but not making nearly what a Diesel engine mechanic could make. Still lives with his parents out of economic necessity.
Unfortunately his father was a citizen at birth. Not a native born one, but by law. Because his father, Mitt's paternal grandfather, was a citizen, as was Mitt's paternal grandmother, both having been born in the US, Mitt's father was born a citizen. Even back then, as now, the child of citizens, born outside the country, was a citizen by law.
Mitt was thus born in the US of citizen parents, making him a natural born citizen. The same cannot be said of the other party's presumed candidate.
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