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Originally Posted by Charles
Time will tell. Some people are more valuable on the sidelines while they let someone else run the ball. From a conservative viewpoint, she would be better on the sidelines.
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I agree, for now. Who knows.
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Originally Posted by Charles
For all practical purposes, the Obama Administration looks like the continuance of Bush's third term.
The special interests are still writing laws, we're still in the Middle East, we're still spending money we don't have, GITMO is still open, and the Patriot Act hasn't been revoked.
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I've got a lib friend who calls him Bush Lite
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Originally Posted by noonereal
How do you figure she is a decent American?
The women despises the majority of Americans. How is that good?
Clearly you and I have very different ideas as to what constitutes a "decent America."
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She does work up libs quite nicely
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Originally Posted by Boreas
The Tenthers. They even think that things like the Interstate Highway System, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are unconstitutional. They take the Tenth Amendment, which states, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people", to mean that anything not specifically authorized in the Constitution is beyond the reach of the Federal Government. I think that's crazy on its face. It supposes total clairvoyance on the part of the drafters of the Constitution to foresee all future developments in the world.
I see good and bad in Ron Paul. He really seems to hold the Constitution in reverence and he wants to do away with the Federal Reserve Board but he's too much of a small government Libertarian for my taste.
John
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So, the Constitution doesn't mean what it actually says? The clairvoyance of the Founders is shown in its' clear amendment process. But it is in the best interests of government to ignore it as much as possible.
My problem with Ronnie is stuff like Ron Paul dollars.
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Originally Posted by Boreas
And when the top marginal tax rate was 90% we enjoyed an unprecedented rate of growth in our economy and the middle class grew, in both size and wealth, at a rate never seen before or since. All the low top marginal tax rate has done is make the rich richer and increase the disparity between rich and poor.
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NOBODY paid 90%. It was a farce.
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Originally Posted by Fast_Eddie
Indeed. Keynesian economics worked quite well and built this nation into the strongest on Earth. But, hey, let's throw that all out 'cause ole' Laffer drew a funny picture on a bar nap. Oh, better yet! Laffer's picture doesn't involve any of that pesky math.
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PBS said Keynesian economics was dead. Just fyi :grin:
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Originally Posted by Charles
I know what my station in life is. Cleaning toilets.
Chas
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Sad, sad, and applicable to all us servants of the Chinese.
