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Dictators don't seize power. It's given to them.
Use your energy to start a local None Of The Above on the ballot movement or something useful. Can't zing him at the top bite at the ankles.
BEWARE of those who try to split us up over hairlines of crap. The Libs LOVE it when we tear ourselves apart, and nitpick our own over petty stuff - because it makes Queen Hillary a shoe-in, just like it did with King Obama the last.
What we really need, however, is a congress who is not afraid to impeach an officeholder if they show an utter contempt for this country, its common (meaning all of us) values, and it's constitution. And deny anyone who has such contempt from gaining the support to even think of running for more than Local Dog-Catcher.
I'm now thinking Carson may be a good vice-President.
I may change my mind about both these guys. Plenty of time to evaluate. .
Yes. I wonder if his father could have won if he had gotten the nomination. I have this dream that someone like him will appear who can sell the idea of less gov't, not just less gov't in areas their supporters don't like anyone but all around gov't spending/doing less.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWi182CM...
Regarding the MORE gov't thing, I don't support the recent proposed increases in spending and taxes. People do not realize we are poised to have a mini-crisis, and it would be much easier to balance the budget now before it becomes a crisis.
You keep saying "you voted" as if I created the world I was born into or as if the only righteous thing to do is not work with the major parties. If Obama hadn't been elected president and no third party longshot won, we'd have a Republican president. We could feel righteous about supporting a third-party or boycotting the process, but we'd have less liberty.
"I say we already had forced insurance, but it wasn't the insured paying for it." I assume you are talking about rising healthcare costs due to uninsured getting free care. However, so far, the numbers do not ber out a savings. People are paying more out of pocket and getting less benefits than they were before ACA passed. some people are in bureaucratic nightmares of having to get new insurance every few months due to the train wreck this legislation has caused. We are all responsible for our votes and you continue to praise the President so I assume you approve of his policies and agenda over all. that would be a reasonable interpretation anyway.
This is a clear case where the cliche about assuming is true.
yes, cg, you make intentionally contradictory claims all the time. A is A
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(Edited for clarification of the point.)
No real difference in outcome.
It's not a two party system it's a one party system with two faces. Republicans are the right wing OF the left. the only righteous thing to do is not support either of the halves of the Government Party.
Of course you can fool enough of the people all of the time using one trick or another....then you to could be a GINO in a Republic In Name Only.
Yes. That's my point exactly. I would call them both center-right, but whatever you want to call them, they do not debate whether the fed gov't should take a quarter of GDP and whether the fed gov't should be involved in all areas of life.
On GDP. It's an ill defined or non defined catch phrase. Like anything the meanings used change hourly in support of the party, The important information if it could be believed is NDP. What percentage is used for debt service. What are the devaluation percentages? $2.85 a gallon sounds way kewl but this is 2015. 16 years ago I was paying $.95 - ninety five cents.
Figures can Lie, Liars can figure and if their mouths are moving... etc.
Federal Government Involvement. Are the states small 's' just departments of the federal government? Not when the Senators and Representatives cannot be the subject of recall or can be chosen by out of the area money.
Think it through. All of it.
A Republic In Name Only seems a fair description.
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I think I see it the same way but just reversed definitions. Since by my thinking "right wing" means rights flowing from the gov't to the citizens, instead of the other way around, I see us as having two rightwing parties. This is one reason the left/right thing is meaningless. We should just use the gov't thing.
I don't see the value of the USD as being related to this since it's very easy to raise prices. The old notion of "menu costs" to update all your paperwork is hardly an issue anymore. You can raise prices electronically to maintain a constant value.
Previously it was strictly and up and down definition King on top cannon fodder and baby factories on the bottom. In modern terms the Government Party whose center is the center of the Left refers to the rest of us as fly overs as they look down. Those of us in fly over country look up as they pass and think " Look at all the a--holes."
Trick is to define the true center.l For us it's the Constitution. For them it's their center - not ours. Ergo sum Democrats are the left wing of the left and Republicans the right wing of the left as they both hold that Government controls citizens. We take the opposite viewpoint as a divine right constitutional right.
100 years of being told he opposite and worse having so many agree. As the philosopher said
Dictators don't take power it's given to them. Or in the words of P.T. Barnum You only need to fool most of the people most of the time. With the education system, most of the the media spouting the current party line we end up where we are. As many of the left have said from Lenin to our own home grown version Anything said that supports or promotes the party is the truth."
Add it all up and looking up I truly like the observation "What as bunch of amazing A--holes.) Then I go back to reality as part of the 30 or 40% of disenfranchised looking for a home and trying not to support evil.
Ditto on electronic money. It's whatever they say it is. Hate to say it but even after a bankruptcy they just printed more and have the ability to do so. Which makes T Bills paid off in full but in devalued buying power a lot safer than FDIC if your in that bracket.
I like Paul, but I have no hope that he'll make any significant difference.
If the got rid of the RINO's and publicly declared the center is the Constitution it would be one thing. What they do as the yippy yappy lap dogs of the left is .....revolting. Too many lies too much giving in until Republican In Name Only maybe more true than we would hope but it also means Republic In Name Only. Methinks thou must try harder to support what are straight up left wing socialists with a fascist mindset. Fascist for the uneducated is government control of citizens by any and all means.
So? I have agreed to disagree but if you truly want to flush your vote wing! Republican or Democrat. See? They even give you a choice like Henry Ford's cars and their paint job.
Still citizens especially registered voters are the only one's with a valid geo-political interest and some schmoozer fronting for a group from the other end of the country has no valid reason to try and influence the vote in my precinct. Bingo... Soft money is banned from the vote buyers. Doesn't mean a ban on freedom of assembly. For that you have to depend on how the Government Party interprets or ignores the Constitution. Add None of The Above as an automatic candidate or choice and make sure every state has the Recall - it's a start - and a return to multi-party system of government.
One can decide when it finally comes down to the very last few. If a person is rational, they may change their premises for very good reasons upon discovering they were wrong -- or right about certain issues.
The quadrennial charade begins and another good reason to get rid of television.
I still like the idea of one, and one only, 6 year term, the winner (if not impeached out of office, whence they get to spend their days in a lovely garden spot like Leavenworth - after all, they ARE [or were] the CiC...) is then banished to an island like Vanuatu to spend out their days incommunicado in peace, luxury and isolation. Pay them well, but they then go bye bye. And the single 6 keeps people from being an electioneer for most of their first term. Heck, as long as we're rewriting the terms of office, they are prohibited (under threat of immediate impeachment from office, see above) from electioneering for their "favorite Party-ites"...
The Presidency and Cabinet - it's not a graft grabfest - it's service to your country.
If I'm looking at Sir Jeb of the entitled Royal House of Bush, I'll be voting for whoever is the libertarian or whatever independent may also be available.