Posted on 09/01/2012 6:37:39 PM PDT by joanie-f
My congressman introduced legislation that would require he and his colleagues to spend no less than 20 days in their districts. Naturally his colleagues decided they’re too busy spending money to do something like that.
Well, Uncle Sam does need to come closer to losing a third of the debt over a decade. Let states manage their own affairs, as they can compete for residents. It’s not possible to do that when there is only one Uncle Sam.
If I were king, I would come up with a nannydom rating — unproductive or antiproductive meddling — for every US government effort, and start cutting if not eliminating the nanniest programs first. That is hurting the ability of the people to prosper. A prosperous people would furnish more absolute revenue in taxes — the familiar Laffer curve peak.
Can’t argue with that!
Well as Mr.Eastwood said..they work for us...Maybe we should remind them.
Because our lives are becoming void of the things that make life worth living. Good carpeting, great food, and a nice car, don’t feed the soul, it doesn’t replace the sense of being a conquered tribe, a disappearing people as we watch centuries of hard earned advancement and growth, turned into looted husks, and burned out shells, all to be forgotten soon.
I would rather be living in poverty in the past when American eyes glittered with the meaning and the hope of life, with national pride, with faith in their fellow American and a spiritual awareness that we were a special people, and that it was our time in history, and that we were part of a culture that was literally marching to the stars, and that we could save the less free, the non-westernized corners of the world, not that we would be colonized, and eventually erased by them.
There are two ways in which Islam could bring America to her knees:
(1) Through the acquisition of chemical/biological/nulcear agents/weapons -- all of which can be brought across our porous borders. There is no need for strategic weaponry to deliver these mass destructive agents.
(2) Political correctness consistently prevents us from discussing the potentially devastating effects of Muslim infiltration of our society. But all we need do is take a serious look at England, France and the rest of Europe to see where our future lies. We, as Americans, have a short attention span. To radical Islam, a hundred years is the blink of an eye, as long as their goals are eventually met.
Sorry...I make all my own decisions. My mom told me to.
Amen.
Better a free poor man than a rich man in chains.
I think “Kane” is the greatest movie ever made.
People are still trying to figure out how Welles got some of the shots he did.
Agreed. I've probably seen it a dozen times.
What about skyrocketing economic growth? I’m in the sportfish market and we are projecting 30 to 50% growth year over year the next 10 years if we can just get predictability in the tax code. If the socialists knew how much income would be created by a flat tax or national sales tax they would crawl up a gnats ass to make it happen.
>>I would rather be living in poverty in the past
That’s the funny thing about “poverty” in modern America. The poor today live with more luxuries than I had as a child in a 1970’s middle class family with a blue collar dad and stay-at-home mom. Even with Jimmy Carter’s malaise, we were happy with what we had.
Not only the wealth, but the independence and security of a country, appear to be materially connected with the prosperity of manufactures. Every nation, with a view to those great objects, ought to endeavor to possess within itself all the essentials of national supply. These comprise the means of subsistence, habitation, clothing and defense.Therefore, if the economic problems are not solved, neither will the problems of defense of the country from enemies both without and within.
What is the mechanism by which you think Islam will destroy us as a people?
///
the Muslim Brotherhood, has laid this out,
in very detailed specific plans,
that were captured in law enforcement raids.
(and i’ve personally heard similar things,
INSIDE the masjid)
-
i have links (mostly from others like Bayouranger),
to this, in my profile.
-
and France alone, has about 10 million Muslims,
living at taxpayer expense, in what are virtually independent Muslim colonies.
seems like the plan is working pretty well.
Don’t say “no capability”. Especially since Iran is building their nuclear umbrella with complete impunity, and Hezbollah has been sneaking over the Mexican border with equal impunity for ages.
ABC weaponry can certain do great damage. Though deploying them effectively is not really that easy.
But your claim was not that they would hurt us, but that they would destroy us as a people. Even a dozen nukes set off in our major cities could not come close to “destroying” us, not even to the extent of defeating us militarily.
It would no doubt piss us off, and Islamists around the world would quickly discover that their major military asset has been our unwillingness to be “mean.”
In this regard, I recommend “Caliphate,” a dystopic novel by Tom Kratman, where this is essentially what has happened. It doesn’t turn out well for the ragheads.
http://www.tomkratman.com/asod.html
The single method by which they could, in theory, destroy our society is by developing a true super-plague biological weapon. But it of course would also destroy their societies.
Muslims are infiltrating our society, and many of them have evil intent. But it is also a fact that many of their young people are seduced by our society, making any inter-generational conquest problematic.
In any case, Muslims cannot conquer us unless we quite allow them to. IOW, they aren’t capable of murdering us, although we are quite capable of committing suicide.
A. Lincoln at the age of 28: “ At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/lyceum.htm
If Abe was correct, as I firmly believe, then it is foolish to waste effort obsessing about imaginary external threats. Our problems are internal, as are their solutions.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.