Also the last plane crash was with a crew of 9 and 2 survived.
This pompous ass has worked for the government and then he became a schoolteacher. He's never met a payroll and he's never taken a risk. He had a fat 401K until the stock market sunk and he blames it all on Bush.
This is what I replied and it is pretty lame but I'm to infuriated to answer. BTW, I do not send him politicl stuff in emails.
I won't go into that much detail but I will say that you have a faulty concept of what has happened and how. This is from someone who is still a registered Democrat and has only voted for one Democrat in national politics and has followed economic and political news rabidly since she was 18. I won't argue with you because I will concede that you can argue much better than I but I think I trump you in real life experience and intelligence.
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I feel your pain. (Sorry for the terminology.)
Many of my friends are teachers with fat pensions and summers off who begrudge pensions and disability to the deserving (generally vets) while paying thier union dues and taking posh vacations.
In fact, some priests have refused John Kerry communion because he is pro-choice.
Your brother's an hypocrite, and he spells it our right here in this sentence. If our country is based on a seperation of church and state than who the hell is he to tell a priest or the pope how they should conduct their religious affairs?
Am I in bizzaro world? What planet is he from? The vast majority of "nanny" type bills (smoking laws, cell phone laws, regulations, etc.) are introduced by Democrats.
Kindly tell your brother that most ignorant opinions begin with apathy.
Hey, Tiki. Don't get mad...don't stoop to their level.
But, definately start sending this "teacher" some information to educate him! He should be a lifelong learner, and welcome the information.
First off, he must know the truth about the national budget! clinton did nothing to balance the budget. It was balanced, because for the first time in 40 years the House was ran by REPUBLICANS! Republicans who made a written "contract with America" to balance the budget! It was that same house who brought forward the welfare reform bill, and which got millions of freeloaders off the government dole!
It was also the time of the internet boom. Lots of money was being made. All economists predicted that the stock market would fall....that the internet "boom" was really an inflated "bubble"---bound to pop!
Bush inherited an economy suffering from that "pop!" and then from a direct terror attack to our financial district. The terror attacks of 9-11-01 could have caused a major collapse of our economy. But, through the efforts of President Bush (Republican) and his leadership, this did not happen. Taxes are lower, interest rates are lower than they have been in 50 years. The economy is in an upswing. Factories are operating at a 20 year high. The stock markets have been climbing, the DJIA is just a few hundred points away from a record high. New jobs are being created. And really, most of us do not have to live our lives any differently than we did before the attacks.
I am not sure that Click-It Or Ticket laws are solely the province of Republicans. Neither are DWI laws (does he really want people driving drunk, or high?) The War Against Tobacco is almost entirely an invention of the Left.
The writer talks about fiscal conservatism and deficits. Deficits are a problem, but it is a spending problem. We do not have a fiscal crisis; we have a spending crisis, at all levels of government. Will the Democrats actually cut spending, or are they only interested in rolling back tax cuts?
"Spending a small amount of money at the right time may save a lot ..."
That is what Bush's war on terrorism aims to achieve. Spend a small amount of blood and treasure now rather than spill a lot of blood later. Are the Democrats willing to invest in the future, or are they just trying to score cheap points?
Most of the money actually goes to the middle class people that hand it out. The system itself takes most of the money to run itself. But this is not necessarily bad when done appropriately. It ultimately makes for a stable middle class, which is after all, the backbone of any successful nation.
What we are talking about here is a permanent parasitic class. A class of people interested, not in the production of value, but in self-perpetuation. They may earn middle-class salaries, but will not have interests aligned with the productive middle classes. The middle class is the backbone of societies because they strive and they produce, not what is likely for the kind of people who are happy to operate the welfare systems.
If I really believed that the Democrat Party would respect individual rights, cut my taxes, run a frugal government and give us a strong military, I would vote for them. However, I do not believe that the Democrats will do any of those. I also do not believe the writer ever was a Republican (well maybe he voted for John Anderson or Jumpin' Jim Jeffords or someone of that ilk).
Where that post got too much for me was in saying that we "don't invest in people". We do. We spend huge amounts on education for children. And we know statistically that kids who get a high school diploma, don't have babies before they are 20 (and preferably not before they get married), and stay away from drugs are almost certain to have at least a middle class life style.
There's not a whole lot we can do for kids who won't work even that hard. Spending more money on them is not an "investment", it's throwing money down a rabbit hole.
Here is some more educational material for you:
History is important to remember....
Liberals claim President Bush shouldn't have started this war. They
complain about his prosecution of it. They say that too many people have died. They say that "Iraq never attacked us" and weren't a threat to us. One liberal recently claimed Bush was "the worst president in U.S. history."
Let's clear up one point: Bush didn't start the war on terror.
Try to remember, it was started by terrorists on 9/11/2001, when they attacked us, on our land.
Let's look at the "worst President" and "mismanagement" claims. Lets look at Democrats who have served as Commander in Chief of the military, and compare their decisions to those of President Bush.
Let's see....Woodrow Wilson (a Democrat) in 1917 asked congress to declare war on Germany. Germany did not attack the United States. U.S. ships were attacked abroad. The argument against war, was that Germany did not do anything that Britain had not also done. Britain had also attacked some of our ships. Some Senators said the wealthy Wilson would benefit financially from war, which was the "real reason" for him wanting to join the war. 9 out of 10 Americans who sent their sentiments to their Senators, were against war with Germany. 10,000,000 lives were lost in WWI, an average of 2,500,000 per year. 58,000 American military lives were lost in our one year of involvement.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (a Democrat) led us to fight the Germans in World War II. Germany never attacked us, Japan did. From 1941-1945, 450,000 American military lives were lost, an average of 112,500 per year. American involvement in the war was strongly protested at home, by celebrities, some Senators, priests,businessesmen and others, including famous aviator, Charles Lindbergh, who formed a group called, "America First Committee". An advertisement from the group said, "The Last War Brought: Communism to Russia, Fascism to Italy, Nazism to Germany. What Will Another War Bring To America?"
Harry S. Truman (a Democrat) finished that war by being the only person in history to order down, WMD in the form of a Nuclear bomb on innocent civilians--twice. 270,000 Japanese civilians died in the bombed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Truman (a Democrat) got us involved in Korea. North Korea never attacked us. From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost, an average of 18,333 per year.
John F. Kennedy (a Democrat) orchestrated an attempted overthrow of the Dictator of Cuba. Cuba never attacked us. They had no WMD's. The JFK administration orchestrated a military operation, using Cuban exiles, with the objective to overthrow the Castro government. Yet, when the exiles tried to invade Cuba, at the Bay of Pigs, the US did not back them up. We broke our promises. We stranded them. The JFK administration at first lied about their involvement. All of the Cuban exiles were jailed or lost their lives. Castro remained in power, and has abused his people for 40 years. 4 American pilots were killed. JFK (Democrat) involved our military in the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never attacked us. The "cold war" escalated during this administration.
Lyndon B.Johnson (a Democrat) turned Vietnam into a shameful quagmire. From 1965-1975, 3 to 4 million Vietnamese on both sides were killed, in addition to another 1.5 to 2 million Lao and Cambodians who were drawn into the war. Johnson (Democrat) never had a plan to win the war, nor a strategy for getting out. 58,235 Americans died in that war, at an average of 4,853 per year.
Jimmy Carter (Democrat) pulled us out of the Olympics, and hurt the American farmer when he halted the sale of wheat to Russia in response to the soviet invasion of Afghanistan. His brother was given $250,000 from the terrorist nation of Libya. He allowed 50 diplomats at our embassy to become hostages of terrorists in Iran. For 5 months Carter (Democrat) allowed those people to be held, while he attempted "diplomatic" and "economic" pressure to free them. This failed. His ill planned military rescue attempt ended with 3 damaged helicopters and 8 dead military troops. The hostages were held for over 14 months. When Ronald Reagan (a Republican) was elected President, the captors fearfully offered to negotiate release of the hostages. They were freed while Mr. Reagan (Republican) took his oath of office.
William J. clinton (a Democrat) went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent, Bosnia never
attacked us. The WTC was bombed On Feb. 26, 1993 killing six and injured 1,000. clinton (democrat) implemented a policy of "continued monitoring." 5 people were caught and convicted of this bombing. Other conspirators got away. clinton (Democrat) made no changes in policy to prevent additional attacks. On June 26, 1993, clinton (Democrat) attacked Iraq. He lobbed a missile into Iraq, said to retaliate against an alleged assassination attempt on Former President Bush (41). It accomplished nothing. The alleged assassination attempt was never proven in a court of law, or in the United Nations. It was based on intelligence information. The bomb killed between six and eight persons and injured approximately 12 others. The bomb site was never proven to hold any illegal WMD. In April 1995 Timothy McVeigh, detonated a bomb outside the federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. On November 13, 1995 a bomb was set off in a van parked in front of an American-run military training center in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh, killing five Americans and two Indians. On June 25, 1996, terrorists attacked the U.S. military complex and Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, killing 19 Americans and wounding hundreds more. Early indications were that the explosive used in the bombing of the Khobar Towers came out of the Becca Valley in Lebanon. A year later, however, clinton (Democrat) restored full diplomatic relations with Lebanon including lifting travel restrictions and trade restrictions. On Sept.3 1996 clinton (Democrat) again attacked Iraq with 27 cruise missles, in retaliation for the Iraqi army's assault on Kurdish areas in a United Nations "safe haven" in northern Iraq. In response to terror attacks on our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania On Aug. 7, 1998, clinton (Democrat) became the first President to PREEMPTIVELY send missiles to "suspected terror targets" in Afghanistan and the Sudan, killing many civilians, and inflaming citizens around the world. The habit of missle attacks which were not approved of by the UN, were widely condemned by most international governments. Overwhelming world reaction determined that the missile strikes would either be "ineffective" in fighting the threat of global terrorism or would have the deleterious effect of unleashing even more "extremism" and "violence" against the United States. (ref: 9-11-01) It was never proven that these targets were weapons factories as the Administration claimed. No proof of weapons were ever found. clinton (Democrat) was offered Osama bin Laden three times by Sudan and he declined. In 1993, clinton (Democrat) expanded the limited humanitarian mission in Somalia, to include rebuilding the nation. The UN "peacekeepers" embarked on a war against Somali warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed. clinton (Democrat) included our troops in this war. Aideed and the Somalis never attacked us. In October, the forces of Aideed brought down two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters, in Mogadishu and precipitated a vicious daylong firefight, wounding 77 and killing 18 Americans, whose naked, mutilated bodies were drug through the streets. This horrifying act was broadcast around the world. This, despite clinton (Democrat) sending former President Carter (Democrat) to negotiate peace talks with Aideed. Afterward, clinton declined to bring Aideed to justice, when offered his capture by frightened clan allies, instead clinton (Democrat) decided to cut and run--quit the mission in Somalia. In fact, two months later to the day, US soldiers were escorting Aideed to the Mogadishu airport by motorcade and flying him to Addis Ababa in a US Army airplane! Aideed remained in power until Aug. 1995. Clinton's retreat broadcast a signal of weakness around the world. It sent a message to our foes, that America will change her policies if terrorists kill our people. During the war with Aideed, the clinton administration sent Mohamed Aideed's son, Hussein to Somalia as a Marine Corps translator. He left the military, and remained in Somalia, becoming a warlord himself and being responsible for the deaths and displacement of 50,000 Somali's. clinton (Democrat) invaded Haiti. Haiti never attacked us. A brokered deal instigated by former President Carter (Democrat), allowed clinton (Democrat) to send in our military to place Jean-Bertrand Aristide in power, knowing full well what a despot the man was. This is one of foreign policys all-time worst liberal bungles. Today, the disastrous results of Clintons experiment in Caribbean colonialism are painfully evident. On Oct. 12, 2000, terrorists bombed the USS Cole as it sat in the Yemeni port of Aden. The bomb killed 17 U.S. sailors. American officials quickly linked the attack to bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Nothing was done.
Read more on clinton military policy here:
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jcjoyce.htm
After being in office for only 4 months, President George W. Bush, (a Republican) had to deal with an international crisis. One of our military planes were intercepted by a Chinese aircraft. The Chinese crew died. The American crew had to make an emergency landing in China, where they were "detained" for 11 days. They were all released without international incident. On 21 June 2001, just before the American statute of limitations would have expired, a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicted thirteen Saudis and an unidentified Lebanese chemist for the 1998 Khobar Towers bombing. In October 2001, four participants in the 1998 embassy bombings, were captured and convicted in U.S. federal court, and sentenced to life in prison without parole. In the two years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush (a Republican) has liberated Three countries from oppressive regimes, (Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti.) He crushed the Taliban, crippled the terrorist organization al-Qaeda and put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot! Our POW's in Iraq were successfully rescued; while Saddam Hussein, a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people, was captured! We lost 600 soldiers, an average of 30 a year. Bush (Republican) did all this abroad, while not allowing another terrorist attack at home. Our nation was given a shot right in the heart of our financial district. The terror attacks of 9-11-01 could have caused a major collapse of our economy. But, through the efforts of President Bush (Republican) and his leadership, this did not happen. Taxes are lower, interest rates are lower than they have been in 50 years. The economy is in an upswing. Factories are operating at a 20 year high. The stock markets have been climbing, the DJIA is just a few hundred points away from a record high. New jobs are being created. And really, most of us do not have to live our lives any differently than we did before the attacks.
Worst president in history? Come on; use the intelligence God gave
you.
A REPUBLICAN (Lincoln)put an end to slavery. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 would never have passed without A REPUBLICAN (Everett M. Dirksen ) and REPUBLICAN Senators who voted to end a DEMOCRATIC filibuster on the bill! A REPUBLICAN (Nixon) put an end to the Vietnam war. A REPUBLICAN (Reagan) put an end to the "Cold war", without firing a shot----
Seems like a lot of rot to me. However, my advise would be to let it go. In the end, family is what it's all about. If you damage your relationship with your brother over politics, you'll come to regret it.
His problem is clearly a moral one. The GOP USED to represent morality, but more and more we are embracing homosexuality and legalized drug use.
But, for your brother's part, that snippet shows he is in rebellion against what is right, and what has historically accepted as right.
He wants freedom without responsibility and moral constraint.
He needs to get saved.
(Judg 21:25 KJV) In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
this is BS. It is the 'RATS that are most responsible for nanny state laws.
The Stupid Party is not in the "strangehold" of the religious right. If it were, the party as a whole would be much better off.
The Stupid Party is in the stranglehold of the Lincoln Chaffees, the Log Cabin Republicans, the wide open borders crowd.
No thanks.
This, also is BS. It is written by somebody that doesn't know what the Constitution says, nor has any idea at all of the thoughts behind it.
Our age looks a bit like the 1960s before everything went bad. Things may come apart soon enough, but for the time being, we're lucky to live in a country that is so much less troubled than it was in the 1970s. It's a very unreal time, and people have forgotten what government -- especially liberal Democrat administrations -- can do to them.
So it looks as though your brother is a Democrat because a strong Republican party has taken away the bad consequences of liberalism by promoting a strong defense, keeping taxes and inflation low, putting a lid on government spending, and holding the loony left at bay. Well, I suppose that's a valid political option, but it's nothing to boast about. If his own party won in a landslide sweep -- if the real Democrats got the upper hand -- he'd certainly have enough real problems to complain about. If the country really faced a real threat from the left, Republicans would certainly be able to mobilize and counter it. It's not that the party has failed or will fail on the important things, but that in winning, it can't help but suffer some leakage or seepage to the other side.
How to counter him? Well, if he really gets upset at regulations and interference with his private life, I doubt he'll be happy with Democrats in office. So he'll learn sooner or later ...