YAA!
Posted on 06/12/2005 9:31:16 PM PDT by Libloather
I've heard that there maybe a Euro recall. Germans want the pfennig, Italians want the Lira...
I've heard that there maybe a Euro recall. Germans want the pfennig, Italians want the Lira.
The Germans have met their mark.
I'd like the dims to know that I've always found them offensive, and, it shows no sign of letting up.
True. The last complete German failure at this was 1945.
The Democratic party is dysfunctional on the national level, their leadership is lost and their only plan is to obstruct.
Bottom line, here's the deal:
Most Democrats are about as focused, stable and unemotional as a twenty-year-old hooker with a crack habit. That's an awful thing to say about another human being but in this situation it's completely accurate.
If I were advising the Democrats, I'd tell the Kennedys to call Kate Michelman, Eleanor Smeal, Kim Gandy, Patricia Ireland, David Geffen, Martin Sheen and Barbra Streisand into a hotel conference room at the Waldorf Astoria and basically shoot them...asking them to take their mentally ill supporters and money, go down the street and become Greens because that's what they are.
I saw a DNC meeting on C-SPAN over the weekend, hosted by Howard Dean, and I swear...all they wanted to talk about for an hour was the gay thing. I thought the whole meeting was gonna turn into a circle jerk. If that's what the party has become, there *is* no party because they'll never be able to penetrate enough red states to be viable again. They're out of business and should be treated as such.
Then...I'd completely realign the party, getting rid of the alternative values thing and start speaking out exclusively about middle class, Rust Belt-type issues: rebuilding our infrastructure and rebuilding our manufacturing base and permanently fixing our tax system. We have the lowest savings rate in the civilized world and it HAS to change. If that means people don't spend every waking moment at the mall, then so be it. There are other priorities.
We must truly fix public education including primary, secondary and post-secondary at all levels in all states in all regions! If a kid didn't quite measure up in math or science, we'd get him there...boot camp style, because that's what it's gonna take. I would not give him or her a choice. Take the damn X-box and hit it with a sledgehammer.
How do we pay for this? Well...maybe we need a tax increase, but not before cutting a lot of other trash that we sure as hell do NOT need. They're called priorities and making the hard choices...something we haven't done a lot of lately. That would also change.
We need a healthy dose of 1948, Truman-Kennedy style activism. There are problems to be solved and goals to be met...and our future depends upon it. I don't care and will never care about race, color or creed. I don't give a damn because it doesn't matter. There's too much else to worry about, and if we don't bind together we're all screwed anyway.
Today's Democrats sure as hell aren't going to get us there and I have my doubts about the Bush Republicans even though I voted for them.
I'm angry and I'm worried about my country. Really worried.
When the tax man takes 15% off the top, before income tax, "savings" are going to be minimal.
But convert our FICA contribution into "personal accounts" and you'd have real savings -- of a massive order.
In sum: our perennially low savings rate is an illusion, created by Social Security as we know it.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
I have always found the Democratic Party very offensive.
A Bridge To Far
That, my friend, was profound.
For a party that is morally, spiritually, ethically and intellectually bankrupt, the Rats seem to do pretty good in the polls. Even when you factor out the votes of the dead, illegal aliens and convicted felons the Rats can still do pretty good. It appears to that large segments of America still need to wake up and realize what the party they vote for represents.
As usual, the do-nothing dems are all big talk and no action.
Thanks for the ping!
Consider the following:
http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson050605.html
I'm not the only one saying these things. Far from it, in fact.
They have some warts I will admit, but they are much, much better than the alternative.
The choice is not between the republicans and perfection. The choice is between the republicans and the democrat socialist party.
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