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No Country for Burly Men (why stimulus not working)
Weekly Standard ^ | June 29, 2009 | Christina Hoff Summers

Posted on 06/20/2009 4:33:21 PM PDT by reaganaut1

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To: autumnraine

Is this the guy offering full bennies and good salary just for aswering phones? If so good luck - if necessary I could loan you a few bucks towards a rental car ...


41 posted on 06/20/2009 7:08:51 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: reaganaut1

Obi is sticking it to real men since they won’t let him join the club.


42 posted on 06/20/2009 7:14:51 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ( Obama, you're off the island!)
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To: al baby
Over my dead body.

That's the general plan, I think.

43 posted on 06/20/2009 7:17:53 PM PDT by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: reaganaut1

Henry Ford used to say there are only 3 ways to create real wealth in this world—grow it, mine it, or make it.

Without wealth-creating manufacturing jobs there is no money to support jobs like health care and education. That is what California is learning the hard way.

These NOW women may be gleeful now and congratulating themselves on how clever they are, but they actually quite stupid and are shooting themselves in the foot.


44 posted on 06/20/2009 7:41:32 PM PDT by blue state conservative
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To: reaganaut1
The article raises some salient points, of course. But the author is largely wrong about the following:

Within living memory, the American feminist movement was a valiant, broad-based vehicle for social equality. It achieved historic victories and enjoys continuing, richly deserved prestige for its valor and success. But it has now harnessed that prestige to the ethos and methods of a conventional interest group.

And the author particularly gets this wrong:

Recall that the Obama administration has taken extraordinary steps to insulate itself from the machinations of organized lobbyists, establishing strict limits and procedures for contacts and communications of every sort.

It was apparent to me that the above was almost all window dressing that was intended to impress the credulous, and the author's initial belief in it is evidence it succeeded. If she still believes, the more of a fool she is.

Yet its first major policy initiative was transformed by an orchestrated barrage of emails, op-eds, online petitions, open letters, faxes, phone calls, scripted handshakes, and meetings. And the administration went to great lengths to satisfy its petitioners that their proposals had been adopted directly into law.

No surprise to me, considering it wasn't white males organizing the barrage.

45 posted on 06/20/2009 7:43:14 PM PDT by Post Toasties (Conservatives allow the guilty to be executed but Lefties insist that the innocent be executed.)
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To: al baby
Once we go to socialized medicine, the population will be forced to submit to having their lives run by the federal government.

Over my dead body.

That's part of the plan if you're over 65 or will be soon.

46 posted on 06/20/2009 7:49:11 PM PDT by doc11355
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To: reaganaut1

It was not designed or supposed to work.

It was designed to debauch the currency of the United States.

Wait until 2010 and you will see that it will be working as planned. In fact, drive by your local gas station and you will get a sneak preview.


47 posted on 06/20/2009 7:49:44 PM PDT by sport
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To: Dilbert San Diego
At what point does this administration take responsibility for things that happen in reaction their policies??????

Why should Ubama take responsibility for anything, when there is no independent press in the US to hold him to account? That sick socialist scumbag can brazenly do anything he wants, including fire inspector generals who whistleblow on his corrupt political cronies.

48 posted on 06/20/2009 7:52:00 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: reaganaut1

...just makes you all want to elect a victim feminist to the presidency, eh?

[Little irony and sarcasm there.]


49 posted on 06/20/2009 7:56:12 PM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote)
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To: reaganaut1

Thanks for the post - Summers’s got the insightful thing going - it’s a WOW...


50 posted on 06/20/2009 8:05:01 PM PDT by GOPJ (Chubby people live longer - by years! Hey food police - we're putting a tax on tofu and sprouts!)
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To: reaganaut1

Might be a time to start a “bring your sons to work” day...


51 posted on 06/20/2009 8:23:12 PM PDT by GOPJ (Chubby people live longer - by years! Hey food police - we're putting a tax on tofu and sprouts!)
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To: combat_boots

Yep, me too. One of whom was a conservative and, I thought, my best friend. Surprised me, but I still won’t talk to her anymore.


52 posted on 06/20/2009 8:38:52 PM PDT by calex59
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To: reaganaut1

As Barry Obama and Barney Frank would say (in unison): Misshun accompwished!!


53 posted on 06/20/2009 9:37:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (In memory of my father, Gunnery Sgt., USMC, WWII and Korea, 1925-2002)
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