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America's Fall From the Stars
Townhall.com ^ | August 18, 2014 | John Nantz

Posted on 08/18/2014 7:18:47 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 08/18/2014 7:18:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Just saying...

Bring back jobs to America.


2 posted on 08/18/2014 7:19:59 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: Kaslin

“Progressives assert that man is essentially good”

This naïve assertion by liberals has gotten millions killed.


3 posted on 08/18/2014 7:22:12 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: Cringing Negativism Network; Kaslin; Toddsterpatriot

1. Cringing Negativism Network do you support free markets and free people?

2. Cringing Negativism Network do you support Right-to-Work movements in the United States?

3. Cringing Negativism Network would you support reducing taxes on capital gains, labor and corporations?

4. Cringing Negativism Network would you support reducing regulations on capital, labor and corporations to the levels of say Eisenhower’s Administration?

5. Cringing Negativism Network which President was better for America: Calvin Coolidge or Franklin D. Roosevelt? How about Jimmy Carter versus Ronald Reagan?


4 posted on 08/18/2014 7:30:23 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Kaslin
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as 'bad luck'.”
- Robert Heinlein

5 posted on 08/18/2014 7:34:02 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: 1010RD

We clearly are on opposite sides of American jobs. You want to buy everything imported, mostly from China.

I seem to (currently) be in something of a minority. However America, and to an extent Free Republic, represent free speech and free ideas.

You have now complained several times to the moderator, to which I have not risen.

Yet you continue.

I will state my position one more time, very clearly. Just once, please pay attention:

Hire Americans.


6 posted on 08/18/2014 7:37:57 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: headstamp 2

“Progressives assert that man is essentially good”

Right. When one of these clowns spews this I always like to ask: ‘Do you have a lock on your door at home?’

They say: ‘Yes’....

‘Case closed’!


7 posted on 08/18/2014 7:40:03 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Kaslin

We didn't fall, we were pushed!


8 posted on 08/18/2014 7:49:37 AM PDT by caligatrux (...some animals are more equal than others.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Stop evading the questions. These are simple for any real FReeper to answer. Just answer with single words. No more dodging.

1. Cringing Negativism Network do you support free markets and free people?

2. Cringing Negativism Network do you support Right-to-Work movements in the United States?

3. Cringing Negativism Network would you support reducing taxes on capital gains, labor and corporations?

4. Cringing Negativism Network would you support reducing regulations on capital, labor and corporations to the levels of say Eisenhower’s Administration?

5. Cringing Negativism Network which President was better for America: Calvin Coolidge or Franklin D. Roosevelt? How about Jimmy Carter versus Ronald Reagan?


9 posted on 08/18/2014 7:54:23 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Paine in the Neck

bkmk


10 posted on 08/18/2014 7:55:51 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (SOUL BROTHER! This house is not armed! (Signs people thought would protect them in the 1960s))
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To: 1010RD

Ok fair enough.

Do I support free markets and free people?

I support free people. 100%. I support free markets, to the extent those are reasonably possibly, to the extent that other countries reciprocate.

To the extent other countries do not reciprocate, I most definately do NOT support free markets, when we are competing against countries (such as China) which do not open their own markets to us in return.

China currently has the entire concept of “free” turned completely on its head.

As things stand now, I believe it is time to return businesses to America.

Now.

The other questions, I have no opinion on, so you’ll have to go without.

However I answered the first and biggest question. Stop selling out everything good about America, to a country which supports none of the qualities which make America a great nation.

Bring back jobs to America.


11 posted on 08/18/2014 8:01:37 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: SMARTY

Excellent retort!


12 posted on 08/18/2014 8:13:58 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

It’s incredible that you have no opinion on fundamental economic, political and conservative thought. I suspect that it is because you’re a Dem operative on deep cover here at FR. Do a little research and answer the questions below. You dodged, again.

Is the Right to Work good for America?

Are lower taxes good for America?

Is less regulation good for America?

These are basic questions and separate conservatives from progressives. Which are you?


13 posted on 08/18/2014 8:16:21 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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Did You Know?

The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?

Now That You Do, Donate And Keep FR Running


14 posted on 08/18/2014 8:16:50 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Kaslin

At the same time we have RINOs suing SpaceX for trivial matters to protect the public space programs in their home states.


15 posted on 08/18/2014 8:19:08 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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When POTUS’s vision for the nation is to demolish all that the nation is, to tear down a nations culture and pride, the consequences are a demoralized society unable to stand up for what is right at home or abroad. This man, Obama, is systematically ruining a thing of beauty - the USA.


16 posted on 08/18/2014 8:40:22 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
As things stand now, I believe it is time to return businesses to America.

Now.

May I ask respectfully: how do you propose that 'we' (as a nation) do this?

The conservative way is reduce taxes and regulations, and encourage states to pass 'right to work' laws that limit the power of unions to leech off the fruits of productive labor and capital.

The leftist way is to prop up the unions, give special treatment to favored industries and employers, and to mouth demagoguery (sp?) about 'economic patriotism'.

Which side are you on?

17 posted on 08/18/2014 9:11:14 AM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

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18 posted on 08/18/2014 10:29:27 AM PDT by Lexinom
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To: 1010RD; Cringing Negativism Network
People that take an America-first posture, that call out what purports to be a "free market" as the sloped playfield that it is, that remember reading in history of an America that was able to manufacture its own boots, its own artillery, its own aircraft, its own supplies to free Europe from a maniacal tyrant and to topple a delusional empire in Japan - such Americans are Democrat operatives?

Really?

19 posted on 08/18/2014 10:35:09 AM PDT by Lexinom
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5. Cringing Negativism Network which President was better for America: Calvin Coolidge or Franklin D. Roosevelt? How about Jimmy Carter versus Ronald Reagan?

The other questions, I have no opinion on, so you’ll have to go without.

You've been on FR for over 9 years but you have no opinion on whether Reagan was a better President than Carter?

Even Obama isn't dumb enough to believe that. LOL!

20 posted on 08/18/2014 12:05:50 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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