Posted on 04/15/2009 4:54:36 PM PDT by Dallas
I was the one who took the risk on my house, not the government, so yes-—it’s all about me and my greed. I will not pay for someone else’s greed. That’s their look-out. So when companies fail they get absorbed by their competitors, or used to, before the government decided to delay the inevitable by voting on a bill that was so important to pass it didn’t have time to be read by anyone before getting railroaded thru Congress. That’s a deal-breaker. In a representational Republic we are supposed to be represented. Not a single elected congress-critter read the TARP bill before voting on it. It was too important to the country—total economic failue swung in the balance—to delay the vote for proper debate. Yet it took Obama 5 days more to get around to signing it.
I’m not the opposite extreme to Code Pink or Answr. I go to work every day and pay my bills. I expect responsible government. When we don’t have responsible government, or even the hope for it in the near future, it’s time to take action. Taking action includes attending Tea Parties and replying to interesting posts. It also includes preparing for the day when I may need to protect my home and hearth against free-loaders and socialist agents of the government. I’m not paying someone else’s mortage. Never.
Go Texas!!
I say sure to the reagan test, I know I would pass. I think they should also have a freerepublic posters instant approval as well. Any posts by members PRIOR to today, so people can’t read this post and start now, should be read and considered as evidence of your position :)
Lonestar,
I say she can bring her Yankee accent as long as she accepts our Texas attitudes and values.
Texas has the money to pay for these things you mention because unlike many other states, we are fiscally conservative, which has lead to a very large surplus
Texas should then be able to get rid of those giant cock roaches don’t ya think?
and....
I like America. I believe in fighting for my country. I don't have much consideration for those that would betray it, tear it apart, or abandon it; whether they come from the right or left.
When it becomes ‘all about you’ then you don't really rate the help of your neighbor, do you? In a free society we are free because we remember our responsibilities as well as our rights.
I know my rights. But I also know my responsibilities. I won't shirk them either.
Ahem*
IBM Austin (Software Group) employs several hundred of us software weenies.
But she can't bring anybody with her 'cept family!
“I think they should also have a freerepublic posters instant approval as well.”
Agree, I’ve been thinking about that for months. It would be a way of proving that you qualify, without question.
Other tests may be fake-able. You say Reagan to the guy, and he has been self-programmed to think “boy friend”, and the new country loses.
I asked if it was your opinion that McCain-Feingold in no way abridges the freedom of speech clause from the 1st amendment. You stated earlier that not a single principle has been discarded. I am merely trying to decide whether you were referring to American principles as defined by IrishCatholic or Amercan principles as defined by Madison, Jefferson and company.
But she can't bring anybody with her 'cept family!
Well, she can bring her dogs (as long as they aren't foo-foo dogs).
We're trying to have fun with it...lighten up....geeze
“What is required for Americans is to educate and inform. Anyone trying to break up this nation is a traitor and I hold him in the deepest contempt for the scum they are.”
No passport for you.
LMAO
“What’s going to be our national anthem?...Yellow Rose of Texas maybe?”
It works for me. Or we could write a new verse for the “Bonnie Blue Flag” and use it!
Discarded isn’t the same thing as infringed.
Hence, court cases like the one I referred you to.
Or did you think this is the only time in American history rights were infringed upon?
Agreed. Thank you.
Well, there is a positive side.
At least the Southern border would finally be closed.
Besides, I won’t need a passport. I’ll already be in the camps wearing my cross armband.
Don’t include my name in “The People Of Texas”. I doubt you’ll find anything more than transplant Texans that would agree with you.
Pretty bold statement for a (soon-to-be) starving pilgrim.
I consider dogs family. They can come.
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