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Somebody watches Glenn Beck. Good post.
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My beliefs exactly, except for #4. I think open unchecked borders would amount to illegal labor unfairly undercutting citizens who need more income than what the Mexicans are willing to work for.no,1 a balanced budget is a pipe dream, 2 if a tax increase is necessary(as can happen when you have troops deployed in 2 war zones) i would support said increase, i love this country and gladly pay th taxes that keep it running,3 i kind of agree with but i would emphasize a manhattan project style effort that would search for newer alternative energies so we could eventually not need oil at all.4 is an unamerican measure and we should not run scared and close the borders, we are a great nation built by immigrants.5 we are a great nation and what makes us great is the ability to admit to and learn from our mistakes.
1. I believe in a balanced budget and therefore will vote for a freeze in government spending until that goal is realized.
2. I believe government should not increase the financial burden on the citizenry during difficult economic times therefore I will oppose all tax increases until our economy has rebounded.
3. I believe more than four decades of U.S. dependence on foreign oil is a travesty therefore I will support an energy plan that calls for immediately increasing usage of all domestic resources including nuclear energy, natural gas, (of course OIL), and coal as necessary.
4. I believe in the sovereignty and security of our country and therefore will support measures to close our borders except for designated immigration points so we will know who is entering and why and I will vehemently oppose any measure giving another country, the United Nations, or any other entity (including CZARS - unapproved by Congress), power over U.S. citizens.
5. I believe the United States of America is the greatest country on earth and therefore will not apologize for policies or actions which have served to free more and feed more people around the world than any other nation on the planet.
and you've done this to know?PS I'm listening to Beck now, comments later.
What a terrible waste of time ... Falling naked into a nettle patch is more fun ...
i agree with most1. I believe in a balanced budget and therefore will vote for a freeze in government spending until that goal is realized.
2. I believe government should not increase the financial burden on the citizenry during difficult economic times therefore I will oppose all tax increases until our economy has rebounded.
3. I believe more than four decades of U.S. dependence on foreign oil is a travesty therefore I will support an energy plan that calls for immediately increasing usage of all domestic resources including nuclear energy, natural gas, (of course OIL), and coal as necessary.
4. I believe in the sovereignty and security of our country and therefore will support measures to close our borders except for designated immigration points so we will know who is entering and why and I will vehemently oppose any measure giving another country, the United Nations, or any other entity (including CZARS - unapproved by Congress), power over U.S. citizens.
5. I believe the United States of America is the greatest country on earth and therefore will not apologize for policies or actions which have served to free more and feed more people around the world than any other nation on the planet.
1. I believe in a balanced budget and therefore will vote for a freeze in government spending until that goal is realized.
2. I believe government should not increase the financial burden on the citizenry during difficult economic times therefore I will oppose all tax increases until our economy has rebounded.
3. I believe more than four decades of U.S. dependence on foreign oil is a travesty therefore I will support an energy plan that calls for immediately increasing usage of all domestic resources including nuclear energy, natural gas, (of course OIL), and coal as necessary.
4. I believe in the sovereignty and security of our country and therefore will support measures to close our borders except for designated immigration points so we will know who is entering and why and I will vehemently oppose any measure giving another country, the United Nations, or any other entity (including CZARS - unapproved by Congress), power over U.S. citizens.
5. I believe the United States of America is the greatest country on earth and therefore will not apologize for policies or actions which have served to free more and feed more people around the world than any other nation on the planet.
No one who lives in the real world lives in a world of belief, except ideologues, for the pragmatic and reasonable, life is about what works particularly in politics and the the economy.
The credo of the anarchist.
The credo of a realist.
"The peculiar internal tension of liberal constitutions is that they constrain power even as they authorize it—that is, they attempt to curb the despotic power and ambitions of individual rulers and officials and, by doing so, to permit stronger systemic capacities." Paul Starr in Freedom's Power
I voted "some" due to the "Closed Border" element...
The US has had open borders since its inception...
Those OPEN borders were NEVER a problem until the US embraced Leftism and the Social Entitlements mind set...
Much as an 'open bar' invitees party crashers... the big-spender policies of the Left which seek to pay for every NEED of every possible problem that anyone who shows up might present, is responsible for the PROBLEM of SUPPORTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS...
I for one don't have a problem with immigrants who cross the border and intend to sustain themselves through their own means to do so.
That's how my progenitors did it... No one gave them a DAMN THING! If they got sick... they freakin' suffered... and so far, most have died. That's life...
America as a principle doesn't promise you a DAMN THING, except the right to pursue your dreams...
Want to stop the flow of illegal immigrants looking for a free ride? STOP THE FREE RIDES...
Again... it's not a complex issue... it only becomes complex when one tries to introduce invalid reasoning... and DEMANDS that such is otherwise.
The credo of the anarchist.
The credo of a realist.
"The peculiar internal tension of liberal constitutions is that they constrain power even as they authorize itthat is, they attempt to curb the despotic power and ambitions of individual rulers and officials and, by doing so, to permit stronger systemic capacities." Paul Starr in Freedom's Power
Well, yes... "liberal" as in that which is established upon the shifting sands of moral relativism; a species of reasoning common to secular humanism: AKA: Realism... OKA: LEFT-THINK... I.e.: A species of reasoning hostile to the concept known as America: Anti-Americanism.
The US Constitution does not fall into this category.
The US Constitution rests upon the framework of immutable principles which were established as such, in the US Declaration of Independence. And while the "liberal" rationalizations have undermined the recognition of those principles over the years... and thus have undermine the viability of such...
Americans are no way asking for 'stronger systematic capacities...' However, those adhering to the principle-less notions of the Ideological LEFT are; and have since their infestation of the US culture in the mid to late 19th Century, are not ust asking for such, they're DEMANDING such... and therein, lies the basis for the looming civil war, which will inevitably result in United States returning to her American foundation.
Again... there's nothing particular complex about this; it only becomes so when those who adhere to anti-American reasoning; that which is hostile to the very CONCEPT of America, try to wedge that foreign reasoning into the intrinsic domestic concept and then reject their responsibility for having pushed the nation off its constitutional moorings...
The credo of a realist.
"The peculiar internal tension of liberal constitutions is that they constrain power even as they authorize itthat is, they attempt to curb the despotic power and ambitions of individual rulers and officials and, by doing so, to permit stronger systemic capacities." Paul Starr in Freedom's Power
Well, yes... "liberal" as in that which is established upon the shifting sands of moral relativism; a species of reasoning common to secular humanism: AKA: Realism... OKA: LEFT-THINK... I.e.: A species of reasoning hostile to the concept known as America: Anti-Americanism.
The US Constitution does not fall into this category.
The US Constitution rests upon the framework of immutable principles which were established as such, in the US Declaration of Independence. And while the "liberal" rationalizations have undermined the recognition of those principles over the years... and thus have undermine the viability of such...
Americans are no way asking for 'stronger systematic capacities...' However, those adhering to the principle-less notions of the Ideological LEFT are; and have since their infestation of the US culture in the mid to late 19th Century, are not ust asking for such, they're DEMANDING such... and therein, lies the basis for the looming civil war, which will inevitably result in United States returning to her American foundation.
Again... there's nothing particular complex about this; it only becomes so when those who adhere to anti-American reasoning; that which is hostile to the very CONCEPT of America, try to wedge that foreign reasoning into the intrinsic domestic concept and then reject their responsibility for having pushed the nation off its constitutional moorings...
Oh yawn...another boring diatribe to impress us. Frankly, I think you plagiarize most of what you post, but I'm not even interested in checking that out.
1. I believe in a balanced budget and therefore will vote for a freeze in government spending until that goal is realized.
2. I believe government should not increase the financial burden on the citizenry during difficult economic times therefore I will oppose all tax increases until our economy has rebounded.
3. I believe more than four decades of U.S. dependence on foreign oil is a travesty therefore I will support an energy plan that calls for immediately increasing usage of all domestic resources including nuclear energy, natural gas, (of course OIL), and coal as necessary.
4. I believe in the sovereignty and security of our country and therefore will support measures to close our borders except for designated immigration points so we will know who is entering and why and I will vehemently oppose any measure giving another country, the United Nations, or any other entity (including CZARS - unapproved by Congress), power over U.S. citizens.
5. I believe the United States of America is the greatest country on earth and therefore will not apologize for policies or actions which have served to free more and feed more people around the world than any other nation on the planet.
No one who lives in the real world lives in a world of belief, except ideologues, for the pragmatic and reasonable, life is about what works particularly in politics and the the economy.
The credo of the anarchist.
Not by any stretch.
Midcant is nearly as big a practitioner of situational ethics and moral relativism as are you.
And Libertarians aren't anarchists. Thery're staunch supporters of a set of rules known as "the Constitution".
Pretty weak attempt.
The credo of a realist.
"The peculiar internal tension of liberal constitutions is that they constrain power even as they authorize itthat is, they attempt to curb the despotic power and ambitions of individual rulers and officials and, by doing so, to permit stronger systemic capacities." Paul Starr in Freedom's Power
Well, yes... "liberal" as in that which is established upon the shifting sands of moral relativism; a species of reasoning common to secular humanism: AKA: Realism... OKA: LEFT-THINK... I.e.: A species of reasoning hostile to the concept known as America: Anti-Americanism.
The US Constitution does not fall into this category.
The US Constitution rests upon the framework of immutable principles which were established as such, in the US Declaration of Independence. And while the "liberal" rationalizations have undermined the recognition of those principles over the years... and thus have undermine the viability of such...
Americans are no way asking for 'stronger systematic capacities...' However, those adhering to the principle-less notions of the Ideological LEFT are; and have since their infestation of the US culture in the mid to late 19th Century, are not ust asking for such, they're DEMANDING such... and therein, lies the basis for the looming civil war, which will inevitably result in United States returning to her American foundation.
Again... there's nothing particular complex about this; it only becomes so when those who adhere to anti-American reasoning; that which is hostile to the very CONCEPT of America, try to wedge that foreign reasoning into the intrinsic domestic concept and then reject their responsibility for having pushed the nation off its constitutional moorings...
Oh yawn...another boring diatribe to impress us. Frankly, I think you plagiarize most of what you post, but I'm not even interested in checking that out.
1. I believe in a balanced budget and therefore will vote for a freeze in government spending until that goal is realized.
2. I believe government should not increase the financial burden on the citizenry during difficult economic times therefore I will oppose all tax increases until our economy has rebounded.
3. I believe more than four decades of U.S. dependence on foreign oil is a travesty therefore I will support an energy plan that calls for immediately increasing usage of all domestic resources including nuclear energy, natural gas, (of course OIL), and coal as necessary.
4. I believe in the sovereignty and security of our country and therefore will support measures to close our borders except for designated immigration points so we will know who is entering and why and I will vehemently oppose any measure giving another country, the United Nations, or any other entity (including CZARS - unapproved by Congress), power over U.S. citizens.
5. I believe the United States of America is the greatest country on earth and therefore will not apologize for policies or actions which have served to free more and feed more people around the world than any other nation on the planet.
He takes up all the room in your melon.Is this from Becks show? It really really sounds like him. I can almost see him crying now..oh and saying..."get off my phone"..
(sigh) It is called pragmatism, the credo of the Progressives.
You keep telling yourself that. Thanks!!! I haven't laughed that hard in years!!!