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"There are none so blind as those who will not see."
I'll give you a hint. No budget in almost four years. The ones offered by Obama were shot down unanimously. And that is just a taste of this administrations failure in the fiscal/economic realm.
Actually, his budget was not even brought to the floor of the boner led house for debate let alone a vote, it was filibustered just like most everything else he's done.
99-0: Senate votes down Obama’s budget unanimously — again; Update: Zero Dem votes for four GOP budgets « Hot AirAnother day, another congressional shutout of O’s latest unserious gimmick. That makes three in the past year. The Senate torpedoed his last budget 97-0 in May 2011, then the House dropped a goose egg on him in March with a robust 414-0 tally. Now this.
610-0:
Republicans forced the vote by offering the president’s plan on the Senate floor.
Democrats disputed that it was actually the president’s plan, arguing that the slim amendment didn’t actually match Mr. Obama’s budget document, which ran thousands of pages. But Republicans said they used all of the president’s numbers in the proposal, so it faithfully represented his plan.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, even challenged Democrats to point out any errors in the numbers and he would correct them — a challenge no Democrats took up…
I don't hate Liberals for thinking they can run my life better then I can. I hate them for trying to do it. All the rest of you can cay you don't hate liberals, but I hate anyone who uses guns and force to coerce me, and that's exactly what the left are doing.
I don't hate Liberals for thinking they can run my life better then I can. I hate them for trying to do it. All the rest of you can cay you don't hate liberals, but I hate anyone who uses guns and force to coerce me, and that's exactly what the left are doing.
Come on Kaz, the Republicans are no better in this regard. God forbid your a pregnant women or a gay then they are much worse.
I don't hate Liberals for thinking they can run my life better then I can. I hate them for trying to do it. All the rest of you can cay you don't hate liberals, but I hate anyone who uses guns and force to coerce me, and that's exactly what the left are doing.
Come on Kaz, the Republicans are no better in this regard. God forbid your a pregnant women or a gay then they are much worse.
I didn't make your point. I'm not aware of the incident you were referring too and was asking you for some more information. It had nothing to do with not being "instructed" by anyone. Since I still don't know what issue you're talking about, I can't be "defensive towards my collective", now can I. Nor can I speak out against something I'm not aware of, so the "silence" is obviously true (to a point).Typo fixed.
Thank you for making my point
Now, if you told me WTF you were talking about, I might be able to speak out then. I'm not going to comment on something I know nothing about.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember you are (or were) a cop. And that's pretty hard to believe, seeing how flawed your logic is. My experience with cops has shown me they're pretty good analytical thinkers. You, on the other hand, are like:
You don't seem to have the chops for the job.
- an NBA player 5' tall
- a marriage counsular who's never had a date
- a CPA who's declared bankruptcy
I don't hate Liberals for thinking they can run my life better then I can. I hate them for trying to do it. All the rest of you can cay you don't hate liberals, but I hate anyone who uses guns and force to coerce me, and that's exactly what the left are doing.
Come on Kaz, the Republicans are no better in this regard. God forbid your a pregnant women or a gay or a Muslim then they are much worse. I get it what you mean to say is you want people to not tell you what to do unless they are different from you in some way then it is perfectly okay for the government to dictate to them
It has nothing to do with trust. Businesses are going to maximize profits as they are suppose to do. They are regulated by supply and demand "if" their is a well functioning market. But those markets don't always occur because they have some built in assumptions:
1) It assumes that people can or will walk away as the price rises
2) it assumes people have information about what they are buying
3) and it assumes a linkage between cost and benefit
Almost all of these things are missing in health care. The most important being an unwillingness to let people drop out of the market. That means companies will do what they do when you have a nearly vertical demand line and maximize profits. That is why our per capita health care costs are 1.8 times the next closest country.
This is not political theory and whether I trust or don't trust companies. It is straight economics. Nor do I believe in limited choice which would be a single provider. Read what I wrote, a single payer yes but not a single provider.
I wonder if you realize that what hinders a "well functioning market" the most is government regulaton?
I believe there must be some regulation, but unfortunately our "leaders" (regardless of party) have decided that as much regulation as they can get away with is best. It is all about control and those so called leaders are out for control.
Immie
There is no 'well functioning market' without regulations. Just as there is no 'society' without laws.
Do you understand why our economy crashed and burned in 2008 Immie?
True, particularly given the fact liberals arent trying to run anyones life
I don't hate Liberals for thinking they can run my life better then I can. I hate them for trying to do it. All the rest of you can cay you don't hate liberals, but I hate anyone who uses guns and force to coerce me, and that's exactly what the left are doing.
Come on Kaz, the Republicans are no better in this regard. God forbid your a pregnant women or a gay then they are much worse.
Actually from a philosophical point, you could argue the oppression of social conservatives are worse then liberals because while liberals want to own your wallet, social conservatives want to own your body.
However, first, as the tea party has once again shown, social conservatives are not the Republican party, they are a sect of it. Fiscal conservatism woke and re-energized the party, not abortion.
And second, morality laws are harder to implement, easier to ignore and easier to overturn. The affect of liberals eliminating economic freedom has a far, far greater impact on our actual liberty.
I'm not a philosophical libertarian, I'm a pragmatic one. I support that policy which maximizes liberty.
A coke habit doesn't give you partial credit for that last one?"an NBA player 5' tall
a marriage counsular who's never had a date
a CPA who's declared bankruptcy
You don't seem to have the chops for the job."
How about adding:
A president who has never had a real job
or
A president who has never been the leader of anything
or
A president who has never run a snowball stand, let alone a business
I criticize him too, just like I did with the last President. But when some people deliberately make things up, just to criticize him about, that's a red flag for something else going on.I have the utmost respect for the Office of the Presidency but that does not prevent me from criticizing the man that occupies that Office.
The only thing it says about my opinion, is that I don't have one on things I know nothing about. But since some of you don't even have the balls (or the common courtesy) to answer a direct question, I Googled 'Brian' a few minutes ago and am now aware of the issue you were referring to. And I still don't have much of an opinion, since I haven't really researched it in depth.I'm not a cop. Never was, never claimed to be.
You have no idea who Brian Terry is? You have no idea that AG Eric Holder is stonewalling an investigation into the Administration role in arming the most violent criminals on the planet, the very people who murdered Terry, with the weapons provided by Obama and Holder. That speaks volumes about your opinion, doesn't it?
Thats pretty much true except now it is the Democrats that represent the most wealthy and they use government regs, racism, political cronyism and organized crime to keep the Middle Class down, parasitically feeding off its ability to produce wealth.
Of course, and I have no problem with most of that, but Nixon pushed it beyond LBJs intent and I suspect it was a Nixonian ploy to spoil the very thought of such programs in the minds of most Americans.
What JFK said and believed is presented here:
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
That kind of talking would get you banned from the Democratic Party and a rent-a-mob outside your office courtesy of Soros and his hired guns in a heart beat. Soros owns the Democratic Party and JFK would not have shared it with him for a second.
Thats what I thought; you just be trollin.
Government take over of businesses and shafting their shareholders, and taking over entire industries is socialism. It isnt the most extreme form of socialism but it is socialism and extreme for the American public's tastes.
Bullshit. They did not ban assault weapons at all. They banned scarey looking weapons that made them wet their panties.
Marketism = social Darwinism = fascism = communism?
Dude, find your meds, please.
That was true then and some of it is true now.
Today though it is the Dems that promise racial equality while meaning all races are equally poor and enslaved to the government.
The Dems say that they want to grow jobs and build industry but just cant seem to find the time as they grow government and build a monolythic state.
The Dems say they are for democracy but only as long as they can steal votes and engage in other kinds of fraud and to stop them is racist.
The Dems say that they are for freedom then jail people for thought crimes and cannot find anything wrong with Chavez.
The Republicans are scarey, true, but the Democrats are worse than the Black Plague.
You have built quite a straw man, but it is not based on liberal beliefs or intent. It is built on right wing projection and yes, POLARIZED thinking. It exposes the core of conservatism...FEAR, paranoia and insecurity.
I have to laugh at your attempt to define JFK's beliefs using out of context sentences. I have read or listened to almost every one of the speeches those sentences were taken from. And I know the context and message of those speeches. You really need to educate yourself before you try to discuss who Jack Kennedy was or wasn't with me.
"I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose"
Let's add context to one of those sentences, because it is one of my favorite JFK speeches and it revealed to me why Jack Kennedy was not just a man of his time, but a man for all time. If you know Jack Kennedy's life story, you would know that much of his wisdom came from also being "one acquainted with the night."
Remarks at Amherst College, October 26, 1963 - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
"Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility. And I think, as your president said, that it must be a source of satisfaction to you that this school's graduates have recognized it. I hope that the students who are here now will also recognize it in the future. Although Amherst has been in the forefront of extending aid to needy and talented students, private colleges, taken as a whole, draw 50 percent of their students from the wealthiest 10 percent of our Nation. And even State universities and other public institutions derive 25 percent of their students from this group. In March 1962, persons of 18 years or older who had not completed high school made up 46 percent of the total labor force, and such persons comprised 64 percent of those who were unemployed. And in 1958, the lowest fifth of the families in the United States had 4 1/2 percent of the total personal income, the highest fifth, 44 1/2 percent. There is inherited wealth in this country and also inherited poverty. And unless the graduates of this college and other colleges like it who are given a running start in life--unless they are willing to put back into our society, those talents, the broad sympathy, the understanding, the compassion--unless they are willing to put those qualities back into the service of the Great Republic, then obviously the presuppositions upon which our democracy are based are bound to be fallible.
The problems which this country now faces are staggering, both at home and abroad. We need the service, in the great sense, of every educated man or woman to find 10 million jobs in the next 2 1/2 years, to govern our relations--a country which lived in isolation for 150 years, and is now suddenly the leader of the free world--to govern our relations with over 100 countries, to govern those relations with success so that the balance of power remains strong on the side of freedom, to make it possible for Americans of all different races and creeds to live together in harmony, to make it possible for a world to exist in diversity and freedom. All this requires the best of all of us.
Therefore, I am proud to come to this college, whose graduates have recognized this obligation and to say to those who are now here that the need is endless, and I am confident that you will respond.
Robert Frost said:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
I hope that road will not be the less traveled by, and I hope your commitment to the Great Republic's interest in the years to come will be worthy of your long inheritance since your beginning.
This day devoted to the memory of Robert Frost offers an opportunity for reflection which is prized by politicians as well as by others, and even by poets, for Robert Frost was one of the granite figures of our time in America. He was supremely two things: an artist and an American. A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.
In America, our heroes have customarily run to men of large accomplishments. But today this college and country honors a man whose contribution was not to our size but to our spirit, not to our political beliefs but to our insight, not to our self-esteem, but to our self- comprehension. In honoring Robert Frost, we therefore can pay honor to the deepest sources of our national strength. That strength takes many forms, and the most obvious forms are not always the most significant. The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.
Our national strength matters, but the spirit which informs and controls our strength matters just as much. This was the special significance of Robert Frost. He brought an unsparing instinct for reality to bear on the platitudes and pieties of society. His sense of the human tragedy fortified him against self-deception and easy consolation. "I have been" he wrote, "one acquainted with the night." And because he knew the midnight as well as the high noon, because he understood the ordeal as well as the triumph of the human spirit, he gave his age strength with which to overcome despair. At bottom, he held a deep faith in the spirit of man, and it is hardly an accident that Robert Frost coupled poetry and power, for he saw poetry as the means of saving power from itself. When power leads men towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truth which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment.
The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state. The great artist is thus a solitary figure. He has, as Frost said, a lover's quarrel with the world. In pursuing his perceptions of reality, he must often sail against the currents of his time. This is not a popular role. If Robert Frost was much honored in his lifetime, it was because a good many preferred to ignore his darker truths. Yet in retrospect, we see how the artist's fidelity has strengthened the fibre of our national life.
If sometimes our great artist have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must motivate any true artist, makes him aware that our Nation falls short of its highest potential. I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. And as Mr. MacLeish once remarked of poets, there is nothing worse for our trade than to be in style. In free society art is not a weapon and it does not belong to the spheres of polemic and ideology. Artists are not engineers of the soul. It may be different elsewhere. But democratic society--in it, the highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation. And the nation which disdains the mission of art invites the fate of Robert Frost's hired man, the fate of having "nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope."
I look forward to a great future for America, a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past, and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.
I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to an America which will steadily raise the standards of artistic accomplishment and which will steadily enlarge cultural opportunities for all of our citizens. And I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world not only for its strength but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world which will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction.
Robert Frost was often skeptical about projects for human improvement, yet I do not think he would disdain this hope. As he wrote during the uncertain days of the Second War:
Take human nature altogether since time
began . . .
And it must be a little more in favor of
man,
Say a fraction of one percent at the very
least . . .
Our hold on this planet wouldn't have so
increased."
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The President and the Poet - John F. Kennedy at Amherst, October 26, 1963
Nothing in that speech contradicts what I have stated, and no, the Dems would not let JFK remain in the party even if he still would want to. Most populist Democrats left the party after McGovern's leftwing fascists took over the party and turned it over to the neoMarxist left. They turned everyday Americans into the villains of all our problems, and promoted government policies that have driven the Middle Class into decline. Why? Because the leaders of the Democratic Party are some of the richest multi-billionares in the world from Soros to Bill Gates to Warren Buffet.
The GOP is the party of the middle class now, and all your bullshit doesnt change that one iota.
