TheOldGeezer

TheOldGeezer

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12 years ago @ Big Government - If Sarah Palin Is a Ki... · 1 reply · +3 points

No way.. .I c an't afford it.

12 years ago @ Big Government - A Post-Obama Vision in... · 1 reply · +16 points

Sigh. "reforming" entitlements means not getting rid of them. As long as they exist, they will grow out of control ,and liberals will aways have the chance to create more and do more, since there's no actual obstruction to doing so. "cutting by 40%) is just another way of saying " we like them, just not this much".

It's just "democrat and liberal lite" which is no vision at all.

12 years ago @ Big Government - A Post-Obama Vision in... · 3 replies · +10 points

This is indistinguishable from Obama. It amount to nothing other than managing the liberal big government a little better, to make it more palatable. That's not a "vision", it's a surrender. "Vision" would be to say "We've progressed down this road for long enough to see where it has lead us. It is time to CHANGE ROADS, not just back up slightly.

It's time to say "no more federal entitlements, no more violating the plain word of the Contitution (and get back to demanding we actually follow it), and end the federal government's violation of the state's soveriegnity and intereference in people's lives. It means having an actual vision of something that's different, not just "more palatable".

12 years ago @ Big Government - Obama Requests $1 Bill... · 0 replies · +14 points

"If I spend this money now, on a program we haven't invented yet, it'll save 47 times that in the future"

Hogwash. This is more phony than a pyramid scheme's sales pitch.

12 years ago @ Big Government - A Call For Unity at CP... · 0 replies · +2 points

Having said all that, I'll have to v ote for whomever is not Obama. And the TEA Party needs to wholly take over the GOP and send the political insiders and all those not wholly loyal to the Constitution packing. If that's not going to happen, we're doomed.

12 years ago @ Big Government - A Call For Unity at CP... · 1 reply · +3 points

Imagine a partner in a business who chooses to allow the other partner to run the business into the ground. If you wait long enough, there won't be anything to pick up and start over. Eventually, when the bankruptcy papers are filed, there's no redeeming it. Eventually, after we've waited long enough, the public and new genreations will simply refuse to beleive history, believe truth of things like economics and civilization. We'll have surrendered what the generations before us built, in some misguided notion that the worse it gets, the more the great unwashed will simply turn to us and what we think. Well, that's not true. It won't matter HOW wrong they are, if they don't see truth in action, it won't matter, becuase they'll never recognize it, and we won't be a majority big enough to put the country back on track. Yeah, I don't like Romney, No, I'm no fan anymore of Gingrich, Santorum can't get traction. And none of them seem even faintly dedicated to what we MUST do, that being restore FULLY, the Constitution and it's limits that the federal government long ago violated.

12 years ago @ Big Government - Newt Gingrich to Juan ... · 4 replies · +2 points

Why? What is a "jobs program" about using money spent on union scale janitors to teach kids the value of money and a work ethic? I actually attended, for 3 years, a school that did precisely that. For most, it was the first job they ever had that earned them a dime. There were teacher's assistants, janitors, groundskeepers, maintenance crew, etc, at high school age. It was the best part of the whole education, in my book.

12 years ago @ Big Government - Memo to Republicans: W... · 0 replies · +1 points

Why should the federal govenrment have ANYTHING to do with our personal health care? It should untangle itself from the whole system and just leave us and our states to deal with things.

We DO NOT NEED FEDERAL INTERVENTION, other than to assure us that interstate commerce won't be obstructed. You want my plan, it's this: END all federal regulation of everything but the importation of drugs. Require the states to allow the purchase of ANY health care policy by ANYONE, in any state, from any carrier, in any state. End the tax exemption for employer paid health care. Why employers should choose our health care insurance is beyond me. I NEED TO PICK IT, not them. Then let the states be a demonstration of what is wise and what is stupid, and let people vote with their feet.

12 years ago @ Big Government - Memo to Republicans: W... · 0 replies · +2 points

LOL, you just demonstrated you are utterly and completely incompetent at even simple things like taking care of your health care expenses. Why don't you educate yourself, instead of demanding the government make life idiot proof, so we all have to live like idiots?

12 years ago @ Big Government - Memo to Republicans: W... · 2 replies · +7 points

If you're stupid enough to keep buying a ripoff insurance, it's not my fault, nor is it the government's fault, it's YOUR fault. Buy sane insurance instead.