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14 years ago @ Breitbart.tv - Perry: Romney, Paul Ha... · 0 replies · +2 points

Can any of the supporters of crazy Uncle Ron explain why he has not uttered a single criticism of Romney, either in the debates or in his advertizing, while attacking all of the others in the race. And vice-versa.
Ron Paul is no Republican. Read up on the man he admired the most, Murray Rothbard, a self described anarcho-capitalist who criticized our entry into WW2 and advocated isolationism, in fact argued that in a purely libertarian world there would be no foreign policy since there would be no States.
Ron Paul wrote of him: I loved talking to this down-to-earth genius. And he told me heenjoyed meeting a Congressman who had not only read his books, but used them as a guide in his votes and legislation. A close and lasting friendship was the result, which wasn't hard. Murray was the sweetest, funniest, most generous of men.

14 years ago @ Breitbart.tv - Female Colonel On Sant... · 0 replies · +1 points

31 years in a department that was known as one of the finest, then wholeheartedly embraced the diversity, that I believe people who see the FD arriving at an emergency, could care less about. The department I left had become a laughingstock because of lowered standards and I was fearful every day that I would be incapacitated in a fire and the only one there (that's another thing - who is there) couldn't get me out. I didn't feel that way before the lowering of standards.
Sure, they try to teach techniques to overcome the lack of strength, but the question is:
Do you, as a taxpayer, want the best and brightest to come out and do a very strenuous job, or a diverse set of responders who may, or may not, be able to get it done? You see; they are never called out for failing to do the job.

14 years ago @ Big Government - Federal Union Flips Ou... · 0 replies · +3 points

What is most interesting in the current flap over government employee pensions is the number of people who insist that these employees be put into a401k type of system and out of "defined benefit" plans while accusing W of a new "slaughter of the innocents" when he proposed something similar, albeit much smaller in scope, for SS, the most unsustainable defined benefit plan in existence.

14 years ago @ Big Government - Federal Union Flips Ou... · 0 replies · +3 points

How many writers here have ever said, when offered a raise or increase in benefits: "Oh no! That's just too much for me to be given"?
While it may seem expedient to make those, who accepted the increased pension, pay the real culprits are the politicians who offered these packages and get to walk away unscathed, in fact they are made to look good by media types who tout how they saved the taxpayers - in the current budget - by keeping employee raises low, but not mentioning the future cost associated with the deal.

14 years ago @ Big Government - Federal Union Flips Ou... · 0 replies · +1 points

Exactly!

14 years ago @ Big Government - 2012 Campaign: When Di... · 1 reply · +2 points

How often does one see a story in a newspaper, since it is newspapers who can go beyond the 10 second attention span of TV news, that doesn't look to a government solution as a result or a government failure as the cause?
Freedom of the press, given in the very first of the Bill of Rights, is an awesome power but it has been misused to promote, particularly by accepting lies from one side and attcking truth from the other, a system where government reacts to media dictates while the same media manipulate the populace into thinking it is the "right thing to do".
It is the mainstream media that has become the biggest threat to our freedom and they have an almost perfect protection granted in our Constitution. The only solution is to become more informed through the alternative media, and we now have that at our command but it will take effort.

14 years ago @ Big Government - 2012 Campaign: When Di... · 0 replies · +3 points

The press became overrun by people who think their job is to change the world into what they think is the correct way of being. In the process they realized that theirs is a great power to shape policy, since creating a crisis, even if the general populace doesn't consider it one, engenders government action.

14 years ago @ Big Government - 2012 Campaign: When Di... · 0 replies · +2 points

The biggest culprit here is the press, and all its extensions. Freedom of the press was intended to prevent the government from controlling what we, the people, are informed about. So that we can make sound decisions on how this country should be run. (Continued since I haven't figured out how to do one of those long posts some get away with)

14 years ago @ Big Government - The Santorum Surge: Tw... · 0 replies · +1 points

Hear Hear! Sparky

14 years ago @ Breitbart.tv - Female Colonel On Sant... · 6 replies · +1 points

That's a load of .....

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