Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 198 Editor's Choice: 32
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The Secret Presidency of George Bush re: Walter
[Read the article: The Federal Reserve's "socialist" agenda]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Those empty gulags were built to house illegal immigrants in the event of another 9/11, or a collapse of the government in Mexico. The secret Presidency of George Bush refers to his meetings with the heads of Mexico and Canada, and discussion of the North American Currency, and the superhighway which bisects North America through the American heartland. Real Conservatives are incensed naturally, and Liberals are just puzzled. Recall the 2004 Democratic Congress were in agreement with the White House on immigration, Congressional Republicans blocked the bill.
Greenspan spoke often about America's labor problem and he advocated more liberal immigration laws. The Bush administrations clumsy attempts to bring manufacturing back to the US included their unofficial unstrong dollar policy, (what a joke) which would be (key one), because that would bring all three NA currencies into relative parity. Consider that McCain was far too liberal to run as a Republican in 2000. He is now very close to Bush, and Iraq is of course a red herring, designed to give Conservatives the bait and switch. (COngressional Republicans have no use for Bush)
The ethanol program is (key two) to the secret plan to destabilize Mexico. The cost of food commodities is putting pressure on that government. There is no secret that the US gets most of its oil from Canada and Mexico. A tripartite government with a single currency would solve our energy needs, and create a plan for unified border security, and increased leverage in fighting the drug cartels. Lots of reasons both parties might vote for that.
Finally the Mexican government is relaxing the rules on foreign land ownership. (key 3) Donald Trump is building condos in Tijuana. Very soon the American homebuilders will be invited to set up some American style communities. All of this begs the question what kind of government and economy will it be? Bush's deep love for the Chinese Socialist model, economic freedom, with Big Brother working behind the scenes, stamping out worker bees who don't want to work, seems like the logical choice.
Wouldn't it be nice if all Americans would just shut up, go to their miserable substandard wage jobs, and endure their penury without raising a fist? Live long enough and you might see it.
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Re-runs of the Lawrence Welk Show
[Read the article: "Shine a Light"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I always worried that our generations music would come to that. Perhaps Scorcese can save us from ourselves, but I doubt it. Thank goodness the current rock stars are so immediately forgettable. Not that it helps. A one and a two.
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It was war all the time
[Read the article: The year that changed everything]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was in boot camp that spring. I joined the Navy to avoid combat. It was a nerve racking game, trying to keep a 2-s deferment by attending Junior College. The only young men left in town, who were not students, were crazy or had criminal records. Already we were seeing the victims of the war return with missing limbs.
My friend played the deferment game as well as anyone, but after two years, and nearly flunking out, he joined the Coast Guard. Two days later his draft notice arrived.
He stayed in the Coast Guard for 30 years. I recall thinking that the war would end soon, after Johnson refused the nomination. Someone would end the war.
I just wanted to be a regular guy, with a car, a job, a girlfriend, an apartment. I knew the Gulf of Tonkin was a put up job, that was the limit of my political acumen. Two people I knew well died that year in the war. I read about it in an issue of Look magazine, which published the high school pictures of the dead for that week or month.
I put in three tours in the China Sea, while we bombed Vietnam. I was ambivalent about it, a soldier has one master. I appreciate was a colossal waste it was, (my community leaders were all too willing to send me there) and I learned something.
When Bush invaded Iraq I called my son and gave him a fair assessment of the situation.
I endeared him not to get involved, because the war would not be difficult, but the glory of that moment would quickly fade, and you will find yourself standing guard on a street corner in Baghdad.
I was against this war all the way. That Bush dropped out of the National Guard service is no surprise, Johnson put the Guard on the front lines until they could start up the selective service act. Bush was imminently in danger. No surprise the future President tried to duck out.
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Nas Miramar cont...
[Read the article: The year that changed everything]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]hey Arkans... Were you at NAS Miramar when the pilot flamed out on approach over I15 and his plane dove into a hanger. Two brothers from my high school were in there.
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The Pet Cemeteries are already full
[Read the article: Trade and the price of food]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The government solution is always to encourage their constituents to make themselves as dependent as possible on the politicians, their policies and their handouts. Do you think Bernanke would say, gee Mr and Mrs America, you should pay down debt, and save some money. Everytime we have one of these economic blowups Bush comes out and begs us all to go shopping, which is counterintuitive to what is sound advice. If they suggest cheap (foreign imported food) don't go for it, you've already seen the results, the pet cemeteries are full.