Letters to the Editor
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@Taliesan
Lol, very nice, very nice. Yes, you definitely are unelectable.
But that is what my argument has been all along. No political party or elected official -- Democrat or Republican -- will be able to change these things in a single term. Heck, maybe in a lifetime. As I have posted before, the USA is like a giant aircraft carrier that takes ages to turn around, but if you punch a big enough hole in its hull it will sink _pretty_ fast (derivatives credit crisis, anyone?).
The most that we can hope for is evolution -- not revolution. Each President brings to the table their own primary concern and tries to get that resolved within their term(s). With the Democrats it's Universal Healthcare, with McCain it's "winning" the war in Iraq. No one can reasonably expect all of their concerns to be addressed by the elected official.
As I have stated before, I am for Universal Healthcare, even if it means more of my taxes going to a government program. But I want Clinton to handle it -- not Obama -- because I trust her more with my wallet (I could be wrong, but that's what I feel). And if it doesn't happen this term, I'm ok with having McCain focus on solving the Iraq problem for the next four years.
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Taliesan & red_gti2000
I am all for efficient government, but the average American's idea of government waste is way off.
Again, given the amount of money we take in for discretionary spending, you could cut 100 percent of everything but defense -- good, bad, wasted, efficient, whatever -- and you'd still have a tough time balancing the budget.
We have bigger problems than waste. It sounds good to say "cut waste" -- everyone hates waste. But it isn't an answer (unless by waste you mean war spending).
Again, Social Security pays for itself pretty well (the defense budget has to change every year, so I'd say SS being good for 35 years out is pretty spectacular). A small tweak and it could go on many more years. On top of that, it is incredibly efficient -- it is probably one of the most waste-free and successful government programs in human history.
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hey red
Guess what? You're actually a libertarian! Welcome!
I am too but this time around I'm voting democrat because i think its what is needed in terms of our world position.
The sad truth is that we will probably never have a smaller government...and efficient government...the government you described.
Unless....we start our own country!!
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Check out obama's slogan.....
What a great Obama slogan??????????
Does it surprise you?
Do people realize what he is saying?
"My Friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world.
I hope you will join me as we try to change it." (B. Obama)
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Reality-based Liberal
Check out the articles I linked to. The military is where I would start.
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@Reality
You may be right, of course. But no one will know until we have made the systems transparent and have independent accounting. If the real numbers are in front of us and the facts are undeniable then we will all have to deal with the realities. That is all I am asking for. Transparency, independent verification and -- most importantly -- the separation of social programs from the day-to-day operations of the government. In engineering I was taught that the way to solve a complex problem is to break it down into small parts and solve those first. The same principle can be applied to government. We can't be mixing in social programs with taxation. It muddies up the waters and decreases transparency. Keep the taxation simple and create a separate social program -- funded by the tax receipts (if any, lol). The whole system has to be re-engineered to increase transparency and keep projects that do not share the same goal separate. The goal of taxation is to generate revenue for government. You shouldn't rig the tax system to promote wealth redistribution because you reduce the efficiency of the process. But this is what we have.
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WorriedInAmerica4Americans
Worst slogan I ever saw, was in South Africa, for the then leader of the DA.
You have this picture of a guy trying to look stern, and largely failing. The slogan? "We can do better."
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Couldn't Agree More
It seems like leftys' prized individuality comes back to haunt them when they look for reasons to demure about these candidates. The truth is either of them would come into office with a progressive agenda, which-I'm sorry-is what this country sorely needs right now.
It doesn't matter that I like John McCain as a person, I'm against making the war and the tax cuts permanent and continuing the vastly inefficient private-insurance health care non-system we have today.
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WE (THE HILLARY CLINTON VOTERS) ARE ON A WINNING TRACK. WE'LL BUILD THINGS UP FURTHER ON APRIL 22ND IN PA.
Before I get to my home state of Pennsylvania, let me cover a few important items as "set up".
It looks like progress is being made to admit delegates from Florida and Michigan, either through a re-vote, or seating those already selected in the recent previous votes.
I do object to words of "pressure" I am hearing, that the Democratic Party should go into the August Convention with the nominee already chosen, and if not, we may be just opening up the door for Senator John McCain to walk in from the November vote.
I doubt very highly that this will be resolved by convention time. The rules allow a process into the convention, and if that is where the delegate math is at that time, we will proceed along that course.
I have seen some confusion on the Florida matter, and I want to add what I know from researching some of the actual newspaper reports from that time.
It was the Republican Governor and Republican controlled legislature that moved up the date of the primary, knowing full well in advance that the state's Democratic Party delegates would not be seated. The Democratic Party did not agree to this. It was not their idea. It was "forced" down their throats when the Republican controlled legislature tacked it on to some critical legislation that had to go through at the end of the session. The Democratic people tried to have it separated and voted on separately, but the Republican Party who was in control said no, and muscled it through. That was not fair, and now we (people in all 50 states) are only trying to play by the rules as they should have been, and correct what unfairly happened.
It appears what we had above was remnants of the earlier George Bush/Kathryn Harris Republican Party of Florida up to its ole tricks; but now we can correct that.
I am a resident of PENNSYLVANIA, and I am asking all voters throughout this great state (border to border) to join me on April 22nd, pour out to the polls, and give Hillary Clinton a massive record breaking win on that date. That is something that we can control, and we need no advice from anybody on that. Let's do all we can to give her a major massive record breaking win, and lawfully (at the ballot box) squish down this Obama noise of fake and hyped up euphoria that no one can put on their kitchen table.
Let's show the rest of the country we are here, we're proud of it, and we can help by substantially keep building up the momentum from Ohio and Texas, and jack it up to where it should be.
Thank you for your attention.
Only the Truth - Bruce
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