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Originally Posted by l2ridehd
Boomer, I was agreeing with everything you said up until "the Republicans pandering to the far right" The biggest problem they have and why they lost the house and senate is they have moved away from the conservative values and trying to make themselves look more like Democrats. Read that a move to the center. The only time the Republicans are successful is when they stick to the core values of conservatives. Lower taxes, less government, more freedom for the people. When they do that they win elections, when they don't we end up with elected officials who raise taxes, spend, spend, spend and add more regulations, and more government. Based on whats been passed in congress already and what Obama has proposed to spend, if he gets most of it, which I believe he will, he will spend more in the first 20 months of his presidency then has been spent by government from its inception until the day he took office. Guess what that will do to your $$$$. You think Jimmy Carter caused inflation, which was double digit, wait until you need a $20 bill to buy a loaf of bread.
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I know HD. I know. I was shopping mortgage rates, buying a house, during the Carter years while rates were going up by the minute. (I was still a baby but was tuned in to the lay of the land.) Found a 10% fixed and was thrilled to have it. I also held CD's at 17%, but I knew that was not right either.
But it seems like after all that, the Fed feared only inflation. And the fear of inflation grew and grew. And then Greenspan, genius though he may be, just kept giving money away, with little reg, until the floodgates opened for obscene, unrestrained greed. I kept yelling at Al to knock it off, every time I saw him on television. I know he thought he was being a capitalist. I know he used to party with Ayn Rand. Well, maybe he should have been partying with Boomer.
About my long lost Repubs. I liked McCain. I defended his age on here once. Told people to shut up about it. McCain is one tough guy. But I knew he had to have a clue for the VP. So I watched. I waited. And then he slapped me right across the face when he picked SP. It looked like any port in a storm to me. Any woman would do. I had to then write him that Dear John letter. Our country needed to get beyond calling upon the abortion issue to drive the bus. Easy mark, no thought required, hot button still though for the Repubs when the country was facing economic meltdown, barely addressed by campaign rhetoric.
The war? Who knows? Mr. Boomer tells me that we cannot know everything about it. He was military for a while, jumping out of perfectly good airplanes, but Nixon signed the treaty before he had to go to Viet Nam from Okinawa where he was stationed. The war thing? A mess indeed. But I do not believe that our right to know should supersede out right to exist. And it scares me a lot that some want it that way. Let our spies do their thing and fund them to do it. But please do not compromise our safety by demanding we be told too much.
I did not want to break up with the Repubs. They made me do it. I cannot worship Rush Limbaugh and the like. I wanted my party to see the big picture and offer common sense solutions. It was my party and I will cry if I want to. I truly am lost politically. Neither party is what I want.
Before I go I am posting a link here. It is that old thing about a democracy lasting only 200 years. It took me forever to find a link to this. First I had the wrong guy. Then I thought his name was Tyler, not Tytler. Then I found out that it is kind of a phantom attribution of the quote. And then the best I could do was this Wikiquote link.
I know enough about citing sources to know that anything with Wiki on the front is not always truly referenced, but hey we are living in a WikiWorld, are we not?
So have a look at this, and attributed correctly or not, it is kind of scary. How far down that list are we? (The list is at the bottom half of the link. The first part is kind of a mess. Wiki stuff is not the best as a real source. But that list, that has been floating around forever, does give me pause for thought.)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexander_Fraser_Tytler
Boomer