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  1. Are we talking rhetoric or action? Obama will often give a speech that does not seem to be dogmatic but then he follows it up with extremely dogmatic action. For example, Obama's environmental policy is nothing if not dogmatic. Another example is Obama's repeated rhetoric for a "balanced approach" to deficit reduction but his utter refusal to support meaningful spending cuts. In comparing Obama with Paul, there is a consistency between Paul's words and actions that is not present in Obama. If you want to call Paul more dogmatic because doesn't attempt to fool people to the degree that Obama does, so be it.
  2. Two simple truisms: If you subsizise something, you get more of it. If you tax something, you get less of it. Since those programs sudsidize poverty, the answer is yes.
  3. Here is Srah Palin's original quote concerning "death panels": Government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's "death panel" so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.
  4. I think you have to define what you mean when you say "cut". It is my understanding that under the Ryan budget the total dollar amount spent would continue to increase but not as fast as the baseline projections. So in Washington parlance that is a "cut". Every place else, it's a budget increase.
  5. Has anything happened in this case yet? I had heard that something might happen in March and it's now April.
  6. Cheney commented that the economy was heading south during the 2000 campaign and he was villified in the press. His comments were protrayed as unfounded, irresponsible statements designed to damage consumer confidence for partisan poltical gain. They also happened to be true.
  7. No manipulation of the media is necessary. ABC, CBS, NBC, and MSNBC know their role and willingly execute it.
  8. How about this for specifics on "secure the border" 1. If you arrest an illegal alien for any reason, deport them. But first keep them in jail for two weeks before you deport them. Catch and release in the same day doesn't work. If you penalize them by detaining them for two weeks that might be enough of a deterent. (I am willing to pay for the extra cost.) 2. Enforce stiff fines and even jail time for persons who hire illegals. (Actually do this and not give lipservice to it.) I don't want to hear about not being able to tell if the person is an illegal alien. If you throw a few businessmen in jail who you were certain knew they were hiring illegals (and there are literally thousands if not millions of these businessmen), the rest of the business community will fall in line and the job market for illegals will dry up. 3. Explode the myth that you need to deport all 12 million illegals to eliminate the illegal alien problem. Simple math says if the number of illegals who die or are deported exceeds the number of new illegals entering the country the problem will eventually go away. 4. Create a website showing everywhere the fence is supposed to be built. Put a name and face for the bureaucrat who is responsible for each section. Rank each of these bureacrats from most effective to least effective in building the fence. Do not leave anyone off the list. Lets have some government accountability! 5. Make all border webcams available to everyone on the web. (I believe Texas is already doing this for some Texas webcams.) Use the power of the web so apparent illegal crossings can be reported and investigated. 6. Use competition to increase speed and reduce cost of building the fence. Award competive contracts to more than one border fence contractor. And make the size of the next contract dependent upon performance in the previous contract. For example, award 10 mile contracts to 2 different companies. The company that performs the best on their 10 miles gets 15 of the next 20 miles and the ther company only gets 5 miles. Publicize the results of the competitions. 7. Sign an executive order streamlining the environmental impact studies. Basically, force the EPA to prove that there is a problem in order to stop contruction instead of stopping construction if there might be a problem.
  9. How about these for some ideas: 1. Stop the oil leak in the gulf. 2. Secure the border. 3. Increase legal immigration. 4. Repeal Obamacare 5. Keep captial gains taxes at 20%. 6. Cut government spending back to levels seen 10 years ago. 7. Get out of the automobile business. 8. Get out of the banking business 9. Stop using unsound finanical policies in a failed attempt at social engineering. 10. Don't apologize for America Exceptionalism. 11. Treat Israel with respect. 12. Treat England with respect.
  10. I thought Rush had it right today when he said that the Supreme Court was asked to vote on the 2nd Amendment and the 2nd Amendment passed 5-4. :eek:
  11. That's 2 points more than State Runner-up John Hardin.:banana:
  12. I find it difficult to blame the coach for starting a pitcher who went 6 innings and only gave up 1 earned run. Sexton pitched well. To blame the coach for the loss you would have to believe that a different Dixie pitcher (or pitchers) would have pitched a shutout. Anybody willing to guarantee that Smallwood or Stansberry would have done that? Dixie could have used more offense or better defense just as much if not more than better pitching. It's a team game. If they score 3 you need to score 4. If you only score 1, your pitching and defense need a shutout. Dixie did neither so Dixie as a team just didn't get it done. Congratulations to Dixie on a fine season and good luck to Boone the rest of the year!
  13. Congratulations to Dixie! Now bring home the 9th region championship today!
  14. There is too much logic based on fact and not enough antisemitism for this post to be consistent with world opinion.
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