Comments Posted By P. Aaron
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IF IT WASN'T SO FRIGHTENING, I WOULD LAUGH
Quote:He has the bully pulpit but he is as yet not knowledgeable enough and too insecure to use it effectively. Not too surprising seeing how he has never served in such a situation before and he has only had this job for three weeks. So I expect Mr. Obama to resort to his campaign tactics of emotionally charged speeches, emphasizing crisis, catastrophe and urgency in every issue.
I think the public (& maybe even the Obot-media) will tire of this if we accept your statement (& I do) that the big 'O' has no skill for leadership. He lacks any philisophical depth, other than the typical class warfare stuff. So the "on the stump' rhetoric will get old fast.
And we still got the rest of that big 'ol world out there doin' their thing that typically occupies the greatest part of a president's time & efforts.
Comment Posted By P. Aaron On 13.02.2009 @ 20:34
This bunch just approved the spending of a trillion dollars without lookin'.
I could throw my 2 cents worth of advice in, but I oppose these guys, so why give 'em any chance at true statesmanship?
Comment Posted By P. Aaron On 13.02.2009 @ 20:21
A "summary delayed is a summary denied".
Comment Posted By P. Aaron On 12.02.2009 @ 12:20
IF GOVERNMENT MAKES LIFE EASIER, DOES THAT MAKE IT BETTER?
QUOTE:There are conservative trade-offs for liberty, too. In a world where a CEO can pay himself 50 million dollars while cutting 50 million dollar’s worth of jobs at his company and call it efficiency, where is the freedom for the working stiff? He didn’t make a bad choice. He didn’t do a bad job. He improved his productivity, but not enough to compensate for the CEO’s executive compensation. So now the worker who did all he was supposed to do loses health care and home. Nice freedom.
Let's examine a part of what you stated and ask this: What if goverment gave every American the trillion dollars instead of spending it on prophylactics and ACORN?
Hucksters and skilled high earners have been a part of history as long as history has been recorded. They are not soley in the private sector either.
I suppose you can feel the libertarian thrill running up your leg learning about $335,000,000 going to STD research that is part of Obama's "stimulus" bill.
That'll show those conservative greed-whores.
Corporate execs, whether greedy, con-men, or absolute marvels providing awesome value to their customers still allow you to choose whether you want their product or not. If government is doing the producing and the screwing, (and it's your biggest $$$ contribution every year whether you like it or not) what are your alternatives?
Quit buying their product?
Speak Truth to Power?
Leave the country?
Or, take up arms to fight (all over again) for your liberty? Hoping that others will join you?Government can't and should not do it all. Likewise with liberty can't do it all either. But I for one would prefer the choice, and have preserved for myself, the liberty to not choose as well.
Government right now is attempoting to charge YOU, and ME and the collective with a Trillion dollar piece of fecal matter that will do nothing as advertised. And you're goin' off about private-corporate mis-management?
Folks will still lose their jobs. That's one thing that will never change. But once government gets ahold of your liberty, it won't change back if it is determined that it ain't workin' out so well. Why?
Because Government NEVER examines the results of its own awful policies.
Comment Posted By P. Aaron On 28.01.2009 @ 18:48
THOUGHTS ON OBAMA'S FIRST WEEK: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY
Tell me Dem defenders how this "stimulus" bill, as it was originally proposed; with the dog runs, an ACORN subsidy and the exceptional contraceptive heft would stimulate anything economical?
There's spending, there's pork, then there's just plain foolishness.
It is terror in the eyes of the Democrats you're seeing. They're seeking Republican compliance NOT because the bill is good, but because they doubt their own ideas and they want bi-partisan cover, not for 'if' it fails, but when it fails to produce the result they claim it would.
This entire "Stimulus" premise is flawed. As if printing currency is going to grow an economy. If it was that simple, why not shave down gold coins like the Romans did and expect the same amount of coins to buy the same quantity of goods, which did not happen.
Comment Posted By P. Aaron On 27.01.2009 @ 21:11
Obama's doing the political payoff thing. Most of it shortsighted and not very logical.
His allowing states to set their own guidelines for tailpipe emmissions will result in more pollution by limiting the ability of the Big 3 & Foreign makers to adapt to ever-changing rules. The used cars in activist states will fetch a premium and folks will either buy or hold on to those older cars. The car-makers are in a manufacturing nightmare and will simply write off certain models for some states, effectively limiting choices to the consumer. Used car are not subject to the new emmission standards, so all that old car pollutant content will be higher and add more junk to the air those meddling idiots are trying to clear.
It seems that nobody in Obama-land is thinking anything through.
Comment Posted By P. Aaron On 26.01.2009 @ 20:01
A LATE AFTERNOON STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS POST ABOUT NOTHING MUCH IN PARTICULAR
Brent Bozell said the media's lack or resources will insure that future ivestigative reporting by news outlets will be lacking. Sadly, he's probably right...along with the media's new lack of will or identity. They've reduced themselves to a bunch of commentators.
It's Tiger-Fab-Gear-Beat quality reporting we got these days.
Comment Posted By P. Aaron On 22.01.2009 @ 18:58
WILL NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE KILL CONSERVATISM?
Another "dirty little secret" of nationalized health care is that the people who are all for it are the most selfish greedy people around. They'll happily get it and the lion's share of all scope and level of services.
Within 15-25 years budgetary issues will cause government to ration care overall. There will be no attempts to make Americans live healthier lives, basic care will just start to go away as it becomes less possible to fund. Just like Social Security or Medicare, or your own municipalities troubles budgeting for their own infrastructure. Hell look at public schools; they're all budgetary nightmares.
But those that clamor for it now don't care about the future. They'll be gone, and they'll enjoy the best of it right until the end. Talk about greedy, I can't imagine a worse thing to do to the youth. Sending them to war to fight for freedom is a difficult but arguable decision. Shackling them to a never ending-escalating financial burden seems unconscionable.
Comment Posted By P. Aaron On 22.11.2008 @ 14:45
JACK BAUER: 'REDEMPTION'? OR DESCENT INTO SILLINESS?
I read Ludlum until Clancy came along. I was a democrat until reality crept in. I'll like '24' until it stops being good.
We'll see.
Comment Posted By P. Aaron On 21.11.2008 @ 14:43
OOGEDY-BOOGEDY AND BIBBIDI, BOBBIDI, BOO
The practice of being a conservative is not a popularity contest. Sadly, getting elected and holding a politically conservative-governing majority is. The dichotomy is that to be conservative is to not believe in the "farm team" or the "deep bench", but to just practice the basic priciples which includes disdain and refrain from being too involved with government and excess governing.
The former democrats that are now socialists believe in using government as a tool to deliver all aspects of gov't control unto the private citizen. (Who's talking about converting whom here?) Conservatives have understood and the proof is historically obvious that government run enterprises are largely destructive to a moral society and fail to deliver any quality of service or cost effectiveness. Gov't run services tend to destroy liberty every time they're enacted.
Comment Posted By P. Aaron On 21.11.2008 @ 22:27
