Comments Posted By Six
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YOUNG, STUPID THINK PROGRESS RESEARCHER LOSES SANITY IN PUBLIC
Here's the flaw in your automobile comparison richard. I can choose whether or not to own or drive a car. If I choose to own one then I choose to pay all the associated costs and accept all the attached regulations, like seatbelts and insurance. Choose being the operative word here.
The problem with mandated health care is that I no longer get to choose whether or not I will participate. I can't opt for a bicycle, or the bus or shanks mare. I must pay or conceivably go to jail. It may or may not be 19 dollars but even if it is, it's my 19 dollars. Not yours, mine. If you come up to me on the street and demand 19 dollars every time I get paid it's called robbery or extortion. If you now argue that I already pay thousands in other taxes you'd be absolutely right. My response would be, maybe the government should stop taxing me to death. That is not a reasonable excuse to add one more tax on top of what I already pay.
Comment Posted By Six On 26.09.2009 @ 22:51
I'm a grown up adult person and solely responsible for my own success or failure. For what I choose to buy or own and for what I choose not to.
As for the girl in the story. I'm sorry she's dead. I wish she had availed herself of a local hospital where they are legally mandated (Hey, there's that word again. Maybe we already have mandated health care) to give her treatment. She made a choice. It was a tragic one but no more tragic than a citizen who sees it as his or her duty to join the military and fight for their country and gets killed in the process.
America is all about choices. It's called Freedom.
"If Iraq is so vital why don’t I see every GOP family urging their sons and daughters to go fight the damn war the way my father went to fight in WWII, even before he was able to vote without risking life & limb."
Go back and look. I didn't say Iraq was vital. I did send my daughter off to war with a tear and a prayer. By the way, I'm not GOP, I'm a registered Independent and primarily a Libertarian Conservative.
The Army is not busted. I've kept enough contacts within to be confident about saying that. It's no thanks to the left though. You do remember code pink don't you?"You mean President Obama?"
This isn't a totaliarian society just yet. I'll refer to obama in any way that seems good to me.
"What slim chance we had of victory may be gone and the man who blew that chance has skipped town to clear brush back on his ranch full time I guess."
The balance in Iraq is still in doubt, no argument from me there, but it has a better chance of survival now than it had before General Petraeus. Of course who was it that argued that the war was lost and the surge would fail? Remember when the left called him General Betrayus? I didn't see anyone on the left clamoring for a victory strategy just unconditional pullout and abject failure. The reasons we went there, good, bad or indifferent, the positive gains made in that country are because Bush (finally) put the right person in charge and gave him the tools he needed. It's called leadership.
"I was referring to the quote from A Few Good Men."
Try a history book instead. You might even learn something.
Comment Posted By Six On 26.09.2009 @ 12:50
Fictional??? I'm assuming you're not referring to me. I served 8 years, 9 months, 4 days U.S.Army. Not that I'm counting.
Comment Posted By Six On 26.09.2009 @ 00:39
I find Bush wanting in many ways too, I just find obama wanting in every way that counts. Fiscal, Constitutional, foreign policy, etc., ad nauseum.
At least Bush served. What branch of service was obama in? None? Merchant Marine? Boy Scouts? Girl Scouts maybe? No? Nothing?
The Iraq War? Is that the best you can do? I thought the litargs wanted us out of both Iraq (and Afghanistan). I thought obama was going to do that post haste. Where are the anti-war protests demanding obama get us out of Iraq immediately? I haven't seen one lately. Could it be that you don't really care about Iraq? That you only care about pushing a liberal agenda?
Until the left stages an anti-obama war protest you need to find a new dead horse to flog.
Oh wait. In my happiness at having another litarg to annoy and school I almost forgot.
Rick that was a beautiful post on Bibi. At this moment in time, regardless of his past difficulties, I believe he is the right man at the right time for Israel. With the latest news that the leadership of Iran have been lying like bill clinton at a grand jury hearing (Ooh, too soon?) can a forced resolution be far away? It's nut cuttin' time as my grandfather liked to say. Why do I think obama will be found wanting? Again.BTW. I got here from the empire. I like it. Can I hang out with you guys for a while?
Comment Posted By Six On 25.09.2009 @ 19:13
"If people like Michelle Bachmann have a conscience, which I doubt, they will look at incidents like the murder of the census worker and finally start to realize that their spew is coming home to roost."
Richard bottomsYou might want to take another look at that. The area where he was found and was doing his census work is one of the largest marijuana growing areas east of the Rockies. Rural growers are some of the most violent and dangerous people out there. I've been a street cop for 24 years so yes, I do know what I'm talking about. Moonshiners fought the government for decades and in similiar locations. It's not just among right wing circles that 'feds' is a curse word. If you insist on calling this a right wing militia killing be prepared for a nice crow dish. A sandwich perhaps?
"We warned you against Iraq and the lack of focus in Afghanistan."
Richard bottomsAnd now this administration is making noises about ignoring the theater commander and possible withdrawal. Maybe. Not too sure. We're asking around. Where's that focus now?
"Real enough to know that a president who turned our prestige, the world’s sympathy after 9/11, and surplus into a trillion dollars of debt to China is why we had zero leverage against Putin’s Russia."
Ah, an oldie but a goodie. Yes, Bush was a fiscal socialist. There, I said it. Happy now? I am certainly not alone in that view.
Comment Posted By Six On 25.09.2009 @ 18:59
On the other hand, this administration is spending to the tune of 1.2 trillion in projected new debt every year, much of which China is buying. And that's without cap and trade and health care.
The gripping hand? We had zero leverage against Russia because...wait for it... we have zero leverage against Russia. Putin is an old school, hard line russkie and he plays the game the way he wants to. He doesn't care a whit for what anyone thinks or does, short of expressed military power. No one has leverage on the man.
