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Originally posted by halfoldman
[Sounds like all you need is some frustrated person from the visual arts to form a grand left/right mixture based on goose-stepping, beer, brawling and singing.
and you've illegally invaded countries.
I'm not sure you have hyper-inflation, masses of unemployed war veterans or crippling war repayments.
Originally posted by xpert11
Now the USA today isn't as extract replica or formula but it is close enough you have a bunch of crack pot right wingers who want No taxes
Then you have the so called Constitutionalists who are split into two crowds the first thinks that solutions to problems form three hundred years ago will work today . Aside from that being untrue such thinking is extremely inflexible . The second crowd really only knows how to site the first , second and tenth amendments . Thanks to human nature no such thing as a genuine Constitutionalist if there was then the following issues would have been addressed the Louisiana Purchase , the fact that the Vice President isn't the loser of a presidential election and so on .
Besides, America is “growing old” and if old people are going to keep their two great life-savers, social security and medicare, there must be young people at work, happy enough to accept paying the taxes required to pay those old people. Anti-immigrants are jackasses! (And Republicans). And I apologize to that wonderful animal, the jackass.
Ok so you are very confused if you think people who support and defend the Constitution are a bunch of crack pot right wingers. The Constitution no longer exists and needs to be reinstated because what you don't understand is the Constitution was written to say what the government can not do in order to protect peoples rights which were given to them by their creator... Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Immigration benefits the country and its social security system ONLY if immigrants pay more into the system than they receive from it. Which way is it in the US?
[T]he whole developed world is growing old, but with the assistance of new technologies, produce several times more than citizen in the past . . I don’t consider it such a big problem as many people think . . if the average life span is rising, the only logical answer is that retiring age must also rise . . the ratio of productive and unproductive part of life stays constant.
Can you have your cake and eat it too? Do you think it is possible to have separate branches of the US government controlled by different political party's and still have a functioning government?
Once the separate branches of government are controlled by different political party's people are inclined complain that a sitting president can't his or her legislative agenda passed into law. The no taxes and no government crowd certainly wants to have its cake and eat it to. They don't want to pay any taxes and have any regulations on the books and then they turn around and complain about the governments inability to deal with the likes of the Gulf Oil spill.
Is it not possible to police the USA borders adequately without interfering with the granting of citizenship? If not then how do other countries manage such a feat?
Should parts if not all the Constitution be taken to the letter of the law or just in spirit?
I would also put forward the notion that MacArthur political views were often rightfully maligned but at least he had some clue about the world outside of the USA unlike Palin.*
*After his death MacArthur was proven partially right and wrong in his Asia first view of the world. Many of the world’s top economies reside in Asia. At the same time roughly 30% of the oil the US and Japan ended up importing came from Saudi Arabia.
If one was to be critical, one might say that MacArthur could find the place he wanted to drop the left overs from a Nuclear bomb on. If she wanted to do the same outside of the US Palin could not.