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Originally posted by newcovenant
reply to post by lkpuede
14 presidents before the first President GW?
I don't follow you.
Originally posted by beezzer
We are at war. A scruffy little grass-roots movement, just wanting smaller government and a return to personal responsibility.
We don't want big government. We don't need program after program after program. Personal responsibility. To yourself, to your family.
An analogy I like to use is this; imagine a person with a broken leg.
The Tea Party would like to see the person go to physical therapy, use crutches, a cane, then walk on their own. It'd be painful. But the patient would learn to walk again, and become self-reliant.
The progressives want to give the person a wheelchair (bought by someone else). They don't want the person to go through the painful process of rehabilitation. They want that person to stay in the wheelchair until the legs have atrophied to a point where they CAN'T leave the wheelchair. They want that person to be dependent. They want that person to NEED them.
Therefore, the war. They will fight for every needy person, every dependent person, because without them, their own existence can't be justified.
Just my take on it.
Yours?edit on 30-8-2011 by beezzer because: e
Originally posted by lkpuede
Originally posted by newcovenant
reply to post by lkpuede
14 presidents before the first President GW?
I don't follow you.
well i don't mean to be smart, but maybe it's time for you to brush up on the history of your country. there were, in fact, 14 individuals that carried the title President before George Washington came down the road. and We The People do not elect the President.
now...for a bunch of people who know all about Elenin and The Galactic Federation of Light and the Reptians and Draconians and What Really Happened On 9/11....but don't understand the basic functions of their own government is a truly sad state of affairs.
just sayin...
Why is no one that's quoting me, answering any of the other issues I raised? Why is corporate welfare ok but welfare for those that are low income or no income is just a bunch of people wanting hand-outs? Why is the Tea Party so against raising corporate taxes and taxes on people who make more than 250K/year but are perfectly ok with raising taxes on the middle and lower classes. I say again...if you don't want social programs tell the people you want in office that they need to bring our jobs home.
Originally posted by SWCCFAN
You know when the "CBC" talks this kinda rhetoric its a wonder they are not called raciest. Oh that's right you can't be racist against a majority.
I can only imagine what they will say when Obama becomes a one term president. I believe 2012 will be a very interesting year indeed.
The "CBC" will likely claim that the "raciest" tea party is responsible. Some black people I work with still think Obama is the best president we have ever had and when I ask them to back up that statement with evidence they can't. When I point out the fact he has never kept a campaign promise and that he has spent more money than any other president in the same time period, I am labeled raciest.
Some of them would jump off a cliff if Obama said it was the right thing to do.
TPTB want a divided nation that fight amongst ourselves so their agenda can go forward mostly unnoticed.
However they're many like myself that are not distracted by this nonsense. We know that TPTB need to have us fighting with our neighbors so we can't fight them.
To the Powers That Be. We are coming for you. Expect us.
To the Powers That Be. We are coming for you. Expect us.
Corporate Welfare is not ok.
Raising taxes on anyone is against Conservative or Tea Party principles/ideas
Originally posted by newcovenant
Originally posted by lkpuede
Originally posted by newcovenant
reply to post by lkpuede
14 presidents before the first President GW?
I don't follow you.
well i don't mean to be smart, but maybe it's time for you to brush up on the history of your country. there were, in fact, 14 individuals that carried the title President before George Washington came down the road. and We The People do not elect the President.
now...for a bunch of people who know all about Elenin and The Galactic Federation of Light and the Reptians and Draconians and What Really Happened On 9/11....but don't understand the basic functions of their own government is a truly sad state of affairs.
just sayin...
No worries. You're not. I don't know about all that stuff - Reptilians, Draco and Elenin and I think you are wandering off topic again but I do know George Washington was the first President of the United States and we do elect our Presidents.
A duh?
And I edited my post so it would actually reference what I was taking about rather than leave room for whatever crumbs of esoteric knowledge you have to share that are completely off topic...pearls that they are.edit on 31-8-2011 by newcovenant because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by newcovenant
reply to post by lkpuede
In many posts you have said nothing. Provided no links. No proof.
You are incredulous at your core...are you anything more?
Originally posted by SWCCFAN
You know when the "CBC" talks this kinda rhetoric its a wonder they are not called raciest. Oh that's right you can't be racist against a majority.
I can only imagine what they will say when Obama becomes a one term president. I believe 2012 will be a very interesting year indeed.
The "CBC" will likely claim that the "raciest" tea party is responsible. Some black people I work with still think Obama is the best president we have ever had and when I ask them to back up that statement with evidence they can't. When I point out the fact he has never kept a campaign promise and that he has spent more money than any other president in the same time period, I am labeled raciest.
One of the things the Democrat Party has done very successfully is to convince many disenfranchised people, minorities, and lower and middle class working people that they are truly for the common man and want to help them. They use class warfare to convince people that Republicans are a bunch of rich fat cats who hate poor people and want granny to eat cat food. This is really the rally cry of Marxists, as they promote the idea of Unions representing the proletariat, espoused as the owners of the means of production. That's communism!
Communism is a sociopolitical movement that aims for a classless and stateless society structured upon common ownership of the means of production, free access to articles of consumption, and the end of wage labour and private property in the means of production and real estate. In Marxist theory, communism is a specific stage of historical development that inevitably emerges from the development of the productive forces that leads to a superabundance of material wealth, allowing for distribution based on need and social relations based on freely associated individuals.The exact definition of communism varies, and it is often mistakenly, in general political discourse, used interchangeably with socialism; however, Marxist theory contends that socialism is just a transitional stage on the road to communism. en.wikipedia.org...
In the 20th century and early 21st century, hereditary dictatorship remained a relatively common phenomenon.
For some scholars, a dictatorship is a form of government that has the power to govern without consent of those being governed
(similar to authoritarianism),
while totalitarianism describes a state that regulates nearly every aspect of public and private behavior of the
people.
In other words, dictatorship concerns the source of the governing power (where the power comes from)
and totalitarianism concerns the scope of the governing power (what is the government).
In this sense, dictatorship (government without people's consent) is a contrast to democracy (government whose power comes from people) and totalitarianism (government controls every aspect of people's life) opposes pluralism (government allows multiple lifestyles and opinions). en.wikipedia.org...
Originally posted by HauntWok
reply to post by beezzer
Actually we are at war:
Against a small group of people who want this Republic turned into a fascist state ruled by the corporate oligarchy elite (oh I'm sorry, "Job Creators")
These people's idea of a smaller government is to destroy the middle class completely, and make sure that the richest 1% get it all.
These people's idea of a more free nation is to destroy OSHA, and the EPA so that corporations can make this continent completely uninhabitable by people.
The Taxed Enough Already Party is the bulldog of the corporate elite set out to destroy the working man and completely crush the American dream.
Originally posted by lkpuede
Originally posted by newcovenant
reply to post by lkpuede
In many posts you have said nothing. Provided no links. No proof.
You are incredulous at your core...are you anything more?
are you really serious right now? you need a link to the Constitution? you need a link to the Electorial College? are you REALLY serious right now? here's a link for you. copy and paste this in your browser: The Constitution of The United States. here's another something you can copy and past into your browser: The Function of the Electorial College of The United States. when you are done with that, you can look up "how many Presidents were there before George Washington".
get a cup of coffee and get comfortable...you've got a lot of reading to do.edit on 31-8-2011 by lkpuede because: (no reason given)