Famous Supporters
February 2nd 2008 20:08
On the news today I heard something that made me chuckle. The old saying about being defined by who your friends are is playing out on the political scene.
Mike Huckabee is supported by Chuck Norris. Action hero and martial arts expert...
Barak Obama has Oprah in his corner. TV star extrordinaire...
Hillary Clinton has Gray Davis. Former Calif. Governor who was so repugnant to the Calif. voters they held an emergency election to replace him (with Governator Arnold, no less). Her other Calif. follower of fame is Magic Johnson. Let's see... didn't he get AIDS from cheating on his wife?
Yep, you can learn a lot about the candidates by who supports them, can't you?
Mike Huckabee is supported by Chuck Norris. Action hero and martial arts expert...
Barak Obama has Oprah in his corner. TV star extrordinaire...
Hillary Clinton has Gray Davis. Former Calif. Governor who was so repugnant to the Calif. voters they held an emergency election to replace him (with Governator Arnold, no less). Her other Calif. follower of fame is Magic Johnson. Let's see... didn't he get AIDS from cheating on his wife?
Yep, you can learn a lot about the candidates by who supports them, can't you?
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Comment by Howard
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Comment by S.L. Bradish
Larouche is a Democrat who tried, unsuccessfully, to run for President several times. He (to his credit!) doesn't believe the Gore foolishness. He seems to think we need a single international monetary unit. He has successfully predicted economic trends for 40 odd years. I'm sure there is more to learn about him, but that will take some time. First, I have questions...
With his suggestion (during an interview in Equador last month) that the economy of the whole whole would benefit from being changed to a single currency, isn't that paving the way for the "One World Governement". Does he favor it?
The "global land bridge" he mentioned more than once without specifically supporting or opposing it. It seems there is an issue of global connectivity that keeps appearing in his speeches and writings. Maybe I just haven't read enough to get the whole picture yet. Could you explain it to me?
As I recall, FDR was still leading us through the Great Depression when World War Two started. His alliances with other world leaders had more to do with winning the war than saving their economies. In fact, the increased productivity and technology during the war was beneficial to every economy on Earth (except the Axis, of course). Exactly what part of the FDR strategy is Mr. Larouche talking about?
He appears to believe that old solutions will suffice for new problems. Maybe some of the current international troubles had their beginnings in the past, but shouldn't we be looking for different ways to repair damage rather than using methods that have been tried before (not with perfect success, either, or we wouldn't be having this conversation, would we?)
That should do for the moment. I'm sure to have more questions later. Feel free to either reply here or do a blog about it. The answers will probably be as lengthy as the questions! lol
Comment by S.L. Bradish
Regardless of where the "Welfare State" notion originated, the facts remain that it has become the property of the libs/dems by virtue of their holding onto it for so long.
During the Great Depression, FDR started make-work projects to allow the governemnt to support people without it appearing to be charity. Many of the emergency measures that were taken were necessary at the time, true. However, since then, even in a considerably better economy, those same measures continued. The welfare State has grown larger with every Democrat President since. LBJ and his "War on Poverty" really launched it! The vast number of entitlements we have to pay for now are from other Democrats. Hillary and Obama both have made it clear that they intend to launch new ones for the taxpayers to support. (Universal Healthcare being only one!) Nowhere in our Constitution does it say that healthcare, day care, welfare, free housing, drug treatment, abortion, etc. are rights. All those things have been put in motion by Democrat regimes and kept in place through the years because they began to be considered "rights" and "necessities." Even the means for collecting and redistributing the wealth was a Democrat idea. The IRS was never subject to a vote of, by and for the citizens of the USA. It was originally intended to be a means for Woodrow Wilson to pay for World War One. Unfortunately, like the rest of the money-making propositions, it never occured to any president since then to disband it.
Robin Hood was a great story, but having a government take from the rich and give to the poor via punitive taxes for successful people, is a left-wing idea all the way. And the definition of "rich" keeps getting lowered all the time. The definition or "poor" keeps getting raised, as well.
Comment by Howard
Real Crash
Cheap talk about welfare cheats has been endemic since the 1995 new Welfare Bill (no welfare for life), but seems to be just that, cheap scapegoating. LaRouche is teaching young people history, the history of science and the idea of human creativity. This is who and what he is deploying into the Presidential Race, a policy. Hillary will have to run her own campaign.
Comment by S.L. Bradish
I hope you don't believe that Hillary will ever do anything positive for the economy. She (with her vast history in poitics) has only managed to grind out the abyssmal mess called "hillarycare" that nobody in their right mind would have been able to support. She has already publicly stated that she wants to add more new "entitlements" than this country can afford. If you think the housing bubble caused trouble when it burst, wait til Hillary has a chance to triple your taxes and put you on the streets so you can be one of her "recipients." Obviously you don't understand why the libs/dems try to keep people on the welfare rolls, so I'll explain it.
Working people, who pay the taxes and support the non-workers, resent losing so much of their incomes and agree that the free market system is the best way to manage our finances. The libs/dems want to keep people on the dole in order to get their votes. I personally know several people who are third and fourth generation welfare recipients who hate the "evil" Republicans and think the country owes them the lifestyle to which they would like to become accustomed. Even in the Bible, work is rewarded and laziness is not. Why do you think the libs/dems want a huge influx of illegal aliens to have the rights and priveleges of citizens? So they can vote for the likes of Hillary, Howard, that's why.
Even JFK (who would be apalled at the way his party has turned out these days) said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." Remember that speech? Welfare was a temporary stop-gap measure back then. Now it's a lifestyle and getting bigger with every dem/lib who gets into office.
Comment by Howard
Real Crash
This must be stopped, or we are dead meat. You better back someone or something with a plan to stop it. I have spent my life working and even doing large amounts of volunteer work, when I can, so I am part of the "working class" too.
Comment by S.L. Bradish
Are you hoping for a one-world currency or economy or government? Is that solution? To bind us all to a single standard without borders or definitions of nations? Is the answer to have a working class supporting those who don't think they have to work or contribute? How many millions of people must the rest of us support? Hillary seems to think our finances can provide comfy lifestyles for the vast multitudes. But even she wants us to remain a seperate entity, a.k.a. the USA or she can't become the ruler thereof.
Comment by Howard
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Comment by S.L. Bradish
Comment by Howard
Real Crash
Anyway in the real world, cheaper oil, scientific progress, new energy resources, are FREEDOM mated with NECESSITY (Have you ever read I. Kant? How about, even better, G. Leibniz?) This is the best of all possible worlds, if we stop the global dictatorship (Bloomberg, etc.).
Comment by S.L. Bradish
I agree with you about necessity being "the mother of invention", Howard. But inventions and discoveries are made when people and companies have the freedom to explore new ideas and technology as well as the potential to make profits from what they create or discover. It happens every day in the real world.
Comment by Howard
Real Crash
Ages? Why couldn't anyone even take sanitary measures to stop the Bubonic plagues of the 1300s from killing half the population?
As for the Bloomberg thing, my sources say, that is what the fix is in for, unless stopped. Candidate gridlock and then Billionaire Mussolini on a horse.
Comment by S.L. Bradish