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7.16.07 @ 12:01AM

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However, these socialist SP's are consumers. They devour the goods that capitalism makes (unless they are driving a USSR made car). They add velocity to the circulation of money (your tax money), but the irony of this is that 52.6 % of their income has become tax money also. The proverbial dog chasing its tale. Keynes was right, the bigger government spending becomes, the more it generates a constant supply of fuel for the marketplace (money).

However, Government is the worst, most non-productive provider of goods and services there is. It's a jobs program, pure and simple. The public employee unions (AFSCME is the worst), use politics as their means of SP survival, and guaranteeing job security.

I know I am preaching to the choir. Public bureaucracies are self-perpetuating, self-serving, self-indulging entities. Spending increases because no one has the guts to weed the garden. Oh well.
-- Fred Edwards

I greatly admired and enjoyed your article on Lizard Lists It is so true.

My family and I live and work in Bulgaria and I'm a volunteer for our Embassy as a warden. It is my job to call U.S. citizens and let them know if there is any disaster that involves U.S. citizens.

One day, about a year ago, I left the Consulate in Sofia and was walking down the street. By chance, I ended walking behind a State Dept. employee, who did not know me. He was talking in English to a Bulgarian staffer of the Consulate.

Thinking he was safe talking English with her, he went on ranting and raving about how "stupid, ignorant and incompetent" Bush appointees were in the State Dept.

He was discussing specific names, which I will not list here.

However, it embarrassed me to see his blatant disloyalty to our President. Could you see a Reagan appointee blasting a Clinton era appointee? He or she would be fired immediately.

Frankly, I was so disgusted, that I nearly let him know who I was and was going to explain to him how upset I was about what he was saying.

But I kept my mouth shut in order to hear more.

The other problem with this State Dept. wonk's diatribe is the influence on a Bulgarian employee at our Consulate. Just what do you think her impression of President Bush is now? Terrible in a word.

Finally, if this kind of thing goes on in public with the SP State people, can you just imagine what happens behind closed doors?

Scary thought!

I'm all for the T warriors to defeat the SP people. But I doubt that it will ever happen. It certainly is a battle we are not winning now.
-- Keith W. Brown

THE SCOUTMASTER
Re: Hal G.P. Colebatch's The Pope and the Boy Scouts:

I was very happy to read where the Pope spoke in support of the Boy Scouts. What a wise and great thing to do.

I can attest to the value of Scouting. One of the finest men I have ever met was my Scoutmaster. I say that in light of the fact that I have served as a soldier for over thirty years -- and I have met many outstanding men of character and courage in the ranks of the U.S. Army. Our Scoutmaster was all that a man should be for young men: He was an example of patience and understanding and dedication and service to others. He understood the problems of his boys (like me) and personally helped them to become good men. To top it all off, he was a Scoutmaster of a troop of pretty financially poor kids. He was barely above poverty himself, and had eight children of his own. From him we learned that money had absolutely nothing to do with what kind of person one becomes. We leaned that good men always take the harder right rather than the easier wrong. We learned to take our Scout oath seriously. Many of us went on to earn the Scouts' Catholic award, the Ad Atari Dei.

I could go on and on for the great things this man did as a Scout leader. He is dead now. And when I learned of his death through the newspaper, I felt an overwhelming sense of loss and the realization that the world had seen the passing of a man whom God had blessed. I am pleased the Pope knows that the Scouts still possess such leaders.
-- Paul Melody
Gainesville, Virginia

RAG TIME
Re: TC's letter (under "Calling Ron Paul") in Reader Mail's Democrat Scalpels:

Many of us envy you for having time not only to read the "rags" you don't like but to find time to respond to them. If I had that kind of time, I would still not read rags like the New York Times or Washington Post that ignore the truth if it does not fit their agendas.

Contrary to your conspiracy theory beliefs, the Federal Reserve System does not print money. That would be the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, a division within the Treasury department. The Fed manages the money supply by managing the level of reserves in the banking system. And, incidentally, the Fed has a Board of Governors that operate independently of the Executive and the Legislative branches of government. The Treasury is responsible for funding the growth of government through taxing and borrowing, not printing currency.

The Conservative movement is many things but it can't be both Fascist and Marxist. The former is totalitarian or ruling class while the latter is collectivist or working class. The ideals of Conservatism must certainly include the power and worth of the Individual. This ideal stands in stark contrast to both Fascism and Marxism.

If you are so concerned about the impending "economic hell," hold your nose and vote for Conservatives. In reality, the Liberals are surely the ones who favor more spending and more taxes and certainly more "tax slavery."
-- Bob Staggs
Goshen, Kentucky
P.S. In the future, summon the fortitude to tell readers who you are and where you live. By the way, define for us Neanderthals the "co-intel neutralization mechanism/project."

TC surely had one thing right, there is very little in TAS about Ron Paul, and very little anywhere else I might add. But wow, TC should get a life, chill or take a pill, that was some rant, made me wonder if the T in TC stood for "Tinfoil hat." TAS pushing a fascist agenda, oh baby.
-- RR in TW

DIM BULBS
Re: Peter Hannaford's Ms. Henny Penny in Concert:

Those light bulbs which are s'posed to be good for the environment -- we heard they have mercury in them. Do regular light bulbs have mercury in them -- you know the ones that you "can" read by.

By the way -- all those lush and lovely forests give off carbon dioxide just like humans do -- at night. I guess a little fact never proved to be inconvenient to a little whopper.
-- Paula Carmen

RACISM'S NUMBER
Re: Michael Fumento's Does Racism Cause Breast Cancer:

Now that Teletia Taylor has established her bona fides as a number smith, maybe Al Gore can put her to work establishing that racism causes global warming.
-- Mark Fallert
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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