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The president is not a very good liar and neither are his surrogates in Congress.
I'm not even a reporter, but I get it.
-- Roy W. Hogue
HOME ON THE RANGE
Re: Philip Klein's
Everything That Rises Must Converge:
In a rush? Indeed he is, Mr. Klein. More like a tin horn bureaucrat rushing to get ahead of a stampede and turn it before it tramples down city hall. Next year, we cowboys will be rushing, too, to the polls to try and head off this stampede of stupidity before we lose the ranch. We can rebuild city hall in a week, but the ranch takes time, it has to be nurtured, and if we lose it, there may never be another.
It's Gonna Change
(Home on the Range)
"O" lives in OUR home
Near the capitol dome
Where the donkeys and the elephants play
Where seldom is heard
An intelligible word
And the Speaker is pouty all day
"O" wants it made right
Using government might
And by taking our freedoms away
Make us cars that are green
And our bodies real lean
Then tax us until we can't pay
CHORUS
"O" it's gonna change
Though the donkeys and elephants may play (for now)
Come November next year
We will make it real clear
And the Pouter will be sent on her way!
"O" thinks he's so cool
That he's nobody's fool
But his plans may be going awry
'Cause the climate's OK
So, let's go out and play
We don't care if it makes Al Gore cry
"O", say, can't you see,
That Rev. Wright-ology,
Is baloney and pie in the sky?
Healthcare is a BUST!
It's in God that we TRUST!
We like HIM to decide when we die!
CHORUS
"O" it's gonna change
Though the donkeys and the elephants may play (for now)
We will make it real clear
It takes more than warm beer
And Ms. Pouty will be sent on her way!
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Tenn Slim| 8.4.09 @ 7:42AM
Re Cash for clunkers.
Unintended consequence abound, for sure. Here, near the Big Muddy, the dealer are being VERY cautious, becasuse as of this writing, NO ACTUAL CASH transfers have been made. The Dealer are out on a very long limb and know it.
IF and WHEN the proces completes the detailed cycle and CASH actually starts flowing, then and only then can the program be considered.
Unintended consequences abound, but the BASIC PREMISE has yet to be fulfilled.
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Semper Fi
Big J| 8.4.09 @ 9:00AM
A. C. Santore:
"I'm a conservative. I abhor the drunken sailor spending of the elite in Washington (with apologies to drunken sailors for that cruel comparison). I abhor the fact that the elite don't remember that they are there to serve the United States, and not their own self-interests. I admit that the feds have made a hash of administering the CARS program."
If one were to stop reading your letter there, one might actually believe you.
Unfortunately, I did not, and do not.
The CARS program consists of two things:
1) Redistribution of wealth. The federal government is ROBBING money from the private sector and putting it in the hands of a favored lobby group (which brings me to point two).
2) Payback to the UAW. If your assertion were true, why wouldn't the same benefit apply to Ford?
You have a lot to learn about conservatism.
Appleby| 8.4.09 @ 9:56AM
The real problem is that this foolish program does not encourage people to buy cars that they were not going to buy before. It merely shifts the time frame in which the people who were going to buy new cars will buy them...and get someone else's tax money as a bonus.
As soon as all the people who have bought the cars they want have completed their transactions, the market will go back to where it was before.
Michael L. Hauschild| 8.5.09 @ 6:12AM
Ain't gonna eat no government cheese. Well, the people have decided; top recipient of my tax dollar, Ford (bad) next four foreign (even worse). Will you dunces quit giving my money away?