skyboltone wrote:I just banished myself from another forum because freedom of speech is always acknowledged for the left, seldom if ever for the right. More's the pity.
When the camera panned the audience durning Pres. Elect Obama's speech last night I was reminded somehow of those old black and white films of the Hitler Youth enjoying Der Furr's enlightenment.
Or you could look at Kennedy's or Martin Luther King's speeches.
skyboltone wrote:One proposal that has already been floated on the floor of the House is the Nationalization of 401 retirement plans. Won't go anywhere but scary never the less. America works best with divided government.
I just re-emerged into the daylight so I missed most of this.
Yeah, right. The Bank Bailout should forever put paid to any notion of those crooks managing out collective retirements.
Dan, Dan, Dan. What are we going to do with you? A right wing Union member? Well, I'm the other way around, I'm a gun totin' Liberal. See, it's all circular. Go far enough Left and you meet the extreme Right. We can share a six pack and talk about
guns.
skyboltone wrote:The country's only hope is that he goes ahead with plans to tax us out of the recession we're in. The last guy to try that was Herbert Hoover. That tactic will cost him both houses of congress come 2010. Then back to divided government. Hurrah!
Anything beats the last eight years. It's not quite an ostritch impersonation, an ostritch doesn't shove its head up its ass and pretend the world goes away.
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What we've had is eight years of the worst stewardship
ever. Spend billions in Iraq to blow up roads and bridges while roads and bridges crumble here for
free. Then spend billions more on no bid contracts to rebuild roads and bridges in Iraq while their oil revenues come rollin' in. That's The Weapon of Mass Distraction. Distract the public with foreign policy issues while our own country is in a shambles. Then we have the bank bailout which makes the price tag of the war look like a rummage sale. The timing of which makes my conspiracy theory gears kick into overdrive...
Obama bin Biden can't do much worse.
skyboltone wrote:Oh, and for those of you who hope he will bring manufacturing back to America here's some news. The only way he can accomplish that is to nationalize the means of production. That won't go anywhere either. Oh what to do, what to do.
C'mon, Dan...
WE f'ked that one up. "Look for... the Union label... when you're buyin' a joint, lid or pound!" or sumthin' like that. It used to be that consumers really did look for the little American flag and which Local made the product.
I have a mid-'65 issue of "Life" magazine that has a True Value Hardware ad in it. That's noteworthy because they had a Hoover vacuum cleaner and a Waring blender on sale that month. The Waring was made in Massachusetts right up the road from Winsted, Connecticut. I forget the town, it's one of those tiny rural burgs on the edge of The Berkshires. Anyway... the 1965 sale price on the blender was $59.99... in
1965 dollars! I expect I can hike over to Mall-Wart and buy an (imported from guess where?!) Waring for $19.99 in 2008 inflata-bucks.
Here's the thing, though. That 1965 Waring is probably still in Granny's cupboard and it probably still works. Grandpa probably got some the night he brought that blender home, something like that or a KitchenAid mixer were and are
the good stuff. It's like a '65 Strat. I can remember back in the '80s when We Buy Guitars had a whole window full of '60s re-fins for little more than a new one cost at the time. The original '65 Strat is of course the good stuff while an import will get beat up, hacked up and maybe thrown away.
Nationalize industry? You mean like Hitler did with the Volkswagen? If Obama buyin' GM buys us a New Age People's Car then I'm all for it.
Any of the American automakers are capable of bringing us a simple, practical and durable automobile that gets 40 m.p.g. all day and all night with 50 m.p.g. or 55 m.p.g. a genuine possibility. But they won't. Now that gas has come off the high of over $4.00 per gallon economical automobiles will quickly be forgotten. That's why I'm all for dictatorship, the public's attention span is incredibly short, even shorter than the attenuated attention span of Your Humble Narrator. They're not very smart, either, and worse... they don't value intelligence or good decision making skills. Some dee-dee-dee is gonna call me on that one and ask for a reference. Just believe it, man, it's true.