Moving to GENERAL. Tony Alfrey wrote: > Michael Hipp wrote: >> Tony Alfrey wrote: >>> Ken Moffat wrote: >>>> Collins Richey wrote: >>>>> On 10/9/06, Ric Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> If the Republicans remain in >>>>> control, they will merely stumble along as they have the past 8 years, >>>>> but if the Democrats get control they will raise taxes and destroy the >>>>> economy. Show me a Democrat who understands that raising taxes does >>>>> not increase tax revenues >>>> Balony. It's pretty easy to stimulate an economy when you run up an 8 >>>> trillion dollar national debt. If I ran my life that way, I'd have to >>>> declare bankruptcy, but that is no longer an option, thanks. I'd like to >>>> have KBR's tax situation, set up an offshore office and pay taxes on NO >>>> income. Thanks again. Don't get me started on this administration's >>>> misdeeds. >>>> >>> My grandchildren (who are not even alive yet by about 20 years) will be >>> paying for the economic, political and cultural misdeeds and distortions >>> of this administration. >> *Did US history begin on January 1, 2000?* >> >> Your grandchildren will be paying for the misdeeds and distortions of >> every congress and administration since at least FDR. Scratch that, >> since Abraham Lincoln. > > No. We've recovered from and corrected many (but not all) misdeeds of > prior administrations.
Can you name one significant misdeed of prior administrations that has been corrected and recovered from? Their misdeeds are cumulative. They stack up year after year as congress and the president and SCOTUS destroy more of the constitution and the cultural and economic foundation of the entire country. >> In two short years GWB will be gone. And whoever replaces him from the >> Demos or Repubs will be just as bad. Different, but just as bad. > > That is hard for me to imagine. I think that, at least over the short > term, Americans can learn. Can you point to *any* empirical evidence of this - on any scale large enough to matter? Michael _______________________________________________ [email protected] Unsub/Pause/Etc : http://mail.linux-sxs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general
