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On Sep 17, 8:38 pm, Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> no fuzz around.
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> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Jim Willis <
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> > Gee, how can they be talking points when I wrote them. Let me know
> > when you have an intelligent thought.
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> > On Sep 17, 8:26 pm, VT Sean Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Let me know when you have some serious solutions with
> > > steps to implement and not far right conspiracy theory
> > > type talking points.
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> > > On Sep 17, 8:56 pm, Jim Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > wrote:
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> > > > 1.Since Fannie and Freddie has been introduced to the American
> > > > vernacular let's start here. The government needs to get out of the
> > > > mortgage business, once and for all. Both of these companies have been
> > > > suckling at the teat of bloated federal plutocracies far too long.
> > > > Fannie and Freddie need to be broken into a thousand pieces and
> > > > privatized. The federal government should have no attachment or
> > > > responsibility. And, the bailing out ends now, for good.
> > > > 2.In promised entitlements our government is indebted $57 Trillion
> > > > dollars. If not dealt with, it will destroy our country. Since
> > > > government has proven that they are incapable of running anything…
> > > > Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid should be privatized. The
> > > > switch to privatization will be costly and take time to implement. To
> > > > cover the initial cost increases see solution three.
> > > > 3.There are far too many people in this country who have chosen to
> > > > ride in the wagon while too few of us are pulling. Our tax policy
> > > > rewards failure and punishes success guaranteeing less of one and more
> > > > of the other. We should institute the, "Fair Tax" which abolishes the
> > > > IRS and incorporates a federal sales tax instead of a payroll tax.
> > > > With the fair tax, the burden is shared and pimps, hookers and drug
> > > > dealers will finally carry their share of financing our federal
> > > > government. Just maybe, with everyone pulling the wagon and sharing
> > > > the burden, those not paying attention to federal spending might start
> > > > doing so. Forty percent of Americans pay no federal tax yet take
> > > > advantage of a great and greater share of our services.
> > > > 4.Stop corporate pillaging, called the Breck girl law. Corporations
> > > > spend billions of dollars each year defending themselves from John
> > > > Edwards and the trial lawyers. A recent study found most of the
> > > > plaintiff suits to be unworthy of litigation. The most egregious
> > > > caveat of these suits is punitive damages. Compensatory damages
> > > > compensate a plaintiff for any loss of earnings, medical bills or even
> > > > the loss of life. Punitive damages are a punishment to a corporation.
> > > > Yet, the corporation is not punished, the shareholders are, the actual
> > > > owners who had nothing to do with the original wrong. Settlements
> > > > should be limited to compensatory damages only.
> > > > 5.As long as we are speaking of lawyers let's right another wrong of
> > > > jurisprudence. I've had it with perps across the fruited plain
> > > > escaping punishment because their rights were violated. This is the
> > > > dumbest ruling ever to come out of the United States Supreme Court.
> > > > It's known as fruit of the poisonous tree. Look, if some child rapist
> > > > has his rights violated by some flatfoot in Podunk Louisiana then
> > > > punish the damn cop. The raped child violated no ones rights, the cop
> > > > did, punish him and lynch the rapist. The fact that his rights may
> > > > have been violated does not affect his guilt or innocence.
> > > > 6.Drill for oil everywhere. Let's start by drilling through Harry
> > > > Reid's head, though I doubt we'd find anything. We have enough natural
> > > > resources in this country, and off our shores to make $2 dollar gas
> > > > plentiful for the next three hundred years. Standing in the way of
> > > > this are Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Energy is the engine of our
> > > > economy and must be secured at a reasonable price. So, first we drill
> > > > through Harry and Nancy's head and then we put oil derricks in the
> > > > well of the senate and the house.
> > > > 7.In a massive, "Manhattan project like" energy solution we approve
> > > > licenses for 500 additional nuclear power plants. This will create
> > > > millions of jobs while helping to make us energy independent. And, we
> > > > should insist that they are breeder reactors allowing us to use the
> > > > spent fissionable waste over and over. We shouldn't stop building
> > > > until America has that fluorescing green glow. Now that's going green!
> > > > 8.We should stop pussyfooting with countries who have sworn to destroy
> > > > us. Iran has threatened to annihilate Israel and the United States.
> > > > They are currently building nuclear weapons to do so. What in the hell
> > > > are we waiting for? We should squash these little pissants like the
> > > > bugs they are. How do you negotiate with those animals intent on your
> > > > destruction and are building weapons to do so?
> > > > 9.In Chicago, just recently, a teacher was caught on film, not
> > > > teaching but robbing a bank at gunpoint. Because of the teachers union
> > > > this extra curricular activity was punished by removing the teacher
> > > > from the classroom and giving him a much higher paying job in
> > > > educational administration. In some cities we are spending as much as
> > > > $25 thousand dollars per student, per year, only to have a drop out
> > > > rate of more than fifty percent. Education must be privatized and the
> > > > teachers union emasculated. Hey, aren't liberal always harping on,
> > > > "the children"? If they really cared, many teachers and union leaders
> > > > would be hanging in our town squares.
> > > > 10.The federal government needs to get back to enumerated powers,
> > > > those authorities given to them by our constitution. The federal
> > > > government enjoys the constitutional ability to provide for a common
> > > > defense, print a national currency and settle disputes between the
> > > > states in the area of commerce, PERIOD. {emphasis mine} The tenth
> > > > amendment provides, "The powers not delegated to the United States by
> > > > the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to
> > > > the States respectively, or to the people. Simply put; if powers are
> > > > not within the text of our constitution then they don't exist. The
> > > > federal government has their respective fingers in every pie and we
> > > > the people need to cut them off and remind them of our founders'
> > > > intent. After all, if we don't do it, who will?
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> > > > Conservative Springfield 18 Sep 08
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