[QUOTE=jbird;21718]For better or worse there are several examples in this hemisphere: Dominican Republic, Grenada, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Maybe Panamá.Originally Posted by aka pumpmaster
[QUOTE=jbird;21718]For better or worse there are several examples in this hemisphere: Dominican Republic, Grenada, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. Maybe Panamá.
[QUOTE=eastcoastgilson;21720]Establishing "democracy" in other nations has not always worked out the way we wanted... one only need to review 20 years of history from Northern Africa through Southeast Asia. This is great irony of the activist, internationalist neo-conservatism movement.
Obama has bodysurfed Sandy's. That counts for something towards being a wave rider. I'd attempt some tandem riding with SarahMcCain might just stick to SUP boarding. I don't want to picture Biden bodyboarding Dumps.
Yea i know, i was generalizing because people think McCain's threats to veto every piece of legislation that has pork in it shows some kind of bravado. I just wanted to point out that this claim is not based in rational thought because of checks and balances, and how important pork has become in getting money to the states. You actually added to my argument because yes the president can add his/her own pork.
Pork can be whatever you interpret it to be. What is pork to you might be beef to me, or chickenfeed or manure. Earmarks that slip into bills late in the process is politics, for better or worse, and you will probably like or dislike any specific earmark depending on any given day. Nonetheless, these earmarks are generally a very small portion of the overall budget. Should these earmarks be subject to full transparency and debate. Probably. However, signing up to a Pay-Go policy for all bills would be much more effective as demonstrated during the last 10 years or so of the last century. Pay-Go fell apart early in the Bush administration when increasing the debt became a "good thing to do." Sorry to digress, but I would like to see the federal budget broken into operating and capital accounts and to limit borrowing to capital investments.
Please define what you mean by born in the us. Do you mean in a state of the USA?
No!!! I am a full-on free market wave capitalist. I do NOT want to spread the wealth in the waves!!!You've worked extremely hard to pay your dues - surfing. You now have the strength, stamina and confidence to paddle out through thick overhead beachbreak barrels and score 25 - 30 waves in a three hour session. But you're getting way more than your share! While you're scoring a wave every six minutes, some other surfers who are not as strong or fit are having to wait 30 minutes or more between waves. Gee, wouldn't it be better for all if we spread the wealth/waves and awarded 20 of your hard-earned waves to your fellow surfers? Wouldn't that make it a better world?
For what it is worth, this "socialist program" was signed into law in 1975 (Ford administration), the initially modest EIC has been expanded by tax legislation on a number of occasions, including the more widely-publicized Reagan EIC expansion of 1986. Models socialists these two!
One of my good friends is a vociferous neo-con/libertarian (he kinda goes back and forth between the two). He was fiercely anti-immigration and wanted to throw all the illegal immigrants out.... until he built his new house.
Rob Machado for President!! And Donavon Frankenreiter can be his VP. They would be an unstoppable duo... every campaign event would be stylish with some awesome music.
And I think they would have a pretty good shot at beating Palin if she were to run in the near future!
Just a thought.
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