Like Father Like Daughter

Seems like all that time hanging around dad is paying off, Chelsea Clinton's love interest is a former White House Intern. LOL

Wondering how long before Chelsea shows an interest in cuban cigars?

[htismaqe]

Clint,

Don't take this (too) personal, but you are a very difficult person to debate with.

I just posted a dialogue that does nothing but address the "dizzying array" of ststistics and you accuse me of ignoring them ~ and then say that this is typical for me.

Luz
what planet do you live on?

[redbrian]

Do you really think that this election will significantly change the daily lives of average Americans? I for one do not.

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[redbrian]

Do you really think that this election will significantly change the daily lives of average Americans? I for one do not.

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[scooter]

On the contrary Clint, this election greatly effects the daily lives of all.

The next president will probably nominate 3 or more Supreme Court judges. They are the final arbiters in our system and they serve for life. We can have a conservative Court or a liberal one depending on who wins. We've seen a liberal one in action and it took us decades to recover from it. In some ways, we still haven't.

Also, depending on who wins we can either continue our march towards socialism and veer back towards liberty and capitalism.

This election matters [b]very[/b] much.

[redbrian]

The last election didn't noticeably affect me at all.

BTW, this country has been somewhat socialist for decades, and I think it's a necessity.

How do you rebuild the military and cut taxes at the same time? Exponentially increase the national debt, I guess.

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[htismaqe]

To answer your previous question about the difference in Clinton not getting credit for the US economy and Bush getting credit for the Texas economy, do you really want to know? I get the feeling that you could really care less and just throw around (irresponcible) remarks like this just to flame people.

In the off chance that you really want to know the answer, I'll explain.

The simplified version (I don't want to be typing forever): Alan Greenspan is in charge of protecting the value of our money. Clinton (for the US) and Bush (for Texas) have no control over this.

A President CAN slow the economy by placing excess regulation and taxation on industry (and Clinton has tried to do this), but fortunately, we have a Congress that won't allow this to happen.

This is the same playing field that every Governor plays on. Bush (and I have to begrudgingly give some credit to the Democratic Governor Ann Richards) have pulled Texas far ahead of the rest of the country by making Texas a place friendly to business. In other words, creating an environment without excessive State regulation and taxation (for example: we have no State Income Tax here!).

Hence, the State economy prospers and EVERYONE has a job, higher wages because of the cometition, etc.

Luz
this is reality...

[scooter]

*sigh*

I see another edition of 'correcting the re-writting of Reagan' is in order.

Reagan cut taxes and rebuilt the military. He did not blow the budget to do it. Under Reagan, revenue increased every year after the first two. The first two were recession years caused by cleaning up the mess that Carter left.

The reason the deficit exploded, despite increasing revenues, is due to the demo controlled Congress. Rather than keeping their promise to peg spending to inflation, they spent at a rate twice that of revenue. They also threw out the Reagan budgets every year and created their own, usually at the last minute.

If the demos in Congress had simply kept their promise to reign in spending and allowed Reagan to keep to the budgets he submitted the debt would never have happened.

By contrast, the reason we have surplusses now, is because the GOP Congress has refused to pass some of Slick Willy's more outrageous spending plans. Sadly however, they've subsitutied a few of their own.

[scooter]

Yes we have been socialist for decades. That is a sad condemnation on us. Some of it was reversed in the 80's but sadly not enough.

Will Bush continue the reversal? I don't know. I do know the Algore will continue it with a vengence. Make no mistake that socialized medicine and gun confiscation are high on his list.

[htismaqe]

ck_IN,

Well thought out, and well said.

Luz
hearing a voice of reason...

[scooter]

Bill, why do these conversations all seem to familiar? It seems you and I argued this same topic at least 5 times on the other board.

[htismaqe]

It probably would save time to just save our posts and use them over and over.

Luz
admitting, however, that he enjoys politics...

[Traveller]

Slightly OT, but I found the following editorial from one of our national newspapers here in Canada kind of amusing:
[url="http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20000907/391829.html"]http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20000907/391829.html[/url]

At least it's amusing if you're a conservative.

Kokanee
(...it's also anti-Whitlock, sort-of...) <BR>

[scooter]

Good article Kokanee. It just furthers my belief that the media has ceased in being the 4th estate and become a wholly owned subsidary of the DNC.

[redbrian]

I guess the DNP made a wise purchase, then.

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[scooter]

Think of it more in terms of prositution Clint. The analogy would be more acurate.