mnottertail
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ORIGINAL: Phydeaux I happen to agree with you about the issues at the FDA. Bigger than the issues you mentioned in my mind were the hiring of the Monsanto guy. As for the rest of it- I'm pro clean air; pro environment; anti big government; anti entitlement (corporate or individual). I'm pro-life; anti deficit financing; anti-gmo. Anti-H1B's; pro-immigrant (strongy); anti illegal immigrant(strongly). Anti corruption - which means I'm strongly anti union and anti democrat at the moment. Pro christian; You can do what you want to your body but that doesn't change your sex. Anti political correctness, anti-reparations. I'd like racism to get cleaned up in sentencing, believe we should reduce the numbers of people in jail by having more choices than jail for criminal offenses. Pro tort reform. Pro fusion. Pro fission. Anti solar/wind because they are job killers and increase pollution by exporting jobs to china. I believe that trade bills should be renegotiated; big corporations (and big banks) should be smaller. So should unions. I believe in profit sharing for employees. And term limits for govt parasites. One of the difficulties of 4 year administrations and a 6 year term is the short sightedness of the whole deal, something that was bemoaned by more than 1 or 2 of the founding fathers. So, when casting about for administration offices, the simpletonian and expedient view becomes .......gee, who's an expert in the stock market? Joe Kennedy, he raped everyone, he is good, boy....OK, put him in charge of the SEC....ad nauseam. And dealing with that you eventually always get the fox watching the chicken coop, because the president and the legislature, and the judiciary cannot or will not see everything that goes on, the focus is not always everywhere at once. Phydeaux, I will say that I agree with about half or a little more of your post. there are some things you posted here I am dead set against, but......someday, compromise for reasonable people, with reasonable prescriptions, regardless of the machinery under which these principles operate will again come into vogue. I agree with you about the problems of a 4 / 6 year administration. Agree that short term compensation packages skew wall street compensation packages also. I think current election law serves to protect current office holders and raise the bar against admission, which in turn increases the value of lobbyists. One of my idea of reforms would be giving certain powers to the party that is out of power. For example - if the democrats were in power - all the inspector generals would be appointed by republicans (or other parties). Perhaps franking privileges would be suspended for incumbents within 3 months of an election; competitors would be funded to the same level by the public as incumbents. Thank you for a reasonable post mnotter. If I were ever to run for office - it would be on the basis of exactly what you just said. There are enough things that all americans can agree on - to work on those together - and put off the things that we don't agree on till later. You probably don't agree on my position on global warming - thats fine. But we can both agree that flaring gas needs to be reduced. You won't agree with my positions on unions -but we can agree that we unions can do a good job training people for vocations - such as electrians, HVAC, carpentry. Etc. It is far easiier to demonzie your opponents than it is to build consensus. It would be my hope that in the future you and I can use our brains to find better common solutions. We won't always agree - but for my part, I will try to do so respectfully. Phy Look, on that one issue...flaring gas, there is no issue far as I am concerned, I am a conservative, boys, if you cant get it out of the ground in good order, fuck you and period. let us sit down and reason together. I'm a dad, and a grandad, never thought I would be here and you are younger than I , but might go so far as grandad, and I really dont need shit in life, I am fine, and as a conservative what do I leave for my children to enjoy the life and OPPORTUNITY I HAVE had? Perhaps they can do better with natual gas than I have, I know they are smart motherfuckers, and I shouldnt just flare the shit off cuz I cant use it, to get at what I can, I need to conserve the shit around me for others to have an equal opportunity. No libertarian communist shit in my bones, there was no document ..I the People. in real and factual disagreement, you and I aint a fucking jack off spot on the carbuncle of life. Yet, we both want our kids to grow up with the same OPPORTUNITY we had, and fucked up. They have a right to exist. If your freedom is to use the shit up of everyting just because you can and fuck our decendants, that aint conservative and that aint republican. I have no problem, whatsoever with From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs, which did not originate with marx nor does it mean what most people think.. I am going to quit right here..
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Have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two? Judges 5:30
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