Saturday, September 10, 2011

Winston-Salem Journal LTE's SA 09/10/11

Good AM, folks!

Typical
Dismissing Keynesian theory-driven demand stimulation as so much claptrap, John Hood's Sept. 4 column, "North Carolina's steep climb ahead," repeats yet again the typical Republican theme of trickle-down economic policies as being the answer to our current lingering economic doldrums, despite the fact that analysis of every economic recovery since 1935 demonstrates that fiscal policies based upon Keynesian theory appear to be spot on.

Once again, we are shown that GOP really stands for Greed Over People.



JAMES McGRATH
Yadkinville

Beautiful
Salem Lake's dam is being rebuilt and the water is low, so the lake has changed significantly. I believe it has become one of the loveliest places to visit in Forsyth County. The grasses and other plants are lush and bountiful, and the wildlife seems more abundant.

Concentrated bird groups are easy to enjoy as they feed and rest on sandbars and in shallows. An abundance of turtles are always sunning themselves on floating logs. The lake changes from pond to stream to small lake in the course of a 7-mile loop.

Beautiful! And worth a visit.



LISHA MEJAN
Winston-Salem

Two controversial issues
Recently the Journal has had a number of news articles, editorials and letters to the editor about two controversial issues: North Carolina's forced-sterilization program and the proposed anti-gay-marriage constitutional amendment.

It is amazing how similar these two issues are. Both deprive a minority of basic individual rights; both show the strong arm of government against individuals; and both reflect malice and attitudes that run counter to the soul of America and our commitment to equality and fair play.

We claim that America is "the land of the free and the home of the brave." Why should gays and lesbians not be free to marry? Can North Carolina voters be brave and stand up for individual rights and against mob rule? With hope, Tarheels will vote for democracy and against totalitarian controls.

The only winners in these two issues are self-serving politicians seeking any means to bring out their base to get elected.



MICHAEL NEWMAN
Winston-Salem

Renaissance man
When I read a letter like "No pseudoscience" (Sept. 3) I always hear the Yogi Bear theme song with slightly altered words: "Because I'm smarter than the average bear."

I'm likely one of the ignoramuses she decries, but I can't imagine that I will cast my vote for president based on what the candidate believes about evolution. That, I think, would be religious discrimination.

She wants someone versed in science, technology, economics, history, civics, philosophy and the arts (note the total absence of any religious viewpoint). Geez! A Renaissance man may be right up there with Superman, but I do not know why that would make him a good president or a knowledgeable leader.



ROMAINE POINDEXTER
Kernersville

55 comments:

  1. LTE1: Keynesian economics may indeed work, up to a point. Keynesians like Paul Krugman cite Depression-era programs and WW2 as public works programs that let us borrow and spend our way out of economic calamity.

    What is not mentioned is that in addition to spending money on roads, dams, and war materiel, we put millions of people into very low-paying jobs, and removed them from the consumer economy by shipping them overseas. We sharply cut consumer goods production. Between sending our people out of the domestic economy and cutting access to consumer goods, we enforced savings. Sending millions of people overseas while enforcing savings is not an available option.

    That said, some more pump priming is probably needed. But, that must not be perverted into payoffs for President Obama's union patrons. Thus, written into his jobs bill should be a repeal of Davis-Bacon, an outright ban on card check, an end to the NLRB's suit against Boeing, a promise from Obama not to recess appoint Craig Becker to the NLRB, and a ban on project labor agreements that require or recommend the use of union hiring halls. All of these requirements will lead to a more efficient economy, and better protect employee and business rights.

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  2. LTE2: Nice to hear about this. I will take Mrs. Stab there.

    LTE3: I agree re forced sterilization and gay marriage, but note that violations of individual rights and mob rule is not confined to the Right. The union violence in Longview WA and the Obama Administration's efforts to enable unions to intimidate people into membership and to deny a business the right to operate in a particular state is evidence that the Left is at least equally averse to freedom.

    LTE4: Not believing in evolution is not believing in a scientifically established fact. Voting for someone who disbelieves in facts is illogical. Voting for someone based on displays of piety is misguided. Most Presidents attend church, including dishonest Nixon, and serial adulterers Kennedy and Clinton.

    I don't understand how a well-educated and well-rounded person would not be "knowledgable." I am a member of a "mainstream" Protestant church, attend weekly, and take part in church activities. Nonetheless, I would be more comfortable with a Renaissance man in the WH than a Bible-thumping ignoramus.

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  3. A left wing, radical, Democratic protester, who also happens to be a member of the WS/FC School Board, was arrested yesterday in Washington D.C. Her name is Elizabeth Motsinger in case you want to know who not to vote for in the next school board election.

    Ms. Motsinger is a classic liberal. Yes, she wants to allow millions upon millions of illegals to come into our country, but she doesn't want us to be able to buy gas at a reasonable price in order to go to our jobs, and care or our families.

    You see, she wants to stop the oil pipeline coming from Canada which would allow us to be able to get oil, and thus, gas quickly and easily, while we await the development of alternative fuels.

    Instead of writing letters, and protesting in a professional manner, she took her body up to Washington and got arrested. Niiiiiiiiiice!

    I'm sure she'll serve as a fine example for all the budding young, radical, liberal, Democrats out there currently attending school in the WS/FC School System.

    It's too bad they didn't keep her for a while.

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  4. Good morning Stab, sorry I'm a bit off topic. I thought it worth mentioning the arrest of one our school board members.

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  5. Lte1...Keynesian economics is always analyzed to be correct...when analysis is done by Keynesian economists. John M. Keynes won favor throughout the western world because his brand of political economics empowered the Statist. The Austrian School of economics warned against the power of Statists. The Lte writer, like most in government, fail to recognise that we are in the latter stages of a financial collapse which began with an explosion of over priced and over leveraged real estate. This recession is not the typical imbalance between production and consumption. Nor is this collapse over with.

    The tiresome old line of trickle down economics harming the poor is worn out. What is harming the poor is a steady flow of more and more dollars from the Fed which eats away at the buying power of existing dollars. We have rock bottom interest rates to entice more debt by anyone who is willing. At the same time, the people who need a decent return on their savings-seniors- can't earn anything.

    Let our Keynesian government print more dollars until the dollar bubble bursts. Life as we have known it will change drastically.

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  6. WW....what got you off the beaten path to the Portland, Oregon TV station website? The union riot? You should know the national news media is not going to cover anything that will adversely affect Obama's chance for reelection.

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  7. Lte2...Salem Lake dam is being rebuilt and the water is low? Where I see the lake, the water is gone.

    Lte3...politics is about getting the base out to vote. When one base is energized, the other base usually is too.

    Lte4...by the time Nov 2012 rolls around and our economy is no better and maybe worse, voters won't care about all those other matters. The newly elected president might dance drunk and naked with a horse in the street, he might be a snake handler and speak in tongues. He might even wear white socks with black wing tip shoes. Mr Obama must be defeated.

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  8. WW ...I was stunned by this article. You should take a look at it. I think even you will be surprised. It talks about the wealth distribution in the U.S.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20102289-503544.html?tag=stack

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  9. Bucky...like most here, I read a number of blogs on different matters. I picked up the story from Instapundit.com I believe. The story is out there now and it won't take long. Same with the gun runner story re the ATF and Mexico. A cover up is still a cover up even if major media tries to ignore it. The union riot verifies one fact among many: the Left does not play well on video.

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  10. Bucky..wealth distribution talk there or anywhere is not surprising. It makes for good copy among some. Wealth distribution is easy to talk about After it has been earned. What is uncomfortable for some of these same folks to ponder is the lack of opportunity to create it by poorer folk, largely because of run amuck government social/economic policy.

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  11. Pipeline = Very short term dirty attempt at a solution for very short-sighted people.

    Good for you Elizabeth. Standing up. Let the peanut gallery grumble. You've got my vote.

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  12. whitewall....I've become so cynical with Obama in the White House that I'm not even sure if the data is correct on wealth in America. This is especially true since the liberal, national media (CBS) seems hell bent on reelecting one of the worse presidents we've ever had, save Jimmy Carter.

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  13. AJV....you rascal...I'm being to believe we won't agree on anything.

    I still like your picture though.

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  14. Good AM, WW, Bucky, AJV!

    No problem re off-topic news post, Bucky. Her left-wing stand on America's energy situation is one thing, but how does Mrs. Motsinger stand on issues pertinent to the school board?

    As for her being arrested, I don't really care about that. Being arrested while conducting civil disobedience is a leftist sacrament, shows how orthodox they are. Years ago, they performed this sacrament outside the South African embassy to show how correct-minded they were about apartheid.

    Actually, they were correct in opposing vile arpartheid, but somehow overlooked the fact that the government of a nearby embassy, that of the Soviet Union, practiced similar oppressive practices by cutting out the majority of its population for the benefit of a very few, and far more oppressively. But, leftists will forgive collectivist regimes almost any injustice.

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  15. Let's not go knocking civil disobedience. Without the "leftists" as you call them and their civil disobedience, we might still be a British colony, black people in this country would still be drinking out of "colored only" fountains and the Vietnamese conflict would probably still be going on.

    Having participated in the last two of those and seeing how important they were, I support everyone's right to demonstrate, whether I agree with their cause or not.

    It is a shame that we have not seen massive demonstrations against the two Cheney wars and against the Patriot Act. I will take some of the blame for that through sheer laziness. I guess our young people are too busy texting and playing computer games to pay attention to what is going on around them.

    When you start calling demonstrators names, you sink to the level of Bull Connor, or even worse, the Bucky level. At least we can easily ignore him because he is simply ignorant.

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  16. Stab, I believe thou generalizeth too much. And probably exagerateth a bit as well.

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  17. we are all Quakers now?

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  18. "Exaggerateth" is difficult to spell. May be if we had a rule that all comments had to be couched in faux Quaker, we could get rid of some of the chaff.

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  19. Hi OT,

    I was pointing out the selective vision of the demonstrators. The RSA economically and politically oppressed about 2/3 of its population for the benefit of the other 1/3. The USSR economically and politically oppressed 97% of its far larger population for the benefit of the other 3%, aka the nomenklatura, while also exporting its sick ideology.

    I'm not sure that I would call the civilly disobedient colonists leftists, as they appear to have sought INDIVIDUAL economic self-determination and freedom from oppressive taxation, neither being an apparent goal of the modern-day left.

    AS for the civil rights movement, yes primarily populated by liberals/leftists. I note that moderate Republicans were necessary to pass the civil rights act.

    AJV: perhaps a bit hyperbolic, but being civilly disobedient in the US when the target is oppression by another government thousands of miles away is simply posturing.

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  20. OT, thy suggestion interesteth me. I agree-eth re the chaff. The site could standeth more courtly language at times.

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  21. Well, don't get too interested...my brain already straineth enough.

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  22. Since the terms "left" and "right" spring from the French Revolution, political scientists and students of political history tend to see revolution as coming from the left, while reactionaries are of the right.

    And indeed, our revolution fits the model for that terminology. Today, both terms are nearly meaningless except within the narrow world of political science, just as the terms liberal and conservative as used on this and other forums no longer have any meaning.

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  23. So, we had righthanders who opposed collectivism cheering on lefthanders in Moscow who opposed collectivism. And people have difficulties understanding quantum physic's wave-particle duality. What a world.

    As for the gentle Quaker writing style, I discontinueth it now.

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  24. "So, we had righthanders who opposed collectivism cheering on lefthanders in Moscow who opposed collectivism. And people have difficulties understanding quantum physic's wave-particle duality. What a world."

    After thinking that over for a while, my answer is going to be yes, that's about it. It doesn't make any sense, because people do not make sense.

    For instance, why, every time I watch the sun come up at the Grand Canyon, do I find myself surrounded by weeping people? It is one of the most beautiful things in nature, so why aren't the people jumping for joy and laughing.

    Those same people, confronted by something truly horrible, will often laugh. Doesn't make any sense, but that is what makes us human.

    Quantum physic's wave-particle duality is actually very simple compared to a single human mind, and we all have a better chance of understanding the physics than we do the person that we know and love best.

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  25. "For instance, why, every time I watch the sun come up at the Grand Canyon, do I find myself surrounded by weeping people? It is one of the most beautiful things in nature, so why aren't the people jumping for joy and laughing."

    ---Kitty Kat

    I keep expecting my Cuckoo Clock to go off when I read some of the 'Kat's' posts aloud.

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    Kitty Kat.....since you are so smart why don't you tell us about the Patriot Act, and how terrible it is for all Americans. You nit wit.

    I wish you'd get something right! Jeez.

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  26. A real political scientist would never refer to a PERSON as a liberal or conservative. A person might have liberal or conservative ideas or inclinations, but for most people those ideas and inclinations spread across the spectrum too much to be applied to an individual.

    For instance, I and many of my friends tend to embrace fairly conservative ideas when it comes to money, while embracing more liberal ideas on the social side. So I guess we are conservative/liberals, the absurdity of which, of course, makes my point.

    I am always amused by polls in which people are asked to describe their degree of liberality or conservatism. An intelligent, educated person could have only one answer…none of the above. But people do natter on, not realizing that unless they are comparing their ideas and inclinations to meaningful definitions of conservative and liberal, their answers are irrelevant, thus the polls are as well.

    Studies have shown that the vast majority of Americans are located almost dead center on the political spectrum, with just a tiny lean to the right side. This accounts, at least in part, for the swings back and forth from election to election. Contrary to the wisdom of the talking heads, that has not changed in any measurable way in the last century.

    Our polarized Congress does not in any way reflect the thinking of the citizens, which explains Congress’s current job approval rating of 12.3%, the worst since polling began.

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  27. Welcome aboard Fam. I'm the resident bad boy in here. You'll find that most of the people in here tilt heavily to the left, and I tilt to the right just a bit.

    The reason Congress has such a low rating is because they never stick to the most important issues facing us like Jobs, Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare. They always seem to get off onto the unbeaten paths like gay marriage and abortion. Most people don't really care about those things too much. They DO care about health care and their money, however.

    Again, welcome aboard, and hang on. No matter what you say, somebody will have something to say about it.

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  28. "No matter what you say, somebody will have something to say about it." --Bucky

    Bucky, isn't that the purpose of a forum like this?

    Fam: Welcome indeed to such an articulate poster, Fam. Bucky is correct: we do have some liberally oriented posters, but rightward and centrist leanings are represented as well. Actually, I exhibit the centrist residence with rightward tendencies you describe above. But, I move away from so-called conservatives on gay marriage, affirmative action (to a point), and global warming. Welcome to the fray.

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  29. Fam:

    I think that what LindseyGraham/LindsayGraham/BarneyFrank/Jose Perez/Knothead/Doc/CholoHouse MIGHT mean is that HE will have something to say about it . . .

    (. . . wait for it . . . wait for it . . .)

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  30. O.T.: the human body is the most complex known structure in the universe, so your point re understanding humans v. wave-particle duality is well-taken.

    As for the seemingly incongruous responses to stimuli (crying at sunsets, laughing at tragedy), apparently some emotions are similar in their biochemistry. Also, I have read that laughter is thought to have evolved from some defensive reflex. However, I believe your education is in some discipline related to psychology, so you may inform that I know not whereof I speak or think I have read.

    Re wave-particle duality: as you know, a photon will interfere with itself in the famous double slit experiment, which is startling since that means the photon is in two separate places at once. Physicists also made an electron interfere with itself, then a molecule, and later, a fullerene.

    You know that a fullerene is a carbon molecular construct, spherical versions of which resemble the geodesic domes designed by Buckminster Fuller. And I'm sure you know what spherical fullerenes are also called: buckyballs.

    :D

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  31. Hello, LaSombra!

    I did indeed watch "United 93" last night. It was as moving as the first time.

    It is very sad that we didn't use the atrocity we commemorate tomorrow to come together, as we did after Pearl Harbor. Instead, we moved further apart. I regret I have been a small part of the polarization, though have been working to try to be a "depolarizer." However, there are some principles that don't lend themselves to dilution.

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  32. Hmm, I wish I could have stuck around longer this afternoon. Good exchanges. I believe our friend O.T. might have Friends in his past. He seems to be a "weighty Friend".

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  33. OT, you need to break up your 10:12 post. It's not showing up.

    When you split it, be sure and make fun of me, as I went for it hook, line, and sinker.

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  34. WW is most perceptive. I grew up in the Moravian culture, the oldest of the Protestant ones, and began my higher education at one of the best colleges in the country, Haverford College on the Philadelphia Main Line, founded by Quakers in 1833.

    Just as Davidson does not attempt to convert their students to Presbyterianism and Duke does not do likewise with Methodism, Haverford is a totally secular school, but the tradition of learning and debate is based upon the Quaker philosophy.

    Their thinking is much like that of our Founding Fathers, which is that pure Democracy has the unfortunate effect of imposing the will of the majority on the minority, even if the actual vote is only 51-49%. Inevitably, that sort of process produces many unhappy losers who will do their best to sabotage the result.

    In the Quaker world, decisions are made by consensus, which is much harder, because no result can be obtained until everyone agrees to that result.

    Of course, that requires compromise, which may dilute the result a bit, but ensures that extreme decisions are avoided, and more importantly, that everyone involved has a stake in the success of whatever is being considered.

    The best example of this process in American history is that by which our Constitution was created. There were widely divergent opinions amongst those who participated, the best example being the business of slavery and the clause that allowed importation of slaves to continue until 1808. But in the end, they all signed off on it, because they knew that they had created something extraordinary.

    That Quaker method of thinking has been the most important influence on my life.

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  35. Stab informs me that an earlier post exceeded the character limit, so I broke it into two parts:

    Well, our little socio-psychological-political experiment worked about as we expected. I must apologize to the thoughtful posters here for the deception, but it proved our point.

    The post by "fam" was actually written by me. "Fam" is a real person, one of my best friends for a very long time. For several very good reasons he does not normally post comments anywhere on controversial topics. But we were having a laugh today over "Bucky's" most recent nonsensical posts:

    "I keep expecting my Cuckoo Clock to go off when I read some of the 'Kat's' posts aloud.
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    Kitty Kat.....since you are so smart why don't you tell us about the Patriot Act, and how terrible it is for all Americans. You nit wit.

    I wish you'd get something right! Jeez. "

    See his post above. My friend suggested that we post a normal comment by me under his name to see if "Bucky" would respond in the same way. Of course, he didn't, treating "Fam's" post in a quite different manner, even though it was my same sort of "nit wit" post.

    To be fair, we were very careful to keep my usual linguistic quirks IN the post: "For instance…" , "So I guess…", "…absurdity…", "…of course…", "I am always amused" (a dead giveaway), "…intelligent educated person…", "…natter…", "…irrelevant…", "…talking heads…", etc., because we knew from "Bucky's" inability to tell the difference between my writing style and that of Kit's (the passion of which I miss), that even given obvious clues he would not detect the deception.

    Of course (quirk), he fell for it beyond our wildest dreams, coming on as the official welcoming committee to the site, sucking up to the "newby" and portraying himself as important (I'm the resident bad boy in here.), while instructing the newby on correct thinking (Most people don't really care about those things too much.) Really? (Another quirk)

    And of course he tried to recruit an ally by making common cause (…and hang on. No matter what you say, somebody will have something to say about it.), meaning I am poor browbeaten "Bucky" and you will be too.

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  36. OT, Fam wouldn't be the gent who has written histories of this area, would he?

    BTW, I took the political compass test you cited in your as yet unposted second half, found myself pretty much in the center, but (gasp) -1.25 on the "x" axis (to the left!), and -2.56 on the "y" axis (liberarian). I sure hope my family doesn't find out :)

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  37. OT:

    OMG, did I fall for your rouse! I thought it out of the ordinary that "Fam" would join us all of a sudden. But you know what, a "liberal" is all-inclusive. I feel duped now, but oh well. I'm over it.

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  38. Re Political Compass: I looked over the site, noted test on quotes from political "icons" (grimace), observe that corporations tend to receive scrutiny, not one peep re organized labor. Methinks if the test I took had one mention of unions, I would have strongly tilted back to the right, about dead center.

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  39. Yes Stab, that would be the man. We are trying to figure out a way to copy his brain to a hard disk or something because once he is gone (usually, according to him, that will be next week), so much local history will be lost.

    Via long association and many crazy road trips with him, I have absorbed an awful lot of local history as well, to the point that people often say "Wow, you know a lot of stuff!" I have to say to them, "You have no idea. I am a mere neophyte. You need to meet my friend, the walking encyclopedia."

    Of course, he attributes much of his knowledge to earlier walking encyclopedias who shared their knowledge with him, people such as Bill East, John Fries Blair, the architect Luther Lashmit and Robert Neilson, who wrote an extraordinary 2 volume history of local government, most of which can be found online at the City of Winston-Salem site.

    And he was a pioneer in local black history, spending many hours with the legendary brick maker George Black, who could accurately recall almost any incident from say 1890 on into the 1930s, and Joe Bradshaw, who took him on many walking excursions through East Winston, literally reciting the history of this building or that block on command, and Blanche Morgan Hobson, whose father often passed for white when out of town and who was among the founders of the Safe Bus Company, in its time the largest black owned business in the South.

    His greatest regret is that he did not put all of these interviews and conversations on film for posterity. He was a mere stripling at the time so had no idea what he was doing, so I forgive him, but he does not.

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  40. Stab:
    I agree with you re dilution. I also find it sad that the fanaticism of the terrorists of 9/11/01 will not be a lesson learned by our left/right politicos.

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  41. Good evening, LaSombra. I in turn agree with you.

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  42. Belated wave to WW: good shot on discerning OT's Friendly origins. And yes, a good discussion today.

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  43. Stab - I warned you that you might be surprised at the result of "the test". So was I...especially at my "leftism" score. I was NOT surprised at my anti-authoritarianism position. I don't like the government telling me what I can and cannot do, and I am certain that that puts me directly in line with Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Franklin.

    To me, Franklin summed up everything in three simple lines:

    “Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”

    “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”

    “To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”

    He, a sufferer from gout, certainly knew a great deal about that last one.

    Knowing you, I knew that unions would come up sooner or later. The reason that unions are not important in the test is simple.

    Unions contribute a great deal to elections, so have considerable influence over WHO gets elected. But political scientists are well aware of how LAWS get passed, via lobbying, on which the US Chamber of Commerce and corporations outspend unions by somewhere between 10 and 100 to one.

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  44. Interesting dautm re elections v. lobbying. Changes my outlook about oppressive unions not one whit, but now (sigh) I must attend lobbying.

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  45. La Sombra

    "I also find it sad that the fanaticism of the terrorists of 9/11/01 will not be a lesson learned by our left/right politicos."

    Excellent observation. We have spent billions, if not trillions on the "War on Terrorism" over the last 10 years. In the last few weeks we have spent even more trying to ensure that another act of terrorism will not occur on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

    What the government does not understand is that all of the above means that the terrorists "won" the war on 9/11, 2001.

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  46. Stab - one thing I have learned in my far too lengthy life (I'm not complaining mind you-would prefer that it continue indefinitely, even to Methusallah dimensions) is that everything is way more complicated than it ought to be.

    I have, through diligent effort, managed to somewhat simplify my personal life, getting rid of many possessions which previously owned me, but that has had no effect on national politics, which, via the complications, leaves us unable to have any real effect on them.

    As Dr. Seuss once wrote:

    “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”

    Try to tell that to a politician.

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  47. And I should add that the problem with lobbyists is that they are invisible to us mere mortals.

    We know the names and positions of many, many "politicians". I know two or three lobbyists (state level) personally. They and their national level peers are far more powerful than any of the politicians whose names we know.

    Off the top of your head, without using Google or other research resources, name me a dozen of the most powerful lobbyists and I will transfer my life's savings to you.

    Already ROTFLMAO. The only people who could do that would be the politicians.

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  48. Hello, good morning, and good night, OT.

    Regrettably, I cannot require you to divest yourself of your life savings. But, I would not, would simply tag you for a brace of Stellas. The only lobbyist I can name is Victor Kamber, an AFL-CIO hack who was a lobbyist for that same continuing criminal enterprise, years ago.

    I would remind you that the unions buy their pols outright and pay their way into office. And those pols are also TB's to start with. If corporations and the Chamber had as much juice as you say, Davis-
    Bacon would have been repealed years ago, and no one would ever have heard of card check, let along union shop contracts.

    Nighty night.

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  49. Somehow, again, in Kitty Kat's twisted, little pea-headed mind, he thinks he's pulled off the coup d'etat with his little ruse. People have been doing that since Al Gore invented the internet. What a nitwit!

    I knew whoever it was, it/she/he was a liberal wanna be because of all of the politically correct language. He said something without really saying anything. Much like you do all the time Kitty Kat.

    It's interesting how yet again the 'ole Kat has ducked a question that I posed to him. It seems he knows everything about everything, but when the time comes to answer one of my questions, he comes up moronic.

    His ignorant babble about the Patriot Act proves that he knows nothing about some of the things that he, quickly and readily, condemns. A typical liberal, idiot's perspective on something that justs comes from a conservative lawmaker illicits tired, old, Democratic phraseology.

    The sad part of this reality show is that people like Kitty Kat are walking around everywhere, and people wonder why so many things go undone, and why so many 'crazy' things happen in life.

    It's a Kitty Kat world out there.

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