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Who got the USA into the Korean war? "Give 'm Hell" Harry Truman. And it was Republican President Eisenhower who got us out. Are you too young to remember how the USA got big-time into the Vietnam conflict? It was Kennedy who first sent combat troops there. It was Johnson who got us into a full-scale war there. And it was Nixon, a Republican, who got us out. Carter stuck the US military nose into El Salvador. Under Clinton, a USA-led NATO force engaged in military strikes in Yugoslavia. Clinton also stuck the US military nose into Serbia, Afghanistan and Sudan, and.forced a regime change in Haiti. When did Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter and Clinton join the Republican party? Face it, your assertion that "It has been the Right that has insisted we stick our nose into the business of other nations" is just divisive partisan drivel.

Actually, your next statement is more nearly correct, although it's the Left more than the right that wants "Big Brother" type control over us.

Sometimes but by no means always. That's the trouble with the Left wingnut point of view -- they think like the economy is a zero-sum game, that the only way one person gets richer is if someone else gets poorer.

I used to belong to a professional organization, but quit when the organization, which to my mind should have been apolitical, began using my dues to support political causes I disagreed with.

That leaves me confused. Do you have something in particular in mind?

And here all along I thought it was Congress who set the federal budget.

Times were pretty good under the Clinton administration too. But of course he had a Republican congress...

And you don't have to explain - I completely understand.

As for "waste," I consider killing a HUGE number of, um, "them" and blowing up a lot of s*it, hardly a waste! To use the jargon of the modern progressive, it was an "investment."

Han wrote: .

Huh? Neutralized?

There was a "recall the governor" election last June. The Republican governor, Scott Walker won with 53% of the vote, slightly higher than his original election results (52.29%).

I have. If you have statistics that show something different, I'd be tickled to see them.

The article wasn't meant to illuminate the writer's windfall; it was meant to show the short-sightedness of New York's tax laws.

And why would you say the writer's "facts" were doubtful? It's easy enough to check (I erred; it was not the WSJ, it was the New York Post):

"Opponents point to Rochester billionaire B. Thomas Golisano, a philanthropist and minor party candidate for governor, who moved to Florida to avoid paying $13,000 a day more in New York taxes."

"By moving to Florida, I can spend that $5 million on worthy causes, like better hospitals, improving education or the Clinton Global Initiative. Or maybe I'll continue to invest it in fighting the status quo in Albany. One thing's certain: That money won't continue to fund Albany's bloated bureaucracy, corrupt politicians and regular special-interest handouts."

What a liar.

Don't confuse Han with the facts. He's been sick for weeks and his brain is gone. The only think left is lies.

Me too. Especially when in collusion with the powers that be...

A few months ago our city manager resigned. She did so because of the election of a new commissioner who had vowed to kick her ass out.

Her contract called for various payments to her if she were fired, nothing if she quit (other than accrued sick leave and vacation time). She wound up with the esteemed commissioners giving her more than $300,000. I know not how much was sick leave and vacation but - obviously - she recived far in excess of those.

What really galls me is that she in now drawing unemployment. And all these years I've been laboring under the impression that unemployment was not available to those who quit.

court-packing expansion of the Commerce Clause for that.

Republican President Eisenhower who got us out. Are you too young to remember how the USA got big-time into the Vietnam conflict? It was Kennedy who first sent combat troops there. It was Johnson who got us into a full-scale war there. And it was Nixon, a Republican, who got us out. Carter stuck the US military nose into El Salvador. Under Clinton, a USA-led NATO force engaged in military strikes in Yugoslavia. Clinton also stuck the US military nose into Serbia, Afghanistan and Sudan, and.forced a regime change in Haiti. When did Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter and Clinton join the Republican party? Face it, your assertion that "It has been the Right that has insisted we stick our nose into the business of other nations" is just divisive partisan drivel.

I was not just referring wars. I was referring to invasive foreign policy wherein we stick our noses somewhere (Iran, Iraq, Israel, Korea, etc.) and then later have to pay for our sins (hostages in Iran, a war in Kuwait, and another war in Iraq).

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No facts, just name-calling. Typical.

It depends on the circumstances. Perhaps she was asked to resign?

Just Wondering wrote in news:50373a8a$0$5208$ snipped-for-privacy@usenet-news.net:

Your asking for a constitutional form of government - like ENgland, where the power resides in a prime minister who basically serves at the pleasure of the House, with just a powerless titular head - Queen of England or Holland, President of France or Italy.

" snipped-for-privacy@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

His majority in the house (or senate, I forget which one) has disappeared. He is still governor, but not with the power he had before. Don't get confused by the facts that count.

" snipped-for-privacy@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

The only ones who will survive that (if you can call it survive) will be the ones with sufficient fire power and gold (or wheat).

"Mike Marlow" wrote in news:af289$5036f12f$4b75eb81$ snipped-for-privacy@ALLTEL.NET:

That 20% goes to the IRS already. So, I am already doing what you suggest.

Larry Jaques wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

LOL. I know it probably is too late ... I still have that voter registration, though ...

Just Wondering wrote in news:5037374a$0$5297 $ snipped-for-privacy@usenet-news.net:

Another disaster that was engineered by the powers in charge (Johnson), just like Bush's Iraq wars. From Wikipedia on the Gulf of Tonkin resolution: The house was unanimous in favor, and "It was opposed in the Senate only by Senators Wayne Morse (D-OR) and Ernest Gruening (D-AK). Senator Gruening objected to "sending our American boys into combat in a war in which we have no business, which is not our war, into which we have been misguidedly drawn, which is steadily being escalated"." And indeed, it was Nixon (tricky Dick) who got us out, and who got us friendly with the Chinese. Two things for which I will always admire him. Now the other stuff ...