Bush is a hero

lisw wrote:

I am a grandma. She was born two weeks early, but is healthy and so is her mom. Praise the Lord!

WildWeirdWillie wrote:

<quoted text>If I said your posts were meaningless I went way too far.
I understand that you post what you believe, and I understand the points you make most of the time.
Your replies to many posts, however, leave me wondering why you attach your thoughts to the posts of other people, because I can't see ANY relationship between the post and the reply.

Rudyard Kiplingesque wrote:

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Of course. You were an early supporter. Though I wasn't sure if you were laughing because it was funny, or just to get the goat of who (whom?) I was poking fun at.
Remember what Charlie Hill said:'I bet y'all didn't know us In'dans had a sense of humor, huh? Well, we didn't think you were all that funny either.'
Remember him? He used to be on the old Richard Pryor show. and he dated the bionic broad for awhile.

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The only "further" I would go is to say that without education and some of the other services, business would not, could not thrive as it has. Not saying that there would not be business activity, just that it could not exist as it does today.
Interstate highways, the railroad system, and the electric grid all pretty much come in and tell local governments what they are going to do and it is the federal government that allows them to do that.

In return, citizens and businesses get more efficient electricity and transportation. Now the electrical grid is in bad need of improvement, but it will not get done until the federal government throws their weight behind it.
Look at the Hoover Dam and the Las Vegas area.
Look at what public water and sewage has done for business. NO high rise building could exist without them.

Ds Higgins1 wrote:

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I never really thought Hill was very funny. But I do agree with him when he says; "Its not indians versus white-folks, but its indians versus government, black people versus guvment and white people versus guvment".......

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Roberta G wrote:

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There IS truth to that, I agree. But Obama said "If you have a business, YOU DIDN'T BUILD IT." Favorable conditions help, certainly, but it's still the people who built the businesses who deserve the credit.
I'll illustrate with this: We all know the Olympics are going on. It's all very well for the athletes to have the best coaches, supportive families, proper training equipment, etc. But at the actual events, it's still the athletes THEMSELVES who must perform. Nobody can do that part for them. And at the end of the day, it's the businesmen and -women who build the businesses. Obama doesn't seem to recognize that.

okb2 wrote:

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Go vent somewhere else. You were wrong, I proved you wrong and while doing so I also proved that the founding fathers supported infrastructure projects such as roads funded by the federal government.

lisw wrote:

I am a grandma. She was born two weeks early, but is healthy and so is her mom. Praise the Lord!

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Lyndi wrote:

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My feeling is Hillary C. would have been the better choice for democrats but it seems the entire party was swept off it's feet by the newness of Obama. I haven't heard too many comment on that, probably because the horse is already out of the barn but nevertheless it bears mentioning........
It occurs to me that by choosing the abslolute furtherst left and virtual unknown in the senate, they took a huge and unnecessary risk. We'll know in November how that works out but I don't think Hillary would be scrambling right now like the incumbant, had she been the nominee.

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lisw wrote:

I am a grandma. She was born two weeks early, but is healthy and so is her mom. Praise the Lord!

bad bob wrote:

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I gotta stop time traveling. Weren't you a grannie 6 months ago or so? Or was that my mom giving my daughter a Cabbage Patch doll for Christmas in '88?

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lisw wrote:

I am a grandma. She was born two weeks early, but is healthy and so is her mom. Praise the Lord!

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Lyndi wrote:

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No worries.
Just to qualify, I am a registered independant which is a seceret code for "I don't quite fit in anywhere else."
I am early term pro choice, fiscal conservative and I don't care who marries whom or what the chicken guy said. I don't want theology involved in my government or my doctors office, I don't want a crucifix poised outside the Oval Office and I don't want my doctors office influenced by my government. I don't want to "share my money because it's fair" and I want immigrants coming to the front door, ringing the USA doorbell and not crawling through the cellar like moles.
The far left makes me cross-eyed and the far right makes me itch.
I want to live in the land of reason and not the land of "feelings." I don't want to be told to breastfeed or what size Pepsi I can have. I worship competition and free enterprise. I support our military. I support Israel.
I would have supported Lincoln. I would not have supported Roosevelt and I don't think JFK was the greatest President of all time but he did have nice hair.
There you go.
If you can assign a label to that mish-mash, lol- let me know.

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WildWeirdWillie wrote:

<quoted text>Because those services alone don't guarantee success.
Nothing Obama said can legitimately be interpreted as suggesting those services guarantee success. Obama didn't even elevate those services to the level OKB appeared to in the post I took exception to.
Those services make success easier, but NOTHING guarantees success, not even the most brilliant business plan, deepest pocket financing, and expenditure of enough sweat equity to lose thirty pounds a day for years.
Those services and others like them are contributing factors to the United States economy being what it is. Government has a role in that.
That's all Obama was saying. It wasn't profound, it wasn't brilliant, it was beyond banal - but boneheaded?
Nah. Makes for a good bumper sticker, though.

lisw wrote:

<quoted text>To me there is no such thing as a level playing field. We all have our disabilities and disadvantages and I believe we will drive ourselves crazy trying to level the field. It's more of a situation of who's in power and what they deem as a disadvantage. I believe the only leveler is matching our own drive to our own circumstances. If I'm not friendly enough or talkative enough to be a salesman I don't expect them to change what a saleman does, I expect to change myself.