Tag: government
member name: Gary Gentry
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April 25, 2009 12:21 PM EDT --
The Wall Street Journal's Gary Fields has produced another article demonstrating a lack of understanding of basic economics, perhaps even basic math. The article http://finance.yahoo.com/retirement/article/106934/Wealth-Less-Effect-Earning-Well-Feeling-Otherwise . . .
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September 06, 2008 02:38 PM EDT --
If you've had a long-standing argument with your neighbor, and then you notice him putting up a fence that encroaches on your back yard, what's your first reaction? Knock it down or talk to him . . .
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January 08, 2009 03:57 PM EST --
I am not against agriculture or farmers. What I am against, however, are the schizophrenic, wasteful and counter-productive ways in which the US Department of Agriculture tries to help farmers and the . . .
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May 10, 2009 01:57 PM EDT --
Three articles I read today fill me with pessimism for the future of America. The first two gave the arguments for and against President Obama's proposal to conduct a thorough, independent review . . .
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September 22, 2008 07:07 PM EDT --
Does anybody remember the Keating Five? From Wikipedia:
The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of . . .
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March 22, 2009 01:37 PM EDT --
Sandy Knauer started a post called "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" designed to keep the spotlight on our politicians. This is my 2nd post in keeping with that goal.
Dear Senator Kyl: . . .
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May 11, 2009 06:19 PM EDT --
The idea of a national identity card fills many people with dread. All Libertarians and many conservatives become agitated at the mere mention of such a document. Specters of past dictatorships, and even . . .
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December 21, 2005 05:46 PM EST --
This was posted 2 years ago, before groups existed on Gather
Several times in the recent past I have heard the term "fascist" applied pejoratively . . .
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January 27, 2008 03:55 PM EST --
I listened to a presidential candidate today. He went into the now obligatory sob story about an individual who had approached him at a rally. The man was working two jobs to pay for . . .
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January 10, 2008 01:57 PM EST --
The lack of outrage in the Muslim world over the hijacking of their religion is striking. The silence is deafening when Shiites murder . . .
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September 06, 2008 09:29 AM EDT --
Republicans have been enormously successful in convincing Americans of the biggest economic myth of modern times - that cutting taxes actually increases government revenue. It's counter-intuitive; . . .
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November 09, 2008 11:27 AM EST --
Arizona Congressman Jeff Flake has been a consistent, though mostly ignored, truly conservative voice in Congress. While I disagree with him on many issues, he presents his case thoughtfully without . . .
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January 19, 2009 01:29 AM EST --
Despite having lost the popular vote in 2000, George Bush governed as though he had inherited a throne, with disdain for democratic and legal conventions. Citing the "inherent authority" of . . .
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February 09, 2009 01:13 PM EST --
Several proposals for alleviating the mortgage melt down include re-negotiating the terms of the loans. Some would allow bankruptcy judges to set new terms that a troubled homeowner could meet, thereby . . .
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November 10, 2008 10:29 AM EST --
Democrats are for big government, Republicans are for small government. That's the conventional wisdom, but as usual, the conventional wisdom is only correct in the abstract, and even then, only partly . . .
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October 01, 2008 01:48 PM EDT --
George Will is against the financial "rescue/bailout/??" plan for a number of reasons, but the worst consequence, as he sees it, is the secure feeling it will give future Masters of the Universe. . . .
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March 25, 2009 04:38 PM EDT --
The first time I visited Washington D.C as an adult (I had been there once 26 years earlier) was in 1991. By then, I had three almost grown children, was living in Jakarta, Indonesia and because of those . . .
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