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     Jasonl |
I guess it depends on where you look. I do know that many things that are being done now really help out Bush's corporate sponsors. But just think...in 4 yrs he'll have paid his dues and we'll have forgotten all about how he had to sell out to his friends in the first place. Don't get me wrong..they're all crooked. I'm just not on this band wagon. I would've rather them kept the $300 and done something with it. More drug treatment programs? More environmental programs? More assistance for poor people to own their own homes? In stead we get tax cuts when we're starting to get the deficit under control. Lets put some of that money away for when we're told Social Security will collapse. It just doesn't make sense that when you're getting on top of your debts to go on a spending spree. | ||
| Aaron |
Spending spree? I'll never understand how liberals equate taking less of someone's money with spending money. That position presumes that it's really the government's money and any that they allow you to keep is a gift. Like the tax-cuts-for-the-rich thing, it's a distortion designed to fool gullible people. Over 50% of government spending is entitlements. In other words, they're taking money out of one person's pocket and putting it into someone else's. No service is provided in return. I see absolutely no functional difference between that and a thief who puts a gun to your head and takes your money. Both rationalize it by saying they need your money more than you. What's the difference? I guess I don't view more government programs as the solution to anything. The bigger and more beauracratic we let that thing get, the more it encroaches on our lives, hurts our prosperity, and erodes our freedoms. In my view, the left represents all those things. They want a big government trying to take away from those of us who produce and give it to people who don't, and they want to take away our guns to make sure we can never revolt. Keeping with the theme of the page ...  ('course, if the liberals had their way, the flats would be closed to racing to protect some endangered species of housefly) AW | ||
| Dave |
... and now for something completely different ...  "racerboy" aka Bob's S3T DAve :-) | ||
| Turnagain |
X1W with the pipes closer to what they actually look like:  DAve, you beat me to your punch. Thanks! sorry to have mentioned that check deal, Steve(2); patriot as defined by J.B.  | ||
| Bluzm2 |
I've seen the X1W in person. Twin Cities HD sold one last Friday, I was there when the new owner picked it up. It looks better in person than I thought it would. The above blue is much closer to actual than the first pic. I gave the new Buell owner (his first) the URL's for BWB, ATC, Sac and a couple of others. Never know, he may pop in! BTW, the food fight has moved to the Quick Topics/ Political Thoughts section. Here - http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/4062/7975.html?996105705 Aaron, well stated. Waaaay too many entitlements. I believe it was Ben Franklin that said you cannot give money/anything away for free. Or something to that effect, I need to find the actual quote. There must be some sense of ownership and a feeling of earning what you have. Giving things away for free creates an unlimited demand for limited supply. Brad |
