[Rhodes22-list] (was politics) A View From Texas
Jim White
jdwhite at panam.edu
Thu Apr 1 14:34:59 EST 2004
Yikes Ya'll
How did this become such a fierce issue? I couldn't even get any
advice from you guys about wire routing for my spreader lights!
Finally decided to drill a couple of #21 holes in the mast P/S side
and take the wires from there, plug up the holes with good ol'
silly-cone, ran another hot wire off of my bus and added a fuse
protected rocker switch.....any gripes about that?
Now, on to the main issue. GW is of course from Texas, so because most
of ya'll have preconceived notions 'bout how we Texans are (I think
that's called stereotyping); you'd guess we'd to the man defend him.
We'll I for one have my problems with the guy. Don't get me wrong, I'm
far from liberal...in fact I might be characterized as to the right of
Atilla the Hun. But, our foreign policy is a mess, and domestic
matters maybe even worse. Spending is out of control. They're giving
away billions of yours, mine and Stans dinero to placate the rest of
the world.
I live a mere 10 miles from the US Mexico Border (shorter in a
straight line)...(and yes, Rummy there is a Mt. Gay Rum god....I buy
it 'cross the border for $6.50/liter), and border crossing is a joke.
While legitimate travelers are subject to high pressure bureaucracy,
in the brush just down river illegal aliens are streaming into the
good ol' US at an alarming rate...including the orts and leavings of
every nefarious third world country. Our local domestic shrimp
industry is in chaos because special interest protects the dumping of
tons of foreign farm raised product on the market, things that I
thought our federal government was supposed to protect us from. Farms
are closing down at a record rate, because NAFTA has allowed cheap
produce to flood the domestic market. I can't even fly out without
taking off my shoes and proving that I have no fireworks in my soles!
...And whose fault is this? Is it GW's, Clinton, George Sr., Ronald
Reagan? Jimmy Carter? ad infinitum? No, these problems have been a
long time in the making, and are finally culminating like an ugly
blackhead on the end of our collective noses. IT'S OUR FAULT. While
the ship moved forward, we depended on each other to mind the rudder,
while in actuality, NO ONE WAS THERE! We let the special interests,
the Washington elected and others in high places (including the media)
get by without accountability. We didn't bother to see the rocks that
lay ahead, or even check the radar.
And now it's up to us to collectively work together to get this big
old boat back on course. I think we all know what we have to do. We
are a diverse nation, and we proudly celebrate that fact. But do we
celebrate our unity as well? Our will to work together for the common
good?
Yea, I'm from Texas, and sometimes this place seems like more of a
nation than a state, but I also can see what's going on in the rest of
this great country and am more worried than I've ever been, I don't
want to lose any more freedom, liberty or prosperity because I
neglected the rudder.
Sorry for the diatribe.
Jim White
BTW A proud Vietnam Vet....
At 02:45 PM 04/01/2004 -0500, you wrote:
Steve,
Japan attacked the US, Iraq did not. How you can compare the two
shows a real lack of understanding of both history and current
world events.
By the way, NC had a "cowboy Republican" for too many years,
luckily Jesse Helms decided to retire.
Wally
From: Steve <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
To: stan <stan at rhodes22.com>,The Rhodes 22 mail list
<rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Politics Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004
11:16:42 -0800 (PST)
Good thing Bush lower you taxes to make up for all the
State tax increases, Stan. Maybe you need to try to
get more Rupublican voted into office there in NC and
you would not have those problem. Maybe you have a
wild NC rebulican cowboy that could help you out:-) I
find it interesting that a business owner would hold
the view that you do, Stan. I work for the government
and see that your analysis is off. No offence but I
call them like they analyze out to be. As for our
solders, they signed up to fight; on their own free
will. Surenly you don't think that the militery
paycheck is jsut the same as a welfare check. Also,
the only reason that we all can sit here & voice our
opinions freely is the fact that we have militery
Bases all over the world with solders on ready to
fight to protect this country. That what keep this
country free; we fight to keep it that way. Talking
does no good.
Steve
PS - No offence Stan. Just my opinion. BTW: I had
relative that died in WWII so that you all don't have
to speak Japanese. Maybe we should have jsut raised
the white flag then, we wouldn't have to worry about
Irag today - Would have been an Japan problem:-)
--- stan <stan at rhodes22.com> wrote:
> sorry - I can't resist
>
> As usual both sides score points but I am old enough
> to remember that when
> Clinton did his military thing the republicans were
> screaming for his head
> for trying to help the oppressed Muslims, even
> though he did not lose
> American lives in the process. Imagine if this were
> Clinton's war - they
> would have hired a hit squad to stop him. This time
> it's a republican
> trying to help Muslims and it is the second coming.
>
> I would not pick on Geraldo for trying to tell us
> some good news - while he
> is more liberal than his Foxy brothers he does eat
> at the pleasure of those
> network divisions of the Murdock/General Electric
> giants. I would,
> however, pick on our media mouthpieces for not
> picking on leaders who plowed
> us into a venture where the facts have proven these
> strategist failed their
> pre-attack homework. It may be comforting to cry
> over the dead but it is
> sickening to see the thousands upon thousands who
> come back to us breathing
> but leaving so many of their good parts over there.
> As has been posted on
> these pages, face the facts. It is easy to be
> satisfied with this just cause
> when fighting the computer wars. But would it still
> be a just cause if you
> knew you were going to be among those thousands of
> irreversibly altered
> returning bodies - or would you too be switching to,
> hell no, we won't go.
> If you think this cause worth gambling even part of
> you and willing to put
> up and follow a wild ersatz Texas cowboy, I respect
> you and will shut up.
> But I won't be in back of you for this one.
>
> As long as the economy was put on the electronic
> table I assume by now you
> all know that the tax cuts were not tax cuts but
> simply redistribution of
> wealth. The savings of my guys has long since been
> more than eaten up by
> non-progressive increases in gas prices, sales
> taxes, state income taxes,
> real estate taxes, tuition increases (which is
> really the longest lasting
> and most detrimental to the health of this country -
> read Brokaws The
> Greatest Generation, tax increases) and endless food
> and commodity price
> increases. We have raised the price of a Rhodes one
> thousand dollars and
> that still does not make up for the increases in
> steel, and resin and
> aluminum and plywood - even with our throwing our
> two social security checks
> into the pot. I think those who were having
> difficulty connecting the dots
> to our leader's vision of our future, are beginning
> to see the picture. One
> of my nightmare visions are the fathers of a
> balanced budget taking the
> national debt to infinity: Foreigners pulling out
> of bonds, interest rates
> skyrocketing, the housing starts plummeting and
> worse, the record number of
> credit card carrying Americans suddenly having a
> monthly interest burden
> that will burry them - if they could afford a
> funeral. As one pundit put
> it, Bush had campaigned to bring us together and he
> is finally succeeding.
> I think we already have enough Slims out there to
> put him out to pasture.
>
> stan/gbi
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve" <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com>
> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list"
> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 9:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Politics Geraldo Rivera
> reports
>
>
> > Interesting Ed.
> > I have always thought that Fox was well balanced
> for
> > new. ABC, CBS & NBC are all liberal networks. Or
> at
> > least, I think so. I also think we are doing a
> good
> > job over there. In the good old days, helping
> poor
> > abused people to achive freedom was a liberal
> cause.
> > But Clinton did not think to help those people so
> now
> > the dems. have to opose it. At least we are
> helping
> > them. That whats important.
> > Steve
> >
> >
>
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