[Rhodes22-list] Politics - chicken

[stan]

Brad,

I trust your wife appreciates the way you make love as much as I do.

ss

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Politics - chicken


> Stan,
>
> One should never underestimate your wisdom (or is that mis-underestimate,
> I'm under the W spell).  I'll shoot holes in your argument where they need
> to be targeted after I "pay my dues" today. We agree on more than we
> disagree. I'd love to shoot down the weaknesses in your business plan but
> you've outlasted 90% of Wall Street for the last three decades.  Don't 
> give
> me that "I built a first class product and treated my customers right"
> bullshit.  You're just another builder of 22' sailboats and the only 
> reason
> you're on top is because your competition couldn't get the hull color 
> right!
>
> Brad
>
> On Feb 12, 2008 11:55 AM, stan <stan at rhodes22.com> wrote:
>
>> Wish someone asked me
>>
>> Got to run so this will be quick:
>>
>> Stop the world (or at least the US) and take a deep breath
>>
>> Stop the bleeding - this means the dumbest war we ever got involved in.
>>
>> Stop terrorism by stopping its funding:  oil and drugs
>>
>>    stopping drugs is easy - make it legal
>>
>>    stopping oil is a bit harder since people will say it costs more for
>> alternate energy -  but that misses the point.  The money spent gets 
>> spent
>> here so what if it costs more.   In the long run it costs less anyway,
>> since
>> fighting terrorism, as we are prone to try to do it, is a lot more costly
>> than the energy costs differential.
>>
>>    By alternate energy I mean atomic, coal, ethanol, and a government
>> money
>> sponsored "man on the moon type program" to see if hydrogen and fuel 
>> cells
>> have real promise.  Who cares what all this costs as long as that money 
>> is
>> spent in the US.    We have so much oil in this country and surrounds we
>> could then be an oil exporter and clean up financially.
>>
>>    Do away with all corporate taxes - a corporation is not a person and
>> just passes that cost along in a negative manner.  Do away with all taxes
>> of
>> every sort except the income tax and make that simple and progressive.
>>  (Do
>> you know how inefficient having secondary tax collection departments are
>> like tolls and sales taxes)   In fact, at the risk of having Ed hoist the
>> hammer and sickle over my head, I would propose that, since this is a
>> capitalistic country, we put the government in a capitalistic businesses
>> that makes money so we could even do away with the IRS.  What businesses
>> could the US government own:  Oil, maybe transportation, medical products
>> -
>> give it some thought, even those who are blinded by words like socialism
>> can
>> come up with certain industries the government can run and make money on
>> while having congress as the board of directors and the citizens as
>> stockholders and no income taxes as dividends.  Keep one tax,  the
>> inheritance tax (there is no such thing as a death tax) because if you do
>> not you will eventually loose your beloved democracy and end up with a 
>> new
>> form of rule by royalty and Brad will have one more things to shed tears
>> over when he hears this new royalty's altered national melody and words.
>>
>>    Take the money and the time out of campaigning.    Smart rules can do
>> it.  Everytime we feel it can't get more indecent, the following election
>> again ups all antes until only the mob or the few inheritors of our
>> collective wealth will be able to throw their crown into the ring - which
>> by
>> then will be just a tradition anyway.
>>
>>    Stop patch work cures like solving the current economic view with this
>> plan that will end up giving China tons more of our money.  Take the
>> current
>> handout and do something like sponsor an intermediate energy step like
>> financing one 85% ethanol pump in all stations fanning out from some auto
>> building center so that that company can turn out the same cars in the US
>> that it now sells to Brazil.   It will create more jobs, stop money from
>> leaving the country in oil purchasing, maybe save our
>> about-to-move-into-second place auto industry and, as it catches on (as
>> proven by Brazil), be self expanding - It hardly matters what the project
>> chosen (Huckabee suggested I-95 expansion) - just do it here and spend it
>> here and create jobs here.
>>
>>    Stop the immigration nonsense.  We need these workers.  I can write a
>> complete paper on this issue.  For now I can tell you that if you get rid
>> of
>> them you will get rid of what little manufacturing is left in this
>> country.
>> I can't believe we are not smart enough to solve this problem in a
>> productive way.
>>
>>    Wake up to the fact that your body is a holistic machine.  Get the 
>> drug
>> company influence off the backs of medical science and start the emphasis
>> on
>> preventative medicine.  In my opinion the reason the folks who try to get
>> a
>> job at GB have trouble using their brain is due to nutrition - they have
>> no
>> idea that what goes into their body is even more important than making 
>> the
>> effort to see that they put the right stuff into their car.   Start a
>> preventative medicine program starting with pregnant mothers who smoke
>> (since most of you believe life starts when a sperm finds its mark) and 
>> if
>> they refuse, authorize the gun association to kill them so this lobbying
>> group would then have a worthwhile purpose by helping start the beginning
>> of
>> the ending or our endless expansion of our medical welfare costs..
>>
>>    sorry, just getting started but am off to see the Wizard.
>>
>> Brad, I know you asked Robert, but this will teach you to give me even a
>> second hand opening.
>>
>> ss/ec/gbi
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com>
>> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:20 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Politics - chicken
>>
>>
>> > Robert,
>> >
>> > Here's what Herb said, again, "So, how about producing some real
>> concrete
>> > facts, or just admitting that it's just your left-wing propaganda".
>> >
>> > I don't neatly fit the label "right-wing" as Slim would like to believe
>> > nor
>> > do I think you fit into a "left-wing" label. What specific things would
>> > you
>> > like to see changed and how do you personally wish them to be changed.
>> >
>> > Please refrain from Obama style, "Change we can believe in", "Hope", 
>> > and
>> > other fluff, non-content positions, and faith-based statements.
>> >
>> > What specifically do you want the next President to reverse?  Provide
>> > detail, please.
>> >
>> > Brad
>> >
>> > On Feb 12, 2008 9:35 AM, Robert Skinner <robert at squirrelhaven.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Herb Parsons wrote:
>> >> > ...
>> >> > What you REALLY have is a deep resentment that in spite of what you
>> see
>> >> > as a dangerous man, you couldn't muster the wherewithall to defeat
>> him.
>> >> > So, how about producing some real concrete facts, or just admitting
>> >> > that
>> >> > it's just your left-wing propaganda.
>> >>
>> >> Herb -
>> >>
>> >> Bush has been very happy to risk the country over
>> >> and over again in the political equivalent of a
>> >> teenager's game of chicken.  Time after time, he
>> >> has shown himself willing to destroy our economy
>> >> if he doesn't get his way.  Now he is succeeding,
>> >> despite some YouTube propaganda.
>> >>
>> >> What the Democrats have is a collection of
>> >> congressmen and senators who decided to put the
>> >> country's needs ahead of their own preferences.
>> >> In the process, they allowed many things to
>> >> become law that are repugnant to a civilized
>> >> people.  (Yes, torture is uncivilized!)
>> >>
>> >> They have witnessed, accepted, and presided over
>> >> the trashing of the social contract embodied in
>> >> our constitution and bill of rights, voiding the
>> >> mandate that put them in office.
>> >>
>> >> This willingness to back down in the face of
>> >> superior bullheadedness and corporate bribes has
>> >> fueled youth's disgust with "establishment"
>> >> lawmakers of every stripe.
>> >>
>> >> What a revolting development!  The people who
>> >> will put the older generation into retirement
>> >> homes (read: jails for the unproductive) are
>> >> making themselves heard and seen.
>> >>
>> >> To paraphrase that reprehensible mayor of
>> >> Washington, DC:  "Get used to it, oldster."
>> >>
>> >> /Robert (a young oldster)
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