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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 475317" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>You seem in some sense to be echoing the ideas of one Robert Kagan in Washington Post op-ed:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/02/AR2009020202618.html?hpid=opinionsbox1" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/02/AR2009020202618.html?hpid=opinionsbox1</span></a></p><p></p><p>But then we get a different take from Glenn Greenwald at Salon on this issue:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/02/03/kagan/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/02/03/kagan/index.html</span></a></p><p></p><p>Republicans and Conservatives screamed bloody murder and rightly so when democrats/liberals used the same creative math as Kagan when it concern budget items like Social Security and other public assiatance plans that democrats claimed republicans were cutting. Now the very thing the <strong><span style="font-size: 12px">once </span>majority</strong> condemned, <span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>now</strong></span> a <strong>minority</strong> they seem to be resorting to the same math trickery. The once victim now becomes the assailant!</p><p></p><p>Or is it just plain our deceptive dishonesty?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Where, Oh where have the principles gone.</p><p>Oh Where Oh Where can they be?</p><p></p><p>Sung to the tune of where has the dog gone!</p><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/wink.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":wink2:" title="Wink :wink2:" data-shortname=":wink2:" /></p><p></p><p>BTW: Read my post #14 on the Economic Stimulus thread and give some more thought to your comments. As to my remarks on our children and grandchildren saddled with public debt, consider this. This is the graph from 1940' to 2080' and this just pertains to entitlements alone.</p><p></p><p>This chart doesn't factor in all the extra goodies of recent months that Uncle George and now Uncle Barrack have given away to both corp. and public welfare queens so the picture of the graph is in fact now much worse! How does anyone anymore trust either side to do the right thing and start turning this whole mess around?</p><p></p><p>Bob Higgs nailed it on the title of this piece!</p><p><a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs104.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs104.html</span></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 475317, member: 2189"] You seem in some sense to be echoing the ideas of one Robert Kagan in Washington Post op-ed: [URL='http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/02/AR2009020202618.html?hpid=opinionsbox1'][COLOR=red]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/02/AR2009020202618.html?hpid=opinionsbox1[/COLOR][/URL] But then we get a different take from Glenn Greenwald at Salon on this issue: [URL='http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/02/03/kagan/index.html'][COLOR=red]http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/02/03/kagan/index.html[/COLOR][/URL] Republicans and Conservatives screamed bloody murder and rightly so when democrats/liberals used the same creative math as Kagan when it concern budget items like Social Security and other public assiatance plans that democrats claimed republicans were cutting. Now the very thing the [B][SIZE=3]once [/SIZE]majority[/B] condemned, [SIZE=3][B]now[/B][/SIZE] a [B]minority[/B] they seem to be resorting to the same math trickery. The once victim now becomes the assailant! Or is it just plain our deceptive dishonesty? Where, Oh where have the principles gone. Oh Where Oh Where can they be? Sung to the tune of where has the dog gone! :wink2: BTW: Read my post #14 on the Economic Stimulus thread and give some more thought to your comments. As to my remarks on our children and grandchildren saddled with public debt, consider this. This is the graph from 1940' to 2080' and this just pertains to entitlements alone. This chart doesn't factor in all the extra goodies of recent months that Uncle George and now Uncle Barrack have given away to both corp. and public welfare queens so the picture of the graph is in fact now much worse! How does anyone anymore trust either side to do the right thing and start turning this whole mess around? Bob Higgs nailed it on the title of this piece! [URL='http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs104.html'][COLOR=red]http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs104.html[/COLOR][/URL] [/QUOTE]
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