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So republicans don't believe in large federal government, yet complain when they downsize?

Consistency please.....
 
So republicans don't believe in large federal government, yet complain when they downsize?

Consistency please.....

They want to keep the parts that prevent gay marriage, stop abortions, and spy on American citizens. When a Republican talks about "big government," they mean Social Security and Welfare. In their eyes, the military can't be big enough, taxes can't be low enough, and citizens she be free to do whatever they want, as long as it fits in their narrow moral worldview.
 
They want to keep the parts that prevent gay marriage, stop abortions, and spy on American citizens. When a Republican talks about "big government," they mean Social Security and Welfare. In their eyes, the military can't be big enough, taxes can't be low enough, and citizens she be free to do whatever they want, as long as it fits in their narrow moral worldview.

Guns scare you, don't they?
 
They want to keep the parts that prevent gay marriage, stop abortions, and spy on American citizens. When a Republican talks about "big government," they mean Social Security and Welfare. In their eyes, the military can't be big enough, taxes can't be low enough, and citizens she be free to do whatever they want, as long as it fits in their narrow moral worldview.

Well said!
 
Food for Thought

45 Communist Goals to Take Over the USA

Remarks of Hon. A. S. Herlong, Jr. of Florida in the House of Representatives on Thursday, January 10, 1963.
Mr. HERLONG: Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America. At Mrs. Nordman?s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following ?Current Communist Goals,? which she identifies as an excerpt from ?The Naked Communist,? by Cleon Skousen: A list of 45 goals that found their way down the halls of our great Capitol back in 1963.
?The Naked Communist?
by Cleon Skousen​
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war. [Note: change this to nuclear war to update it.]
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev?s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a One-World Government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers? associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to ?eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.?

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. ?Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.?

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them ?censorship? and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as ?normal, natural, healthy.?

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with ?social? religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a ?religious crutch.?

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of ?separation of church and state.?

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the ?common man.?

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the ?big picture.? Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture?education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities (1938?1975) .

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ?united force? to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike
 
I'm not jealous. Primarily because I married well, my wife and I are in the highest tax bracket, but yet we feel that we actually don't pay enough in taxes.

Besides, I'm mainly talking about the richest 1%, which is those earning over 1.1 million per year. Most of the charts describe that as the start if the "wealth" line. That's not a millionaire next door....

Here you go: http://www.fms.treas.gov/faq/moretopics_gifts.html
 
So republicans don't believe in large federal government, yet complain when they downsize?

Consistency please.....

No. Republicans are complaining because Obama is using the sequester to target highly visible areas of the government to give the public the impression that any cuts to the government will hurt them personally and the only way to maintain the government is to raise taxes. The reality is, we could make 30 cuts the size of the sequester and no one would ever know the difference. There are billions of dollars wasted on duplicate programs, programs that have no benefit, fraudulent SS/Medicare(aid)/food stamp claims and so much more.
 
Back to the original topic, how can you be certain that delays are due to the sequester? I've not had any delays (but I fly corporate) and so I'm wondering how you could know definitively that the delays are due to the sequester.
 

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