[Rhodes22-list] Robert S, David B, Peter L, my comments (Political)

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Robert S said, “And Bush's buddies are not into my pockets?”  Again you speak
in selected truths.  Are the Spitzer’s escapades more acceptable to you
because he paid from his bank accounts?  And you are letting your anti war,
anti Bush demagoguery fail to allow you to separate different concepts. 
 
David said, “Do you think taking my tax dollars and using them to underwrite
a war and continue the policies that undermined our currency isn't somehow
taking property from one group and paying for their selected "programs."  Of
course it is.  

However, the U. S. Constitution places the President in charge of national
security.  Because you do not believe in the Islamic threats does not allow
you to equate the current anti terrorist war to be put into the same kettle
as socialized medicine, low income housing, pork barrel projects, etc.  They
are different facts that cannot be grouped together to bash Bush.

David further said, “I'm not interested in refighting the cold war... it's a
new century.”  I am sorry but it is not possible to create a whole new world
anywhere but a fiction novel.  The whole world, the U. S. included still has
crooks, evil people and some reasonable good people who as human beings make
errors in judgments.  

It is the evil people who present special issues.  Bin Laden and his concept
of Islam allows him to kill those who do not agree with him.  He has
developed many followers.  As you are aware I like to quote others to
illustrate my points.  The following quote demonstrates what free people are
up against, "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do
it from religious conviction."  Blaise Pascal

Why do I comment against Socialism and those who espouse the diminution of
American Freedoms?  A little bit here and a little bit there seem
insignificant.  But many years ago, I read the following:

In Germany they first came for the Communists
    and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
 Then they came for the Jews,
    and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists
     and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics
     and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
 Then they came for me
    and by that time no one was left to speak up.

 --The Reverend Martin Niemöller, a pastor in the German Confessing Church
who spent seven years in a concentration camp.

Sure Bush made mistakes in his approach to the Iraq situation.  You are
using his mistakes to gloss over intentions and actions of evil people. 
Sure Haliburton has made profits and should be scrutinized.  Sure not all
people get the same medical care.  None of these issues validate destroying
America by going socialist.  Socialism has been tried elsewhere and has
failed.  Socialism inculcates power in a bureaucracy whose decisions may be
just a bad as those you complain about.  

Robert Skinner complained about the zoning board in Maine.  I contend that
is the nature of government bureaucracies and self serving people.  Only
when power is left to the people at large is there any hope to correct such
deficiencies.  

Ed K
Greenville, SC, USA
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