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| What Isn't Being Talked About?; Ramping up to the real threat? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 5 2005, 01:09 AM (171 Views) | |
| corky52 | Oct 5 2005, 01:09 AM Post #1 |
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/04/bus...nflu/index.html Wanting military at the ready makes me wonder about several things! Power grab or a bigger threat than is being let on? |
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| Jelly Bean | Oct 5 2005, 01:34 AM Post #2 |
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I feel like I live in this upside down world where right is wrong, and wrong is right |
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| corky52 | Oct 5 2005, 01:45 AM Post #3 |
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JB, You just need to be more paranoid of "leaders"! I wonder about motives, to need to use the military the situation would have to be awfully bad or there is something else going on. |
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| cmoehle | Oct 5 2005, 04:20 AM Post #4 |
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Lately it seems he wants the military brought in for every problem--hurricanes, now bird flu. It's not just a big central government that Bush seeks, but power centralized in the executive. I sense this is his strongest motivation even in his court nominees. |
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Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order. --Barry Goldwater | |
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| corky52 | Oct 5 2005, 04:56 AM Post #5 |
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Has Nixon been reincarnated? |
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| Fr. Mike | Oct 5 2005, 08:40 AM Post #6 |
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I think the president needs to ramp up the Border Patrol and secure our borders. Bring the states National guards home so they can perform the time honored tradition of assisting their fellow state citizens in the event of emergencies. Here in Arizona we don't need a Federal Army from Washington involved in our disease control efforts. We have our own state health department that gets assistance from the center for disease control. If we need to have troops--we have our own guard--if it will just come home and do its duty. I'm fairly fed up with president Bush. |
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A humble servant of the Lord Jesus Christ Don't forget to say your prayers! The unborn have rights too. | |
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| MDPD6320 | Oct 5 2005, 10:40 AM Post #7 |
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We keep warning about the presence of the federal government in every phase of our existence. People must understand that continual criticism of things like FEMA's response, and the dragging of the federal government into every emergency, where there is an apparent good reason for their presence, provides a foot in the door for other less agreeable consequences. When local and state officials fail to carry out their responsibilities, they must be held accountable by the people who elected them. Dependence on the federal government to right all wrongs, and do the job of local government, will ultimately lead to a loss of freedom. When President Bush suggests that the military be used domestically to quarantine a locality in the event an outbreak of avian flu occurs federalism has gone too far. |
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" The government big enough to give you everything you want it is big enough to take everything you have." "Extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue" All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. | |
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| cmoehle | Oct 5 2005, 11:13 AM Post #8 |
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IMO, the blame can be allocated in a pyramid, the lower, more local levels receiving the bulk of it, largely for not taking responsibility but depending on others, mayor on governor and federal authorities, governor on federal authorities as well, and federal authorities, like FEMA, failing because big government bureaucracies are bulky and inflexible and slow, in short not solutions but problems by their very nature. Let's not in reaction invert the pyramid. |
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| puli-one | Oct 5 2005, 05:27 PM Post #9 |
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As a outsider looking in, it appears that if Bush is successful in convincing others the need for increased military participation, he is really trying to justify instituting the Draft once again to attain the numbers he seeks. Recruitment figures have dropped from their targets, the Draft is a easy solution. Can America afford the scale of the military which he seeks ! |
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| MDPD6320 | Oct 5 2005, 05:45 PM Post #10 |
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We have more than enough military to do what's necessary. We however don't need to use them on what is the responsibility and obligation of civilian authority. |
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" The government big enough to give you everything you want it is big enough to take everything you have." "Extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue" All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. | |
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| pentax | Oct 5 2005, 05:53 PM Post #11 |
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"Can America afford the scale of the military which he seeks" I don't see how he thinks it can afford what he has NOW - In mid-1999, a few months after his Inauguration, the Federal Debt was $5.6 Trillion - It is now almost $8 Trillion (doubtless will be by Christmas). That's a 43% increase - in SIX YEARS. http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ |
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| cmoehle | Oct 5 2005, 05:58 PM Post #12 |
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THis seems to fit...Andy Rooney, Ike Was Right About War Machine
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| corky52 | Oct 5 2005, 06:14 PM Post #13 |
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GWB's stripping the states of their National Guards is the reason he feels free to bring up the FEDERAL Troops idea. Whole country under marshal law and a "National Emergency", might just have to call off the elections for a while? Maybe God is visiting his punishments on the U.S. and GWB feels he needs to stay in power to lead the U.S. back to God. It would be for our own good I'm sure. Blue states are the first place that troops might be needed????? |
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| pentax | Oct 5 2005, 06:21 PM Post #14 |
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A more "alarmist" thinker than I am might suggest something that sounds far-fetched, at first: If citizens become accustomed enough to seeing Military Uniforms in their towns and cities, many other possibilities move a step or so closer to do-able..... happened in another (European) country, some 7 decades ago.
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| Fr. Mike | Oct 5 2005, 07:02 PM Post #15 |
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Excellent points. |
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A humble servant of the Lord Jesus Christ Don't forget to say your prayers! The unborn have rights too. | |
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