pathetic

[mr surveyor]

being self employed with a small business, I can't wait to see all the wonderful benefits from the newly passed health care fiasco.....uuhhh, I mean legislation, that I will be forced to endure.....uuuhhh, I mean enjoy

I see huge inflation in the very near future

[marksiwel]

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[bayouhazard]

Not quite.

[cwohardy]

IMHO, y'all can debate the issues all you want but I think the time for debate has passed. I have thought that since I knew the Repubs were gonna get beat in the election (not that I cared for their candidates either).

I don't even bother to debate issues anymore. I have taken solid physical action to defend against what I think is coming to the U.S.of A.

This health care debacle is just the start. Next will be amnesty for illegal aliens rammed down our throat the same way the health care plan was. And oh golly gee look, the same people who just did the health care plan will automatically have all those millions of votes in their pockets when they make instant citizens out of people who have came here illegally.

The government already controls the American auto industry and if you study all the rules they have put in place for banks, the government now cracks the whip on every bank that is big enough to affect our economy.

This is the slickest moves I have seen in years and I though Slick Willie was a master. The new president makes him look like a Jaycee at the local Chamber of Commerce pancake breakfast.

I stopped waiting to see what is coming next before he ever got elected.

[SwimFan85]

IMHO, y'all can debate the issues all you want but I think the time for debate has passed. I have thought that since I knew the Repubs were gonna get beat in the election (not that I cared for their candidates either).

I don't even bother to debate issues anymore. I have taken solid physical action to defend against what I think is coming to the U.S.of A.

Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne! In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free-- if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending--if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!

[joe817]

My Lord SwimFan85, how appropriate!

(but let us leave out the "appeal to arms", shall we?

[cwohardy]

but let us leave out the "appeal to arms", shall we?

WHY?

From what I can see we are rapidly headed to that as our only option. Voting is getting us NO WHERE FAST

[The Annoyed Man]

being self employed with a small business, I can't wait to see all the wonderful benefits from the newly passed health care fiasco.....uuhhh, I mean legislation, that I will be forced to endure.....uuuhhh, I mean enjoy

I see huge inflation in the very near future

Ditto.

[father]

but let us leave out the "appeal to arms", shall we?

WHY?

From what I can see we are rapidly headed to that as our only option. Voting is getting us NO WHERE FAST

Son, I am disappoint. We tried the soap box. We tried the ballot box. We tried the jury box. There's one box left.

[snorri]

NEW YORK (March 13) -- In coffee shops -- and at least one bar -- people fed up with the Tea Party movement gathered Saturday to discuss issues and launch what they call the Coffee Party.

Someone said TEA in this context stands for Taxed Enough Already

Does COFFEE in this context stand for Communist Oppressors & Fascists Fight Economic Emancipation?

[stevie_d_64]

Does this mean the Libertarians will start a "Caffeine-Free Movement"? Wonder what that'll be like?

Now thats funny!!!

Paging Dr. Paul, Dr. Paul??? Paging Dr. Paul...

[MojoTexas]

Does this mean the Libertarians will start a "Caffeine-Free Movement"? Wonder what that'll be like?

Also, it could be argued that the Tea Parties are as much of a Libertarian thing as a Republican thing. It could be argued that the Libertarians (like me) are stronger advocates of lower taxes and smaller government than the Republicans are. Some Republicans (like Ron Paul and his son Rand) fit that definition.

As long as you limit the focus of the Tea Party movement to smaller government and less taxation, you'll find enthusiastic support from both the Libertarians and the Republicans. It's when you start bringing up social issues (such as gay marriage, abortion, immigration, etc.) that you start to find disagreement.

[Liberty]

Does this mean the Libertarians will start a "Caffeine-Free Movement"? Wonder what that'll be like?

Also, it could be argued that the Tea Parties are as much of a Libertarian thing as a Republican thing. It could be argued that the Libertarians (like me) are stronger advocates of lower taxes and smaller government than the Republicans are. Some Republicans (like Ron Paul and his son Rand) fit that definition.

As long as you limit the focus of the Tea Party movement to smaller government and less taxation, you'll find enthusiastic support from both the Libertarians and the Republicans. It's when you start bringing up social issues (such as gay marriage, abortion, immigration, etc.) that you start to find disagreement.

I hope I don't swing this off-track and off topic, but many (most?) will believe that one of the few duties our government has is to secure its borders from invaders.

Please I don't mean to drag the issue in this thread except to clarify libertarianism. We are also not always unified either.