Something I wanted to say myself.
I wanted to write it, but Ben Carson beat me to it.
Washington Times, December 17,2013. To Counter Coarseness, Choose Civility (selected).
"The key to civility is thinking of others first. Civility and honesty are highly desirable traits. Those of us who can still recognizes imperfections in everyone, including ourselves, must not give up on decency, values, and godly principles of loving one's neighbor and developing one's God-given talents to the utmost. This has nothing to do with political parties, but has everything to do with the future of our nation".
"Other than Bernie Madoff and a few notable others, not many of these individuals suffered any consequences for their part in the near destruction of our economy and the shattering of the dreams of millions of Americans".
Another nail right on the forehead of those who have the mantra that Greed is Good (quite a few on AP). Carson maintains that there is nothing wrong with wealth itself when it is a natural product of creativity and industriousness.
"It is unreasonable to expect a civil and compassionate society from a culture that tolerates and often even encourages cruel and dishonest behavior from its leading commentators and leaders. Blinded by their ideology, they are incapable of seeing things from the view of others".
Yes, the response time was faster
Because the response time was slow at the theater massacre.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/us/colorado-shooting
But, he killed himself, the deputy didn't shoot him.
[URL]http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/17/new-details-emerge-in-arapahoe-high-school-shooting/4070815/[/URL]
[QUOTE=Punter127;437111][B]Armed response, not restrictive gun laws, brought swift end to school shooting[/B]
"It was an armed deputy who stopped the Arapahoe High School gunman last week from unleashing a deadly massacre, not the expansive new gun control laws approved by Colorado Democrats in March in reaction to two mass shootings."
Once again good guys with guns prove more effective than laws.
[URL]http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/18/prevention-of-school-massacre-shoots-down-argument/[/URL][/QUOTE]
Here's your answer, right on time!
[QUOTE=Jackson;437116]Interesting, because the greediest people I know are the lazy fucks who are sitting around encouraging their politicians to find ways to take money from those who have earned it and "redistribute" to themselves.
[I]"I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money."[/I]
― Thomas Sowell, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays.[/QUOTE]Good Poor, Bad Poor. NY Times, November 19, 2013.Timothy Egan (selected).
"The House, has passed a measure to eliminate food aid for four million Americans. At the same time, Congress has let unemployment expires for 1.3 million people. These actions have nothing to with bringing federal spending into line, and everything to do with a view that poor people are morally inferior".
Steve Sutherland, Republican Representative (Florida): The explosion of food stamps in this country is not just a fiscal issue for me. This is a defining moral issue of our time.
Rand Paul, Republican Senator (Kentucky): It would be a disservice to extend unemployment assistance to those who have been out of work for some time. It encourages them to sit at home and do nothing.
James Inhofe, Republican Senator (Oklahoma): People who capable of fully working are buying things like beer.
Jackson, fearless wealthy BA businessman: Well, you know what he said under his breath.
"No doubt, poor people drink too much beer, watch television, and have bad morals. But so do rich people. Republican representative of Florida, Trey Radal recently pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine. The median income of new members of the current congress is exactly $1 million more than the typical American household. The baseline benefit under the old food stamp program works out to $1.40 a meal, and the average emergency unemployment check work out to be $300 a week. Meanwhile, a wealthy Montana farmer was getting nearly $300,000 in federal subsidies. So one person deserves a handout, the other does not.
Why? People are poor because they are WEAK. When a million Irish died during the Great Famine of the 1850s, many of the English aristocracy said that the peasants deserved to starve because their families were too big and indolent. The baronet overseeing food relief felt that the famine was God's judgement."
"And making out the poor to be lazy, or dependent, or stupid, does not make them less poor. It only make the person saying such a thing feel superior.".
Politicians and Bureaurcates
Harry Reid interceded for foreign investor's visas for the SLS casino being built in Las Vegas, is a prime example of an "unappealable" denial of an investor visa by Homeland Security being reversed by a Democrat for political and economic reasons.
[URL]http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/10/harry-reids-visa-pressure-cooker/?page=all[/URL]
I do not imply this does not happen on both sides of the isle because it most certainly does and we only hear about the ones who are caught which is probably only a fraction of the number what actually transpire. Term limits for the House and Senate would go a long way to eliminating many of these abuses.
One other thing we are losing site of in this argument are the multitude of created agencies run by unelected bureaucrats whose regulations have the effect of law, HHS and EPA come to mind.
Lazy lawmakers too busy to enact the actual regulations for the laws they pass, hand off this duty to the bureaucrats to propagate the actual regulations. Perhaps if the lawmakers had to think through the regulations of laws PRIOR to enacting them we would not have many of the laws now on the books.
Term limits for the House and Senate is only half the issue, the other half is to reduce and / or eliminate many of the agencies staffed by unelected, faceless bureaucrats who remain in place from election to election and administration to administration.
