How Liberals Are Changing America - RushOnline.com

How To Destroy a Democracy (or ruin a republic):

Destroy confidence in any old laws, judicial systems, constitutions, and citizen rights, by trivializing them and consistently ignoring them. It will also help if the leaders break oaths, dodge the draft, or just generally are unethical.

Prove to the countries citizens that their leaders are not to be expected to obey laws like they are. That their leaders are above the law. This will instill in their minds the fact that government is all-powerful and that it can rightfully get away with anything. It will also discourage any resistance to the government's pollicies.

Deny any personal wrong doings over and over despite proof to the contrary. Say anything, promise anything, and do anything. Remember that leaders can do no wrong and it is best to instill this in the minds of the people as soon as possible.

Diminish the value of life itself by encouraging abortion. Especially at the last minute of birth. Disguise the brutality of this by calling it "PARTIAL" birth abortion.

Destroy the concept of voting. Implement a substitute that can be manipulated and is open to interpretation. Something like "polls" or "citizen roundtables" should work fine.

Insure that the federal government receives high visibility when giving away tax money for social programs. This will achieve two purposes. It will make the people totally dependent on the government and give the appearance that their leaders are charitable. This will in turn help the federal government look good, allow it to raise taxes, and will undoubtedly improve poll results. Never let the people realize that to give it to them you first had to take it away from them.

Pick some popular topics like cigarette smoking, gun control, safety restraints, and environmental conservation that sound good, play them up, and use them to slowly pass restrictive laws and tax codes. Each of these laws and codes should take away just a few small freedoms. People will eventually become accustom to loosing a little freedom "for their own good" and the federal government can then parley this into eventual total freedom elimination.

Obtain the names and addresses of everybody who owns a firearm. This can be accomplished through such scams as gun registration, and gun purchasing checks. When the gun purchasing checks fail, blame it on "intermediary purchasing" and pass additional restrictive, freedom removing laws.

Slowly remove all firearms from the populace. Best to claim this is for their own good because they do not know how to control their usage. Without weapons their alternatives will be limited and they will be forced to accept the federal government's will.

Insure that all education facilities become dependent on the federal government. Provide funding for programs and then use threats of fund withdrawal to achieve the government's goals despite local resistance. This will insure total compliance with federal directives and allow the government's socialistic policies to be forced into the schools.

Slowly buy into the countries business through the stock market with the intent to eventually have the government own and control all the countries industries. Best to do this under the guise of saving some popular public benefit program like health care or social pension plans.

Never acknowledge that the local government has done anything on their own. Insure that the federal government receives the bulk of the credit for anything good that happens.

Be sure to insert the federal government into major debates and arguments between unions and business. Force their compliance with the federal government's ideas and policies under the pretence of helping out. This influence can also be extended to sport activities, air travel and eventually to almost anything.

Be sure to use the federal government's military authority to demonstrate its power and to distract the citizenry from any federal government mistakes. The target is unimportant and consideration for the lose of life or military hardship is unnecessary. Just go bomb somebody!

Do not let the local government tax the people to heavily. This can be accomplished by over taxing the people with the federal government's tax. To placate the people institute small subsidies that can be given back to the people in the local government, but only if the local government spends it as the federal government says.

Should the government end up with an excess of funds be sure to immediately institute a propaganda campaign to name the excesses as "surpluses" and never let the citizens know that it is really over taxation. That way the government can claim credit instead of being blamed for unsound taxing policies.

If it becomes necessary to really cut spending, cut benefits to specific minority groups such as the military. The military after all can not criticize the government and are bound to strict obedience. Essential military projects are also good targets. The cuts can always be attributed to your opponents and later you can claim a defense crisis and look like a hero by reinstating the programs.

Subsidize local police forces with the intent of achieving federal influence at the local law enforcement level. This procedure will make it possible for the federal government to use the local police to enforce federal laws without remuneration. This added financial burden would provide the added benefit of making local authorities dependent on the federal government.

Demonize a particular group of citizens and place all blame for the nation's ills upon their shoulders. You should pick some group like the "Religious Right" or "Christian Conservatives". This procedure worked well for the Nazi's with the Jews and the tactic undoubtedly will work well again.

Thanks to Ron Bill

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Pledge of Alliegence

His wife and their daughter attend church in the town where they live. His estranged wife teaches Sunday school. His daughter said she would say "Under God" under her breath if it was outlawed. This is NOT in the public media.

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How about tackling the ridiculous bill that Rich Gephart is introducing wherein we should grant legal status to all the illegal aliens in the U.S. I assume this includes all those Cubans that Castro sent over here when he emptied the jails & prisons in Cuba, unidentified Al -Quida & other rubbish that have entered the country illegally.

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Liberal

"The liberal is continually angry, as only a self-important man can be, with his civilization, his culture, his country and his folks back home."

"His is an infantile world view. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats."

"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless."

- P.J. O'Rourke

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While listening to the Rush show today, I found the debate centered upon gun control and the general lies, misdeeds, and untruths which the left-wing media regurgitates ad infinitum.

Yet, the lies, misdeeds, and villainous actions of the liberal elite extend further than repeating the words of Beelzebub. The left-wing in it's assault on the constitution also strikes directly at citizens who strive to defend this Republic through public forums.

As a student at an elite international business school located in Arizona I founded a student club dedicated to exposing foreign and domestic students to all things Americana. One event scheduled was a trip to a shooting range in which students would be trained in safety and procedure in firing weapons. I hoped with this event to promote the long tradition of America's culture in lawfully orienting the uneducated and ignorant to the rights, responsibilities, and duties of firearm ownership.

For my effort the school placed me on a list as "a dangerous antisocial!" Furthermore, the school administrative authorities followed up it's discriminatory behavior when it helped successfully orchestrate with several other left-wing students a campaign to ruin my reputation, slander my name, expel me from school, and limit my liberties as an American citizen.

All this occurred as a backdrop to the Littleton massacre. While soccer moms and liberal dads screamed for protection of the children and liberals both Republican and Democrat sought so called solutions, we had our rights and liberties again taken away a "Little" at a time. Worse, innocent people like me had their lives destroyed in the leftist witch hunt which followed.

Thus, the efforts of the liberal elite to eliminate opposition extends further than seeking to control the debate. In times of crisis they use any means possible to start witch hunts, pass overweening legislation, and extend the surveillance state. Such activities extend to pernicious persecution of not only the powerful but those who are weak and dare to speak out publicly against the leftist assault on our Constitutional rights such as myself.

All of my fellow conservatives have heard of attempts by liberal elitist schools to limit the publication of conservative viewpoints. However, it appears with my situation that the assault now extends to active elimination of conservative individuals from higher education.

Rush, conservatives must not only become aware of the lies liberals speak, but of the means liberals use to destroying those who believe in the Republic. Al Gore and his ilk are not stupid. Nor are they ignorant of the Constitution and the gun control laws in existence. Rather they are fully aware of the Constitution and the rights it gives us. That is why they seek to destroy it. In fact, not only do liberal Al Gore look alikes seek to destroy the constitution but they also seek to destroy in the media, at universities, and in the court houses those who believe in lawfully defending those rights.

I was one of those weak but conservative defenders of the constitution. For my belief in the 2nd Amendment and my attempts to help others lawfully and legally through an authorized school club exercise the 2nd Amendment, I was termed an "antisocial" and summarily drummed out of the school. Let not this happen others, pass the word on, be on guard all conservatives.

Sincere dittos,

Reynold

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Reparations for Afro-Americans??


I'm uncertain how many Union soldiers lost their lives in the Civil War. Certainly, the thousands of deaths were sufficient "reparations" for the freed slaves. In fact, the move to get reparations seems to cheapen the sacrifice of those who died and were wounded in the fight to gain freedom for Blacks in America.

Edmond

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Moon Landing/ Abraham Lincoln

I cannot speak to people's motivation, but a couple of weeks ago I came home from work and my 12, 10 and 5 year old sons were lying in wait for me. They had seen a TV show that proved man had never landed on the moon. Even the 5-year-old quoted parts of the program that disproved it ever happened. They went on for nearly 40 min. quoting the show. I quietly listened; when they finished I said the following. Yes I do believe we are being deceived, yes I believe a great lie is being told. Everything you (speaking to my sons) have been told has been attacked. You have been told there is no God, you have been told truth is relative, there is no universal truth, you have been told sex is free and fun. It seems to me someone is trying to cause you to believe in nothing. Then you will act in a way they want you to, by telling you want they want you know. It seems to me all the truths and facts of your ancestors has been disproved, so what are you to believe in?

I am not surprised Lincoln will discredited too. I also know that if one of my children died (as Lincoln's did) I would be depressed, even if I was the President of the United States.
Love, Peace and Joy, Ron Campbell
Gal.5:22-23

Catholic Campus Ministries

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Tom Daschle

For the last few months I have really become more and more disgusted with Tom Daschle and Dick Gephardt so I have written them this letter although I am certain it is like talking to a sack full of hammers. " Dear Mr. Daschle, I registered as a democrat at the age of 18, I fought in the Vietnam war, and I am proud to live in America, However, it is beginningto make me sick to my stomache to listen to you and Dick Gephardt. Of all the time that we the people need our senators and congressmen to unite is now!! You two, hung on to the pant legs of the most lying, nasty and possibly traitorous president, ie. Bill Clinton, this country has ever known, yet when we finally get rid of that scrurge and get a man who seemingly wants to return integrity and a willingness to do something for the good of the people all you can do is critisizw and ridicule the man. For gods sake man! get behind our new president and support tax relief and his energy policies."

Please encourage each and every one of your listeners to e-mail Daschle at daschle.senate.gov/webform.htm. Maybe the socialist party (democratic party) will get it if enough of us critisize and ridicule them the way they do President Bush. Thank you for your continued efforts to advise and educate the liberal of this country.

Best regards Len O. Hannaman

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Having never done this before, here goes. I like to think of the republicans and democrats as in a criminal trial. The republican as the prosecuting attorney and the demo as the defense attorney, the republican stands up and tells how it is, straight out.(this is the way it is). Then the democrat gets up and says whatever he has to (lie,cheat,dream up,concoct a story) to convince you he is right. Kind of like the O.J. thing.

Ron
Monmouth, Ore

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As a tax slave in Massachusetts, I hope you can take time to help me to expose the Irish aristocracy (Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and much of the entire Great and General Court of Massachusetts) -- exposing them amongst their brethern serfs. I need my freedom. Bring on the Irish Consulate to your program. I like the way Ireland is thumbing its nose at socialist Europe and winning.

Arthur from Belmont

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How Liberals are Changing America

I wish to share with the reader my deep concern for the future of my country. I am old enough that I probably will not see the end game, but my children will and I fear for them. We are in the middle of a mad dash towards a society that is both oligarchic and fascist. Oligarchic because we will be governed by a ruling elite who have found the means to perpetuate themselves in office almost limitlessly and fascist because the means of production and distribution will remain privately owned but will be rigidly controlled by the central government. We will continue to have private property but it's use will also be rigidly controlled. All of the taxes will be paid by a voting minority who will have no power to change anything. The liberal democrats will be ensconced in the White House and will have control of both the House and the Senate and will retain control in perpetuity.

Incumbent in this society will be a loss of our freedoms. Radio and television will be broadcasting government propaganda to support the new status quo and those who resist will be repressed by firm sanctions (think of George Orwell). Government permission will be required for almost any use of private land (in the public interest, of course). The right to own firearms will be gone (for public safety). Schools will all be subtly teaching children to believe that the government knows best what is good for them (as most already are). The freedom to make basic life choices will have seriously eroded (because of the constantly expanding bureaucracy which justifies it's existence by writing regulations that are both burdensome and constraining)

In the end the government "benefits" to the least productive among us and the vast bureaucracy that administers them will be an unbearable financial burden to the few who are left paying taxes. The tax burden will be so high as to remove the incentive to innovate, create and produce and goods and services will diminish as will the taxes that are imposed on both the goods themselves and the labor to produce them. All the while there will be an increasing demand by those who do not pay taxes to have more and more benefits from a government which will attempt to provide those benefits by imposing ever more controls on the means of production and increasingly higher taxes on those who are left paying them. Such a cycle of events can only result in collapse of the system, and collapse it will.

I personally believe that it is too late to stop the picture that I have described from becoming a reality. Everyone behaves at all times in there own best interest. That includes you and me and all politicians and all other citizens too. I cannot determine that any of the major participants in this are doing anything other than acting in what they perceive to be their own best interests. The only salvation can be in persuading more people that determining their own best interest involves considering the long term as well as the short term and the negative as well as the positive aspects of the things they wish for and the choices that they make.

George Kenneth Payne

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Democratic Leader Richard Gephart,

I should start by saying that I am not a Republican, but an Independent. I am also not a huge George Bush fan, although I do fall to the Republican dogma more often than the Democratic on key issues. But no, I am not a zealot by any stretch of the imagination. I recently realized what I am.

I am a card carrying, extremist, hardcore, anti-Al Gorist........and I'll tell you why. At first, the blatant hypocritical fog he is trapped in amused me somewhat. After all, here is a man who is so confused about who he is, is never the same man twice day to day; making it easy to change positions since what he said last week was Thursday Al Gore and today we have a new man, Tuesday Al Gore, that it must be tough to maintain any consistency. Yes, I found it amusing. I was skeptical but pleasantly surprised when he announced that he would accept the results of the election in the state of Florida and promised not to contest the outcome. I guess he forgot the "if I win part". None of this really bothered me. When he assumed the position of all votes must count, and our Constitution demands our voices be heard equally, I thought OK.

Of course, I had to ignore the fact that the voices of the three heavily democratic counties he was attempting to mine votes from counted just a bit more than the rest of us. Still, I thought 'well he has a right to his position and I'll respect it'. When he lost the tally for the second time on the recount and demanded a selective hand recount, I thought, 'good strategy, wake up Republicans, you're getting outfoxed'. When he wasn't successfully mining the votes he needed and changed the standard to counting dimpled ballots and I saw canvassing boards giving him votes that he didn't have because the rest of the ticket had voted democratic................he began to lose me. When he sent out a four page paper on how to deny military votes and supported a lawsuit in Seminole County to exclude 4000 completely legitimate votes because the county screwed up and didn't provide a place for the voter registration number - smoke started coming out my ears.

Congratulations, Al Gore, you took a somewhat disinterested moderate, and in a few short weeks turned him into a man with the determination and zeal to actively oppose your continuation in professional politics. You have been able to do what the most persuasive speakers cannot; motivate me enough to go out of my way to see your political career comes to an end by whatever means are legally within my power as a citizen. I applaud you for an accomplishment that just two short months ago I would have bet money would not be possible.

Sincerely,

David / Chicago, IL

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Rush, you have said it is easy to be a Liberal (leftist). However, I disagree. I believe it is the most difficult thing in the world to be a Liberal if you have any assets. If you are a leftist and you have a new car, why a new car, why not a used one and take the rest of the money and give it to the needy? If you have a house, why not a less expensive one and give the rest to the needy, or better yet pay the mortgage for a needy family to have a house. If you send your child to private school send them to a public school and take the money and give it to the needy. Basically if you are a leftist and you live above the level of bare existence you are a hypocrite as you are not helping all those needy people by giving away your assets.

I went for years not bringing this point up to one of our Liberal (leftist) friends. My wife would not let me bring it up. Finally I was fed up with their liberalism and asked why did they just buy a new computer when they could have taken that money and given it to the needy? The response I received was not a debate on their beliefs but a tearful "Do you think I am a bad person?".

I think every time the Gores, Clinton's, Daschle's, Gephardt's and reporters of this world bring up the poor unfortunate people we need to ask them why they do not take their personnel wealth and give it away!

Mark

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Lunatic-- Barbara Boxer(alias Senator) is at it again. Boxer now wants to add 28000 square miles of national lands to the "wilderness" category. This will only make a bad situation worse. I just retired after 41 years from the Calif. Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and each year the fires burn hotter and more intense than the year before. As a professional fire manager(Unit Chief of the Amador El-Dorado Unit) we have been trying to expand the use of thinning and fuels management to lessen the fuel loading to reduce the energy release and give firefighters a better chance to contain a fire at minimal damage. Restrictions on thinning and logging coupled coupled with not being able to due prescribed fires to reduce the fuel loading have set the stage for holocaust. What we see now in Colorado and Arizona and in recent past in Montana, Idaho. Oregon. Washington not to mention the fire prone king California is only going to get worse. Putting more land into "wilderness" status only worsens the situation . The use of mechanized equipment such as fire engines and bulldozers is prohibited unless authorized by the Forest Supervisor. Unfortunately they are under tremendous pressure not to due so and usually firefighters are losing the battle (getting their ass kicked) before authorization is given. It's fighting fire with one arm tied behind your back. People don't understand the other consequences of big fires. Lose of protective cover means erosion into streams, excessive mud slides in winter.economic loses due to lost recreational opportunities, and on and on. Resevories become filled with silt and debris and water supplies and purity are at risk. I'm the President of the local water district board of directors(El Dorado Irrigation District) and I am very concerned about the Boxer bill because it will hamper fire control operations near much of our water supply not to mention the potential damage to the coveyence system. This nuttiness has to stop or we will see bigger and more damaging fires year after year' burning up more homes, more timber, more down stream(ancillary)damage costing billions to mitigate. The Congress and the State Legislators need to know what's coming and it's not pretty. A 2000+ degree crown fire is unbelievable to see but it's damage is by our own making.
George

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I have copied a section of JFK's inaugural speech. I thought you might like to remind liberals what their guru said about where our rights come from.

Have fun. Mega dittos.

Kristin
We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom--symbolizing an end as well as a beginning--signifying renewal as well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forbears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe--the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage--and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

This much we pledge--and more.

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As most conservative Americans (make that patriotic as well), I am very concerned about how many of our rights are being taken away from us through laws that I believe are unconstitutional.

In reality the socialist, totalitarian, psuedo-intelectual, liberals who are the architects of such laws, are nothing more than American TALIBANS, trying to limit our freedoms in the name of their one world, one thought metality. They are terrorists against freedom, mis-using the law in order to their effect injustices upon the American people.

Tempe, Arizona recently passed a law making it illegal to smoke in public. I have never been a smoker, however I resent the rights of others being infringed upon.

I have been told that Monterey County, California has a similar restriction upon drinking alcoholic beverages in public, including drinking in your own yard, or in your own garage with the door open. You have frequently mentioned other restrictions either already in effect, or in the works.

Our right to keep and bear arms has been heavily infringed upon many times over. Socialist, totolitarian, psuedo-intellectual idiots, calling themselves Americans constantly try to make laws telling us what is best for us, from what to eat, to the requirement to exercise if we want health benefits from our privately paid for insurance, to wearing seat belts even if the belt causes pain, or because we consider them unsafe as do many emergency professionals. It goes on and on. This, all because they say that they know better than the common person or the conservative.

The liberal courts constantly throw out good, long standing, conservative laws, yet they refuse to look into the constitutionality of these idiotic, freedom restricting laws.

Thank you for your watch dog eyes and ears upon these infringments. Keep us informed. Plead on your program, in your publications and in interviews for conservative Americans to actively persue legal remedies to these unconstitutional acts, and to rid our country of the power of these unpatriotic if not traitorous Americans, through peer pressure and elections.

Respectfully,

Byron / Williams, Arizona

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I am so weary of hearing about the terrible shape the economy is in on the news every night. I just tune it out. I have a 401K, but I'm not concerned. Maybe I should be, but I'm only 31 and I figure a lot will happen to it before I reach retirement age. If there is a retirement age for me! It seems to me that if the media keeps shoving 'Doom & Gloom' in our faces every night then we won't feel like going out there and spending. We won't be inclined to invest in the stock market. We'll hoard our money away in our mattresses and that'll be it. I'm not a bit worried. And then of course the Liberal Media will then blame the Bush administration for the down economy.

Scott, Knoxville, Iowa

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Jose Bernado Jr. - A Proud Republican in New Orleans

To be Liberal

*To be a liberal, you have to believe the aids virus is spread by a lack of funding.

*To be a liberal, you have to be against capitol punishment, but for abortion on demand, in short you support protecting the guilty and you support killing the innocent.

*To be a liberal, you have to believe that the same school teacher who cannot teach your fourth grader how to read is qualified to teach you fourth grader about sex.

*To be a liberal, you have to believe that trial lawyers are selfless heroes and doctors are overpaid.

*To be a liberal, you have to believe that guns in the handsof law abiding Americans are more of a threat then nuclear weapons in the hands of the chi-coms.

*To be a liberal, you have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical documented changes in the brilliance of the sun and more affected by Yuppies! driving SUV's.

*To be a liberal, you have to believe that gender roles are artificial, that being gay is natural.

*To be a liberal, you have to believe that business's create oppression, government creates prosperity.

*To be a liberal, you have to believe that self-esteem is more important then actually doing something to earn it.

*To be a liberal, you have to believe that there was no art before federal funding.

*To be a liberal, you have to believe the military, not corrupt politicians start wars.

*To be a liberal, you have to believe the NRA is bad because they stand up for certain parts of the Constitution while the ACLU is good because they stand up for certain parts of the Constitution.

* To be a liberal, you have to believe that standardized tests are racist but racial set-asides aren't.

 

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We are in a war for the very soul of this nation. Socialists like Gephardt and Hillary will use every means at thier disposal to win. Preident Bush should not use half measures to defeat these people. As a Vietnam veteran I saw the results of half-assed measures. Aggressive leadership is needed now.

David Thorn

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Liberal Sanctimony

It seems to me that one of the basic common traits of liberals is that they're shallow thinkers and disinterested in fact. They never seem to care why a vote was cast, only that if for instance a negative vote on a bill with a "civil rights" inference is cast, the voter must be against "civil rights". It doesn't matter that the bill was totally irresponsible or totally impractical, only that the vote was against a "civil rights" bill.

What's dividing this country is the liberal's ignorant allegiance to their party. Nothing, absolutely nothing, will convince a liberal that the Clintons were and still are nothing but white trash thieves who are laughing at us all the way to the bank.

R.D. Bishop

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I e-mailed the Democrats this morning, Kennedy, Daschle, etc., and explained to them, that an empty barrel makes the most noise! That is what they are, empty barrels, and they are all empty of any ideas on how to better this country. I am up to my eyeballs in taxes and services, and am sick of paying for free loaders. Lost everything in the stock market, have Hillary and Johnny sounds stupid for Senators, and Patrick Laehy for a Senator in a neighboring state. If I didn't live on flat land, I would consider jumping. What choices I have. I can't wait for Novemebr to come, because I and the rest of the family will be in that booth. Louis Slaughter is running again for the US House, and have struck the mother load again!!
I need help!!


Ron

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DEMOCRAT LEADER GEPHARDT CALLS FOR TAX HIKES & DEFENSE CUTS


WASHINGTON (June 2) - House Democrat Minority Leader Richard Gephardt admitted in Philadelphia this week that if the Democrats are returned to majority status in Congress, he plans to raise taxes even higher and further cut America's already hard-pressed defense budget.


Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson says Gephardt's revelations come as no surprise.

"Bill Clinton and Al Gore asked Congress to impose 81 new tax increases this year, and they've eviscerated our national security," Nicholson said. "It's no surprise that a 'Speaker Richard Gephardt' would help a 'President Al Gore' reprise the Democrats' greatest hits."
Gephardt's intentions to raise taxes even higher were reported today in Larry Eichel's "The Body Politic" column in The Philadelphia Inquirer :

"On a visit to Philadelphia last week, Richard Gephardt actually talked about raising taxes.
"The House Minority Leader made his comments in a setting not picked for maximum impact, a midday talk at a Center City bookstore. His audience included Mayor Rendell, a few political junkies and several bedraggled souls seeking shelter from a thunderstorm.

"Gephardt told the assembled non-multitude that if the Democrats take back the House in 2000 and he becomes speaker, he intends to push for much higher federal spending on education.
"And where would the money come from?

"'You've got to have a combination of taking it out of the defense budget and raising revenue,' he said. 'We can argue about how to do that, closing loopholes or even raising taxes to do it.'
"Mind you, his goal in life is not to reinforce the stereotype of Democrats as tax-and-spend liberals. Raising taxes is not his first choice.

"'I feel we can find room in the budget to do what must be done without a tax increase,' Gephardt said. 'But if we can't, well, this is the paramount challenge we face as a society, and I think the public shares that view…

"I'd be proud to vote for tax increases for schools. You bet I would…" (Ellipses appear in the original text).

And remember... Clinton Gore proposed 81 separate tax increases this year, which would have cost our economy $82 billion over 5 years, $172 billion over the next 10 years (The New York Times, 2/2/99, The House Budget Committee, 4/14/99)

In addition to the tax hikes, Clinton-Gore wanted $25.8 billion this year in new "user fees" (USA Today, 2/2/99)

The Clinton-Gore-Gephardt tax hikes happen when federal taxes are already eat up a bigger share of this economy than at any time since World War II, as a percentage of GDP (House Budget Committee, 2/3/99)

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Gray Davis - Governor of California
Date: Wed, Oct 30 12:01 AM

I am a california native as was my dad my kids and grandkids but i swear if Gray Davis is re-elected i am out of here. I have worked since I was 17 years old and supported my 3 kids as a divorced woman for 14 years without any help from anyone, as I should have. I paid over $300 a month for health insurance alone for my kids and I worked at the hospital the insurance was with, but everytime I saw some welfare mom come through the place with
her medi-cal card I wanted to scream. I voted for welfare reform and was stupid enough when it passed to think the libs would actualy impliment it, ha ha !

In 1999 I was working for a vet at her kennel. I took a job outside my field because I was no longer able to see well enough to drive very far. I took a real bad fall at work, broke both of my wrists and damaged my neck so bad I needed a plate implanted in my c-spine. Right after my fall I found out my employer was not carrying workmans comp. So, I found a lawyer that handled uninsured employers fund workman's comp claims. I don't know if you have heard of it but it is supposed to be the safety net run by the state for employees injured at work by uninsured employers.

What a nightmare it has been. They are supposed to act as the w.c. and they sue your employer to re-coup the funds they expend to help you. I have no doubt they are not always able to recover all the money but it is not fully funded by the state either. Even though they froze my employers assets in the first 6 months, it took them 3 years to approve the 2 wrists and 1 needed; operations i needed to put me back together. It took so long in fact at 46 years old, due to the nerve damage the delay in medical attention caused, I will be in terrible pain every day for the rest of my life. Since I have not been able to work, the uef was paying me $100 a week to live on. I would like to see Davis live on $400 a month. Everytime Davis refuses to sign the state budget, I get $0 to live on, as i have been for the last several
months but those welfare checks go out just like clock work. I was doing the right thing, working, and my employer was doing the wrong thing by not carrying insurance and the state i have paid taxes to for 29 years could not care less.

2 years ago i came across a flyer at the post office telling the welfare bums if they have tattoos the dept of social services would pay to have them removed ! They can not help me but they can pay for tattoo removal !?

Oh and about the welfare reform, a woman at the lodge who has one teenage daughter and when the welfare finaly cut her off, she got a doctor at the local mental health to say she was too depressed to work and she is back on the public dole. she spends her welfare checks on sitting on a bar stool drinking and smoking name brand cigarettes. Of course, she works under the table and has been turned in for welfare fraud but social services could not care less.Is it any wonder everytime I see Gray Davis onTV stating he is for the working Californians, I want to puke !

Charlene Keelin

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John F. Kerry's Record


I think Americans need to be reminded of Senator John Kerry's position on aligning himself with a communist dictatorship and his disruptions against democratic principles. I'm referring to Senator Kerry's position on theViet Nam Human Rights Act HR 2833 which was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, 410 - 1. He is responsible for stalling and killing it in the Senate. Thousands of Vietnamese Americans have suffered and their families are still suffering as victims of the communist regime.

The press would have you believe that this man is a patriot and man of democratic principles. Need I remind you of his leadership of the Viet Nam Veterans Against the War movement, when he and his buddies defied a Supreme Court injunction in April of 1971 for camping out in the Capitol Mall. During this time they tossed their medals and campaign ribbons over the barricade, stating "Here's my merit badges for murder from the country I betrayed by enlisting in the US Army. Do we go from a draft dodger (Bill Clinton) to a traitor (John Kerry) as a presidential candidate? I'm a Viet Nam Vet who was awarded a Bronze Star and worked in an evacuation hospital in Pleiku, Viet Nam. I am appalled that we could even consider someone this despicable for the leader of the Free World.

Ray / Vancouver, Washington

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Maureen Down(d)

Sir;
Has anyone stopped to notice the dearth of political vitriol coming out of Maureen lately? Perhaps her recent visit to the middle east has opened her eyes to just how good she has it in the good old USA

Franklin

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Meet the Press - John Kerry

Too often, politicians toot their own horn but play the wrong song. On Sunday's Meet the Press, John Kerry stated that he had "put away people for life" in reference to the tough decisions made as a prosecutor that he used to support the tough decisions he would have to make as a politician.
Again, the politician has ursurped the power of the people. Kerry must remember that it is the JURY, not the prosecutor, that finds guilt and the JUDGE who applies the law that determines the sentence. Kerry, not to omit him from the process, only argues for conviction based on the evidince at his disposal usually provided from members of his or the firms investigative staff.

Larry

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Dictators in America - Date: Tue, Jan 21 01:11 AM

Did you know that there are dictators in America? You only have to lookas far as Washington State. In the last elections the good voters of Washington voted down a number of taxes and voted in a couple of initiatives. The government of Washington has decided in their infinite LIBERAL wisdom that they will not do away with the taxes and that they will ignore the initiatives. In effect, they are declaring that the voters of Washington State do not have the intelligence to vote in the laws of the state or do away with unfair taxes. This is comparable to declaring a DICTATORSHIP.

Joseph

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Wash. Gov. Gary Locke - Date: Wed, Jan 29 09:21 PM

He has a very large fiscal problem in Washington State and ran Boeing out of Washington, as well as many other substantial Companies. Great (sucessful Democrat) to represent the Demos. in their response to the presidents speech. I live in Idaho, the most republican State and very close to
Wash. State. We are very aware of their problems, mostly giveaways to the poor ? Massive taxes.

Bruce

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Nancy Pelosi
Date: Wed, Jan 29 08:37 PM


As I listened to President Bush's speech on Tuesday night, which I thought was extremely well done, I couldn't help but look out into the audience and see the faces of many of the Democrats who sat stiffly in their chairs. The camera shot the face of Nancy Pelosi just as she was sneering, almost laughing at some of the comments our President was making. If this is the newly chosen leader of the Democratic party, they are in bad shape. What poor taste she showed. I would have thought that a Senator would have the decency to show respect for the President at such a national forum as the State of the Union. She should be ashamed of herself and an embarrassment to the Democratic Party.

Sincerely, Judy

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California Fiasco

I've wonder why no one wishes to bring up the following. After the current election here in California people elected almost a completely Democratic slate. Much of the populous felt that good about either candidate and the lies generated by Gray Davis defeated the Republician candidate at the polls. But then just after the election and Four years of a Democrat leadership it became apparent that those in control discovered a 36 billion dollar shortfar in the state income. DUH! After all because of the leadership and California is in control of liberal Democrats (Fienstein/Boxer/Willie Brown/Davis) who hired an additional 43,000 with very liberal retirement benefits 80% after 20 years of employment.
It is not too difficult to figure out that benefits cause overbudget expenses. was disappointed on Talkback that the Republican narrator didn't challange Willie Brown about some of this last night.

Dan

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A Washingtonian responses to Gov Gary Locke's fraud Below is a letter I sent our Gov regarding his response to the President:

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Dear Governor Locke,
The family and I listened intently to the President's address and your response. While I don't agree 100% with the President, I was shocked and saddened by your response--it was so fraudulent. I thought you had more integrity than what was displayed. Some items we were grieved about:

ECONOMIC RECOVERY
Gary, you and your constituents have made this one of the top ten states NOT to do business in. In a recent survey of 287 corporate executives, Washington State ranked as one of the worse states to do business in. You and your constituents have chased Boeing out, shut down the Pulp and Paper Industry, shut down logging, slammed the fishing industry and did little to late to contain the riots during the WTO meeting.

WASHINGTON-A PLACE FOR OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUR GRANDFATHER Gary, I think your Grandfather would be disappointed with the condition of this state. He came to a state that provided opportunities..you and your constituents have shut it down. Good thing he came here a 100 years ago.

EDUCATION
You chastised the President about education, yet earlier this month you had 25,000 angry teachers at your door protesting your positions. You are a fraud. Where is your integrity? Or are you the next shining star in the Democratic galaxy? Is this more important to you than integrity?

GOD BLESS AMERICA
Governor, how can you with a straight face ask God to bless America when you just last week met with NARAL and declared together your support of the abortion of thousands and millions of children. I was talking with a business fellow yesterday at lunch and he was telling me how excited he and his wife were at hearing the heart beat of their 10 week embryo.

Gary, I hope and I pray that God will make your heart bigger than a 10 week embryo...that you will have compassion for the lives of the pre-born and that you will see thru the scam of NARAL and NOW. (Or is it just politics as usual--where is your back bone.) You have been duped. Both Roe and Dolton of the abortion rights laws are now strongly prolife. I pray that you will cross the divide that separates life and death.

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S. Edwards and malpractice
Date: Mon, Jan 06 01:25 PM

Sunday S. Edwards blamed the insurance companies for mishandling their investments, which resulted in increased malpractice premiums. Then, how come, insurance rates vary so much from state to state?

Jerald

 

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Little Dick Gephardt

I wish someone would show the tape from 92 with Little Dickie and his pal Clintoon, when they stood on the Capital steps and Clintoon was introduced as the new president. Little Dickie said "now it's time to go to work". What the hell was he doing in the congress all that time, sitting on his hands? Remember back then the economy was bust for a while, the company I worked for had gone out of business and I went from $175,000.00 a year to the unemployment line for 10 months! What the hell was Dickie doing to help anyone.
Regards, Mike

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govenor Rendell of pennsylvania - Date: Mon, Apr 07 2003

We have a newly elected liberal governor of Pa. by the name of Edward Rendell. His idea of stimulating Pa. is legalizing gambling, and over taxing. He is the definition of liberal. His gambling ideas will gather the criminal element and stimulate poverty to all those who become adicted to gambeling. Please direct some of your comments toward Ed Rendell, he truely stands opposite of our conservative God fearing beliefs. Thank-You Rush for making a difference.

Scott, Pittsburgh, PA

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Name Dropping

"It is hypocritical of Sen. Robert C. Byrd, West Virginia Democrat, to call President Bush's landing on an aircraft carrier 'flamboyant showmanship.' After all, this is from the senator who insists that just about every tree planted, road paved or building erected in his home state - financed with federal funds - be named after him. Perhaps Mr. Byrd is only upset that Mr. Bush did not land on the USS Robert C. Byrd."

- James Terpening, Washington Times, 5/11/03

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